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lots of errors and it does not make sense... I would have fixed it but was not sure what it is supposed to be communicating preciselyAnn Vole (talk)11:35, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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 withe-mail, but not to distinguish one from the other.Diego Moya12:14, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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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.Natcolley07:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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I think chatroom (or chat room) is a generalnon-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. -Paul21:48, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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A chat room is an umbrella term for any system where the norm is for people to converse as a group - it's people chatting in a (virtual) room. Instant messaging is typically a one-to-one system; you can get IM software that will also allow you to add people to a conversation and talk between more than 2 people, but it's geared up for small and private rather than more public group conversations. --82.70.156.254 (talk)01:36, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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. --Shinmawa21:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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 avoidbuddy list chat. What is your opinion ? --Serenity-Fr00:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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 precedingunsigned comment was added by86.130.202.123 (talk)23:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
someone vandalised two sections, reverted them back to original136.206.1.1711:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
On (2007-03-01T05:31:00) 190.49.150.84 addedphpMyChat GPL/GNU opensource phpMyChat Project to the External Links. It doesn't fit the other links as they all talkabout chatrooms, not implement them. One would have to make a fair list of software, which I guess already takes place inonline chat and inweb chat site. The latter seems more fitting. --lynX22:33, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
when was this first used? did "chat room" come before or after IRC "channel"?—Precedingunsigned comment added byPete Iriarte (talk •contribs)
"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)[reply]
Now come on, who put the post that citations are needed? Some things are common knowledge, something as simple as a chat room does not require the citations that other subjects do. Like it would be ridicules to need a citation when stating that the Titanic was a ship or George Washington was a president.
From reading the 'activities' section you'd get the impression that 99% of all chat rooms are only there for cyber sex and swapping nude photos (cited from the Daily Mail)! I've reordered and neatened it up a bit; moving 'sex' and 'games' into subsections. If anyone can think of any other good examples of things that could go into the 'activities' section (live online debates with famous people, perhaps?) it could do with a bit more padding. --82.70.156.254 (talk)01:36, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
tags need working in process. --71.173.75.231 (talk)01:01, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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I was surprised to see that we have no article (or even mention) ofgraffiti walls, which preceded the generation of more interactive web-based mediums likeYahoo! Chat in the mid-1990s. — C M B J 09:59, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There was a wiki page under my name (Jahanshah Javid) as the founder of iranian.com. That page no longer exists. How can I find out why this happened?JahanshahJavid (talk)04:04, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
