iPedia Free Information Center

Information about Online Chat

This articlearticle or section has multiple issues:
* Its neutrality or factuality may be compromised by weasel words.
* It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources.
* It may require general cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please help [ improve the article] or discuss these issues on the talk page.


Online chat can refer to any kind of communication over Internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat or text-based group chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messaging applications—computer programs, Internet Relay Chat, talkers and possibly MUDs, MUCKs, MUSHes and MOOes.

While many of the Internet's well-known services offer online chat and messaging services for free, an increasing number of providers are beginning to show strong revenue streams from for-pay services. Again it is the adult service providers, profiting from the advent of reliable and high-speed broadband, (notably across Eastern Europe) who are at the forefront of the for-pay online chat revolution.

For every business traveller engaging in a video call or conference call rather than braving the check-in queue, there are countless web users replacing traditional conversational means with online chat and messaging. Like email, which has reduced the need for and usage of letters, faxes, and memos, online chat is steadily replacing telephony as the means of office and home communication. The early adopters in these areas are undoubtedly teenage users of instant messaging. It might not be long before SMS text messaging usage declines as mobile handsets provide the technology for online chat.

See also

General terms

Protocols/Programs

Chat programs supporting multiple protocols

Online Chatting Sites Supporting Multiple Protocols

  • FlickIM
  • RadiusIM
  • Meebo
  • Buddystumbler

Online Anonymous Chatting Sites

  • BobChatter
Chat may refer to:

Conversation

  • Casual conversation.
  • Online chat (synchronous conferencing) in an internet chat room or instant messaging system
  • Bluechat and Wifichat.
  • SMS chat.

..... Click the link for more information.
Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged with each other.
..... Click the link for more information.
Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government
..... Click the link for more information.
Usually used in reference to a computer application, especially a computer game, a text-based application is one whose primary input and output are based on text rather than graphics.
..... Click the link for more information.
A chat room or chatroom is a term used primarily 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
..... Click the link for more information.
Synchronous conferencing is the formal term used in science, in particular in computer-mediated communication, collaboration and learning, to describe text chat technologies. It has arisen at a time when the term chat had a negative connotation.
..... Click the link for more information.
Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.
..... Click the link for more information.
Computer software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some task on a computer system. [1]
..... Click the link for more information.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication and data transfers via private message.
..... Click the link for more information.
For the radio industry magazine, see .


Talkers are chat systems that people use to talk to each other over the Internet. Dating back to the 1980s, they were a predecessor of instant messaging.
..... Click the link for more information.
Mud is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and some combination of soil, silt, and clay. Ancient mud deposits harden over geological time to form siltstone or solid, mudrock lutites.
..... Click the link for more information.
Muck can refer to:
  • Muck (soil), a dirt and water
  • Muck, Scotland, an island in Scotland
  • Muck (gambling), a number of actions (both legal and illegal)
  • Muck (mining), sorting out the rich ore from the poor rock in an underground metallic mine after blasting

..... Click the link for more information.
Mush may refer to:
  • Mush (cornmeal), a kind of corn pudding or porridge
  • Mushing, a sport or transport method powered by dogs or a command to a dog team
  • Muş Province, in eastern Turkey
  • Mush, a 1992 album by the band Leatherface

..... Click the link for more information.
Moo or MOO can refer to a wide variety of things.
  • An onomatopoeia imitating the sound made by a cow
  • Molly Moo-Cow, an animated character dating from the 1930s
  • Moo (Monster Ranchers), a fictional character in the Monster Rancher anime

..... Click the link for more information.
The sex industry is the term given to the industry commercial enterprises which employ men and women in various capacities, generally relating to what is described as adult entertainment or erotica
..... Click the link for more information.
Broadband in telecommunications is a term that refers to a signaling method that includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies, which may be divided into channels or frequency bins.
..... Click the link for more information.
This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.
You can assist by [ editing it] now. A how-to guide is available, as is general .
This article has been tagged since September 2007.
..... Click the link for more information.
ATC (Audio Tele-Conference).

Conference calls can be designed so that the calling party calls the other participants and adds them to the call. In most cases, the participants are able call into the conference call themselves.
..... Click the link for more information.
WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth as the first implementation of what he called "literate programming": the idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding source code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse (as is common
..... Click the link for more information.
E-mail (short for electronic mail; often also abbreviated as e-mail, email or simply mail) is a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems.
..... Click the link for more information.
Diffusion is the process by which a new idea or new product is accepted by the market. The rate of diffusion is the speed that the new idea spreads from one consumer to the next.
..... Click the link for more information.
Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.
..... Click the link for more information.
Short Message Service (SMS), often called text messaging, is a means of sending short messages to and from mobile phones. SMS was originally defined as part of the GSM series of standards in 1985[1]
..... Click the link for more information.
Text messaging, or texting is the common term for the sending of "short" (160 characters or fewer) text messages, using the Short Message Service, from mobile phones.
..... Click the link for more information.
A chat room or chatroom is a term used primarily 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
..... Click the link for more information.
Web chat sites are websites that allow users to communicate in real time using easily accessible web interfaces. They are types of internet chat rooms distinguished by their simplicity and accessibility to users who do not wish to take the time to install and learn to use
..... Click the link for more information.
Voice chat is a modern form of communication used on the Internet. The means of communicating with voice chat is through any of the messengers, mainly Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger or Windows Live Messenger.
..... Click the link for more information.
Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network.
..... Click the link for more information.
Live Support Software is a popular term for instant messaging applications designed specifically to provide online assistance to users of a web site. The software enables the administrator or webmaster of a web site to receive and respond to text communication from multiple users
..... Click the link for more information.
Online discussion is a relatively new form of communication, facilitated usually by computer networks. The first such communications were on bulletin board systems or "BBS's" in the mid to late 1980s.
..... Click the link for more information.


This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the wikipedia encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.
Herod_Archelaus


page counter