Talk:Chat room

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Article says "Recently much chat room and instant messaging technology has begun to merge as the dominance of the big three instant messaging providers (AOL, Yahoo and MSN) have tied chat rooms directly into their instant messaging interfaces.". But what *is* the difference between Chat Rooms and IM? An encyclopedic article shoud define it. In both pages emphasis is given on the difference with forums and with e-mail, but not to distinguish one from the other. Diego Moya 12:14, 31 August 2005 (UTC)


Does anyone have a history of how chat rooms were first created?
It's a big debate in many places I've been to, some people saying that chat rooms were made for people to misspell intentionally, or generally be lazy.
It would be very nice to have a sort of history on them, but I have no Googling skills at all, and so I can't seem to find any information... But I have a nagging feeling that one who thinks chat rooms were made for the lazy is dead wrong.
A big thanks to anyone who can dig up stuff on the history of chat rooms.--Kenjoki 01:16, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

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I would also like to see more information about the varieties of, and differences between, chat software, especially for the webmaster. Natcolley 07:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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Article says: A chat room is an online forum where people and purves and paedophiles can chat online. WTF???
That was vandalism. Already solved. My first revert!!


I think chatroom (or chat room) is a general non-technical term, popularised by the media. Technical folk tend to say exactly what they mean: IRC, Instant Messaging, Web forum, Usenet News, or whatever. Not sure how to phrase that though. - Paul 21:48, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] UNIX and IRC

The article erroneously remarks that IRC was part of a standard UNIX build. This is incorrect. While most IRC servers and their early clients were primarily written on and for UNIX systems, neither were included in any standard UNIX distribution. I've removed this part of the article. -- Shinmawa 21:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Random chat

I think it would be interesting to tell something about random chat (chat to unknown random people). ICQ has made an option to random chat [1] [2] but it's not very popular [3] [4], whereas there are some other attempts [5]... This kind of chat is a way to avoid buddy list chat. What is your opinion ? --Serenity-Fr 00:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Graffiti on the page...???

This is my first Wikipedia comment, so please forgive me if I fail on netiquette.

I noticed two apparent bugs on this page which appear to be some kind of "Graffiti" Part way down, "Smelly Poopers" appears in line with the text under one of the sections.

Some time later, it appeared to have disappeared. Maybe just a glitch, but it seems unlikely to be random. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.130.202.123 (talk) 23:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

someone vandalised two sections, reverted them back to original 136.206.1.17 11:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

It happens a lot here. No need to discuss it, just go ahead and remove the vandalism. You might also want to notify the vandal with the appropriate warning. There may be enough vandalism to request semiprotection Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection. --Ronz 16:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Chat room software!?

On (2007-03-01T05:31:00) 190.49.150.84 added phpMyChat GPL/GNU opensource phpMyChat Project to the External Links. It doesn't fit the other links as they all talk about chatrooms, not implement them. One would have to make a fair list of software, which I guess already takes place in online chat and in web chat site. The latter seems more fitting. --lynX 22:33, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology?

when was this first used? did "chat room" come before or after IRC "channel"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pete Iriarte (talk • contribs)

[edit] This comment needs to go

"Chat rooms are a alternative (not always postitive) to real life acitivites!" I'm getting rid of that one. If anybody has any objections, post them here. DancingWithTheStarsGuy (talk) 17:39, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

WHEN WILL I SEE MOST OF THE THINGS THAT IS ABOUT THE BEGIN —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.189.65.67 (talk) 06:35, 23 May 2008 (UTC)