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Noun

chat-room (plural: chat-rooms)

  1. A website where visitors can exchange messages by typing them onscreen which makes them appear to scroll by as a conversation develops with other visitors to the site.
Category: Internet

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Wed Jun 10 21:57:51 2009

The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology ranging from real-time online chat over instant messaging and online forums to fully immersive graphical social environments.

Text-based chat

Online chat is a way of communicating by sending text messages to people in the same chat-room in real-time. Some chat rooms such as Yahoo! use both text and voice simultaneously. The oldest form of true chat rooms are the text-based variety. Talkomatic, developed on the PLATO System around 1974, has a strong claim to have been the prototype of the text-only chat room. A notable 1980's text-based chat system was Freelancing' Round table. The most popular of this kind is Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The popularity of these kinds of chat rooms has waned over the years, and IRC's popularity has rapidly given way to instant messaging. Also a notable number of people were introduced to chat rooms from AOL and web chat sites.

There are also graphical user interface (GUI) text-based chat rooms which allow users to select an identifying icon and modify the look of their chat environment.

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Wed Jun 10 21:59:09 2009

Would like to start a website with a chat room?
Q. I would like to start a website that has a chat room. Any advice on a site that I can go to to register the domain, design and host a room with plenty of bandwidth for chatting capabilities? Looking for a site that can do it all.
Asked by Trent T - Sun Aug 24 16:32:47 2008 - - 2 Answers - 1 Comments

A. is the longest lasting and most reliable site for free website tools. I have had one of their guest books on my site since 1996 when I started programming web languages. They put logos on your stuff though. is just for chat, and it's supposed to be pretty good. Has a nice login.
Answered by Rad - Sun Aug 24 16:46:54 2008

How can I enter a chat-room without using my yahoo mail?
Q. When I enter a chat room I just have to click on my yahoo mail, how can I change it, and using like my nickname instead?
Asked by Tequila_sunset - Sun Nov 2 08:51:49 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. i dont think u can
Answered by BXSCI - Sun Nov 2 08:56:11 2008

I am looking to start a new group. Is it possible to have a chat room for groups?
Q. Genealogy groups. Looking to have a chat room for my groups.
Asked by Cari Jane - Mon Oct 20 15:29:55 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Unfortunately Yahoo does not give you that option. You need to use another service for your chat room. You could use the services of BWDP for example Or you could simply look for another site that gives you both services with one membership.
Answered by Ashley Song - Fri Oct 24 10:32:54 2008

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