Chat
Chat
and Chat Room
A place on
the Internet where people go to "chat" with other people in an enclosed
space called a chatroom. Technically you are typing at each other. There
are thousands of Chat Rooms, and can be found in different mediums called
a Chat Client. The rooms are usually organized by topic. For example in
the Melbourne Room you would expect that most of the participants in the
room are probably from Melbourne or in a Gay room, where you would expect
to be the chatters to be homosexual males, the participants are usually
gay or friends of. When you're in a Chat Room you can view all of the conversations
taking place at once on your screen. You can also get into a private chat
room (another screen or window) where only you and one or two others may
talk. Sometimes called a whisper. Internet chat can be an inexpensive way
to keep up with friends and relatives who are online.
Client
A software
program that is used to contact and obtain data from a Server software
program on another computer, often across a great distance. Each Client
program is designed to work with one or more specific kinds of Server programs,
and each Server requires a specific kind of Client. A Web Browser is a
specific kind of Client.
Chat
Client
There are
many programs/software to use for chat. By far the simplest and most popular
is ISeekYou (ICQ) The next most popular client is IRC (Internet Relay
Chat) these are huge servers that 'hold' thousands of chatrooms all organised
alphabetically in subject/interest. The Australian Personals Network had
their own channel on the server Oz.Org it looked like this #aus.personals.
Chat Software
ICQ
ICQ
http://www.icq.com or http://web.icq.com/
127,255,220
ICQ Users Worldwide. A chat client created by Mirabilis and taken
over in 1998 by AOL, it a chat program easily installed that sits on your
desktop, and you can 'chat' while you work by chatting to individual people
one at a time. Think of it like a switchboard. You can also have an ICQ
Chatroom, but these can be full screen, and therefore less popular, than
the smaller, non-invasive popup box.
ICQ Hoaxes:
The Following info came from Mirabilis (1999) and is still applicable.
"From
time to time rumors and hoaxes are spread over the ICQ network. Usually
these rumors are unfounded. Our veteran users already got used to these
kind of hoaxes and simply ignore them. If you are disturbed by these rumors
you can put your wwpager and email express on the ignore list. If you get
such messages from your friends, please ask them not to disturb you with
this kind of communication and to refrain from forwarding them toyou in
the future. If you get these messages from strangers, you can put them
on your ignore list. If you are really disturbed by it and you are not
on "authorize" mode, change your privacy mode to "authorize". Read
our Security
and Privacy Tutorial to see how.
ICQ
white Pages
Whitepages
Advanced Search
Whitepages
by Interest
Phone Number
Search
Web Front
& Homepage Directory
User's ICQ
Unified Messaging Center
.
IRC
Internet Relay
Chat Basically a huge multi-user live chat facility. There are a number
of major IRC servers around the world which are linked to each other. Anyone
can create a channel and anything that anyone types in a given channel
is seen by all others in the channel. Private channels can (and are) created
for multi-person conference calls. Internet Relay Chat is among the oldest
chat networks, with channels in 60 countries. It was started by Jarkko
Oikarinen of Finland in 1988. and improved on for mass use by mIRC. mIRC
is software developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey in the UK. There
are thousands of IRC channels, also called chat rooms. On Oz.Org on any
night there are about 2,000 Channels. These chat rooms typically
focus on specific topics, issue or commonality.
MIRC
Download mIRC
from http://www.mirc.com/
PIRCH
-
Download pirch
from: http://www.pirchat.com/
or http://www.pirch.com
IRC
Messenger Interface to the IRC network that lets you chat efficiently
using a straightforward Messenger-style interface.
IRC
Toons. With IRC Toons you can create an animated character by
assembling various bodies, hair styles, clothes, etc You can walk around,
shake hands, hug, kiss, high-five and wave. Use it to chat and interact
with others on the Internet.
mIRC
IRC chat
mIRC
Stats IRC chat logging system.
Visual
IRC
Other
Chat Software
Cheeta
Chat A Yahoo/ICHAT plug-in program. Works in YahooChat or Ichat, as
long as you are already registered on either one.
Christian
Command A script for mIRC that includes Bible Verses.
Desktop
Mingler Instant Message Software specifically for Singles.
Digi-Chat
EZirc
GtIRC
ICQ
IRC
Messenger
IRC
Toons
Ircle
Keltik.Net
Multi-room chat service.
Lycos
Chat A multitide of chat rooms with a large variety of topics.
Maestro
Instant Messager.
Maxxchat
mIRC
IRC chat
mIRC
Stats IRC chat logging system.
MSN
Chat And Communities
OpenChat/2
OptiChat
OptiChat offers a chat room package, either hosted on their servers, or
yours.
PalmIRC http://members.tripod.com/~hokamoto/PalmIRC.html
Chat client for the Palm Pilot.
Peace and
Protection. http://www.pairc.com/pnp/ Almost identical to mIRC.
PIRCH Very
popular IRC Client. http://www.pirch.com/ Download it here: http://www.pirch.com/cgi-bin/slock.cgi?user=pirch98
ShadowIRC
Snak
Talk City
Visual
IRC
Xchat
For Linux Operating Systems.
YAHOO!
Chat
Ychat
Macintosh
clients
Ircle
Ircle is one of the best IRC chat clients.
ShadowIRC
A new MacOS IRC Client.
Snak
An IRC Client for Macintosh.
OS/2 clients
EZirc
PM IRC client for OS/2.
GtIRC
OS/2 IRC Client with support for REXX command scripts.
OpenChat/2
32-bit, multi-threaded PM IRC client.
