Here is a list of the major communities. Remember, these are not always indexed completely and sometimes not at all by the major search engines. They are also highly uncommecial because of their nature. For those reasons they are a good place to find hidden data, leads, resumes and links to our targets.

• Byte: That's the famous magazine along with PC Mag are the most popular and widely read IT and PC related magazines. Many technocrats link to them from their websites or blogs. Find out who! Click here and enter one or two skills keywords (for example Corba, Java, or Perl) to find homepages of people linking to those two publications! [netscape users click here]
• CompuServe: People who have been online with CompuServe tend to have been around for a while!
• Google (was Deja): Google has archived all the Deja News Group discussions. NEW now you can search 700 million messages dating back to 1981 in all the categories that Deja once held, plus all the new ones. Google keeps Usenet on the web alive and well.
• Fortune City!: Very interesting home pages. Many programmers reside here.
• Forum One: A list of all Forums, one of which may relate to your type of people!
• GeoCities: Now a Yahoo! community. Yahoo and Google search these homepages.
• ICQ: One of the most popular instant messaging tools using IRC protocol. People frequently list their profiles here.
• ONElist now Yahoo Groups, these "eGroups" are also mailing lists. Unlike Google Groups this is not Usenet. Yahoo Groups host discussion lists and forums. Search on thousands of subjects and find groups who discuss them. Click here for my favorite recruitment related groups. There are groups for almost any topic. Search by topic like: SONET, ASIC, Optical, Pharmaceutical, QA, Supply Chain, Logistics, etc.
• Talk City: An independent community, like theglobe.com. Many personal home pages here!
• Tripod & Angelfire: Both sites are part of the Lycos network.
• Usenet: This is a paid service that offers access to the entire Usenet universe of 80,000 newsgroups - not just the ones listed on Google. There are different levels of access from $9.95 to $39.95 and there is a 30 day trial.
• WebRing Webring has spun off on its own again, away from the Yahoo network. Search thousands of technical, professional and personal interest communities on the Webring network. Webrings are sites linked together and connected by a common subject. Try it!
• RingSurf: - 22,000+ rings boasting almost 224,000 pages in Feb. 2002. New rings are added at a rate of almost 1,000 per month.