autistic social software   (link)

http://www.danah.org/papers/Supernova2004.html
While "social software" has recently emerged as a phenomenon in the tech community, sociable media has been around since the beginning of the Internet. Email, BBS, Usenet, chatrooms, MUDs and MOOs all captured the imagination of technologists throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Alongside the development of these technologies, academics and pundits spouted off about the utopian dreams that could be fulfilled by these innovations. Their prescriptions mirrored the particular concepts set forth by science fiction, often without the richness that the writers were trying to convey. Idealists envisioned a world where physical identity would not matter because online, no one would know that you're a dog.