A forum, also known as an internet message board, is a website that’s used to have conversations and exchange information with people across the world. They are different than typical chat rooms as the public messages that are created are typically archived for the entire life of the site. This makes it especially important to [...]
IRC
IRC, also known as internet relay chat, is an open protocol that can be used to create text based chat rooms online. It was created in the late 1980s by a man named Jarkko Oikarinen and was inspired by Bitnet Relay, a popular chat services provided by BITNET. IRC has been famously used during media [...]
Types of Chat Rooms
Chat rooms have long been a staple of communication for many people, since their original inception over 30 years ago. Their popularity has increased as new technology has paved the way for many different forms of chat including text based chat, audio chat and even video chat. Technology has also made it possible for people [...]
How Did Chat Rooms Get Started?
Often times Alexander “Sandy” Trevor is credited for creating the first ever online chat room. Alexander was an executive at the once popular online service CompuServe. He created their very first chat system known as the CB simulator. CompuServe was started in 1969 with the primary mission to provide computer processing services to the Golden [...]