A chat-room is like a public room with a number of people in. You can either talk to them directly, person-to person in a private conversation not visible to others, or you can talk in a channel or chat-room (the words are inter-changeable ). Put in the simplest terms, Online Chat is a means of conversing in real-time via your computer keyboard and screen with anyone else on the internet. Email was the first big thing but it is rapidly being overtaken by instant messaging (IM) and online chat. All around the globe, people in their millions are getting online and connecting with others.
Personal computing and the internet have made possible the biggest and most liberating revolution in personal communication the world has ever seen.
this article goes way back to around 1997, so the technology is very archaic, but it’s informative and funny enough that we keep it live for posterity!) A non-too serious primer for the bewildered on the pleasures and pitfalls of online chat
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