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If daytime TV doesn't fit into your schedule or you can't get the 24-hour sci-fi channel, never fear. The web has plenty of its own steamy soaps, twisted mysteries and chilling thrillers. Last time I counted, there were 74. Some of them are even pretty good! Click on a category below.




20 something hipsters

101 Hollywood Blvd.
Young, funky filmmakers frolic in LA (isn't that what they always do?). This site is great for those who are crazy about the movie biz or brewpubs -- for some reason, both figure prominently.

East Village, The
Enter the last bastion of Bohemia through the trials and tribulations of 20something Manhattan hipsters living the life.

Geek Cereal
Lose yourself in someone else's drama through these short glimpses of San Francisco life. Sometimes truth is duller than fiction.

Lake Shore Drive
Create your own character, and play a cameo role in this Chicago-style "Melrose Place."

MelrosEast
Get past the unimaginative name, and find a funky, funny, well-written cybersoap about young hipsters in NYC that's a bit more -- well -- personal, with the characters' journal entries as narrative.

Pulse, The
Cute 20somethings find even more cute 20somethings in a NY brownstone. (Perhaps Orkin should address this problem...)

SF Blend
Follow the personal lives of young-and-beautiful San Francisco lifestylers.

Spot, The
Sexy babes of both genders living in a Hollywood beach house tell their tales of tangled affairs, failed careers, deceit and treachery.

Threads
Pick a story thread and see where it takes you in this cybersoap featuring -- surprise! -- young hipsters in NYC.

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gay 20 something hipsters

770 Oceanwalk
You, too, could become a character at the Fire Island time-share that houses this gay-themed drama. Send your comments, and get your beach clothes ready!

Dyke Street: A Soap
Dyke drama meets the cyberworld.

Gay Daze
We're here, we're queer, and we're fa-ha-habulous! See the saga of a doctor, a dancer, a lover, a loser, a father and a "natural" woman unfold in gay LA.

Java Jabber
Follow the drama of three gay guys and one straight girl living in a house in the suburbs with only one bathroom.

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as the office turns

475 Madison Avenue
Word on the Ave. has it that the goings-on at this supposedly fictional Manhattan ad agency are on-target enough to have some *real* Madison Avenue players squirming and others snickering in amusement.

Cretins, Inc.
Giggle fiendishly as you find your way around the stunningly incompetent corporate headquarters of BilgeCorp.

Journal of a Short-Timer
Read the weekly journal of a disillusioned teacher in a hard-knock high school.

So@pNet
Real events allegedly influence the dramas that unfold at a fictional software company.

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our town

East Hampton Rag
Follow mysterious happenings and shady characters through the haunts of East Hampton, NY.

Pop. 89
Life in the tiny town of Coldwater, Ohio (pop. 89) centers around the Dreamland Movie Theater and the Hollywood flick that was never made.

Telluride Avalanche
Hot-to-trot ski bumbs turn snow into slush in this Colorado resort town (and, yes, you can get daily ski conditions, too).

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real people

III:am
Do you ever wonder what people do at 3 o'clock in the morning? Find out in these interviews with real people on the street at 3 am.

t@p Virtual Dorm
Peer into the lives of real college students via journal entries, CU-SEE-Me, screen grabs and chat sessions.

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sci-fi cyberthrillers

Above the Unicorn
Be part of a group that's genetically creating superhumans to replace corporate employees.

Brentwood
This Real Audio techno-murder mystery generously includes a script-like text version. (That way, you're boss won't know you're catching up on the action at work!)

Crystal Planet
Sci-fi adventure abounds on the planet Meridius.

EON-4
It's Earth after the discovery of extraterrestrial life, with plenty of technical wizardry and serious sci-fi.

Generation War
This cyberpunk sci-fi drama set in the very scary future, filled with live actors, digital sets and special effects has been called the first made-on-a-PC movie.

Lurker Files, The
The Lurker controls the minds of college students in an online chat room. Beware!

Media Secrets
A male/female team of reporters uses hackers to get info to create breaking headlines.

Root
An artificial life form who's been around for four millennia plays at games of chance as multimedia pushes his sci-fi adventures.

Techno3
Could this techno-thriller featuring three hot babes and the evil cyber-lord who controls them be the "Charlie's Angels" of tomorrow?

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mysteries

Cracks in the Web
Follow Flap Jack through this well written, detail-driven weekly spy thriller.

Heart<BR> Hotel, The
Enter different rooms of the VRML whodunit hotel.

Kapow
Snoop around the web and greater LA solving nutty mysteries with bumbling super sleuth Mace Broade and his sidekicks.

Letters from Abroad
Online crime-solvers get a shot at a London vacation.

Scrolling Mystery Theater
Creative use of frames showcases detective fiction and thrillers.

Strange Case of the Lost Elvis Diaries, The
Get your online comic mystery with overtones of "The Maltese Falcon."

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thrills/intrigue with a twist

Black City
Meet the inhabitants of the darkest place on the Web, a mysterious noir city somewhere south of....

Candidate 96
You're a secret agent keeping an eye on Presidential candidate Jack Parrish and a whole cabinetful of skeletons in this high-tech, cat-and-mouse drama.

Club MODE
Fashion, clubbing and intrigue meet in this after-dark cyberdrama.

Club SALSA
A mysterious drama unfolds with the help of some very cool artwork and a customized database application.

Daisy's Amazing Discoveries
Some very creative Finnish folks cook up a beautiful, ethereal, insanely impossible story.

Dreadnot
Enter the realm of the mind-messing thriller -- complete with chilling graphics -- that's actually creepy enough to avoid before bedtime.

Generational Break
A group of hackers attempt to bring down the government of a heavily-armed Latin American Republica.

In the House of Dreams
Go to modern-day Salem, Mass., for a supernatural drama featuring streaming sound, three-dimensional imagery and an ending that you get to decide.

Madeleine's Mind
Explore the depths of dreams, visions and madness in a Shockwave environment.

Pyramid, The
Something shady's going on at the Global Oasys (Ontological Automata Systems) Corporation.

Waste L.A.
Check out scenes from a comic-book-noir featuring a guy who does NOT love LA.

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traditional soaps

Affairs of the Net
Intercept the email messages of a couple in love.

ALT.DAYS
The storylines of the online, alternate version of "Days of Our Lives" have nothing to do with the TV drama, though some of the characters are the same.

As the Web Turns
Get your online dose of an old-fashioned style soap.

Chiphead Harry Daily Soap
The bizarre murder (or maybe not) of cyber-millionaire Chiphead Harry grips techno-town.

Crescendo Cove
Enter the Lois-Lane-and-Clark-Kent like saga of Bolt Fastener magnate Steel Bolt and the women who love him. This larger-than-life story is a fresh breath among the 20something neighbor and cyberspy clones.

Ferndale
Four people open their lives to the public as they share their problems over the Internet.

FollyWorld
Follow the characters of "Guiding Light" as they romp through alternative storylines.

Moms' Night Out
Three best friends in Northern Calif. live their "Only In Marin" lives.

O'Brien's Cafe
Rumors fly about the staff and regulars at O'Brien's Cafe, as the cat in the corner bums a cigarette.

Oakdale 2
See the characters of "As the World Turns" in situations you won't find on TV.

Southerners, The
Follow the lives of downmarket urban Londoners around their favorite hangouts.

St. Cyberburg
A virtual city is the setting for this interactive cyberdrama.

Stepstones
Take an intriguing, intimate look at the lives of the Stepstones Family of Long Island, NY, and their friends.

Zoloft
Join the inhabitants of a very strange, future (?), 1984-ish world.

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travel adventures

Caravan, The
Groupies and their favorite bands travel between the concerts of this interactive cyber-roadie drama.

Hell's Buddhas
A group of adventurers touring India on classic motorcycles, for spiritual and recreational reasons, create this unique documentary.

Mongolia '96
Follow the adventures of a group of television journalists making a series of documentaries in Mongolia.

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something different

Diary of a Madwoman in the Attic
Read the diary entries of a woman delving into her own mind.

Food Tales
At last, something different! It's a creative interactive drama that features a different recipe in each chapter, Wine Valley Radio and dozens of tasty food links.

GrapeJam
Join the Grapes, an interactive comedy troupe, as they unfurl their Southern California yarn.

Loser Living Upstairs, The
Get bizarre updates on the guy in the upstairs apartment.

Maintenance Men's Lounge
You might not be able to follow the story, but you'll have fun trying to sort through this chaotic sitcom environment with its grainy, stammering streaming video and mumbled audio.

Mudders
A transplanted New Yorker/single mom finds herself in the Southern world of Monster Trucks.

Rhino Beach
In this Animal Farm-esque serial, the characters -- all members of the animal kingdom -- romp around the Rhino Beach Club in a tropical island setting.

Squat, The
Sick of the slick sophisticates inhabiting the Spot? Sneak a peak at the squalid squatmates in this trailer park parody.

Shakespeare's Diary
Visit the Renaissance Faire that never ends.

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Is your favorite cybersoap missing from my list? Let me know.

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