Virtual Place Chat

http://www.vplacelive.com/chat/

Welcome to #vBulletin / VP Chat - an open, private chatroom on IrCQ-Net. Double click #English for a more popular chatroom and double click #OpHelp for general help. Type: /j #vPlace or any other room you want to join. Happy chatting.

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Chat

This article explains textual communication on the Internet. Chat (from English; verb: to chat) refers to electronic communication between people in real time, mostly on the Internet. An earlier form of chat was in the 80s on the radio.

Types of Chat

The original form of Internet chat is pure text chat, in which only characters that can be exchanged. Meanwhile, depending on the system, a sound and/or video track could replace text chat. This is called "audio chat" or "video chat".

Chats which have more than two chatters are found in chat rooms. According to a survey by the Federal Statistical Office for the first quarter of 2006, 39.6% of the over ten-year-olds use Internet chat forums as a means of communication. The use of Internet-based chat increases with the level of educational.

Today, technically speaking, there three main chat formats:

1. The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) - born in the 80s. It requires its own chat server; these servers are usually networked (IrCQ-Net is the IRC Network accessible from the Flash client above). Client software required (such as mIRC or X-Chat - downloadable programs on the client users' computers, or a web-based Java or Flash clients accessible from within a web browser). For control of the client and the IRC servers, special IRC commands are used.
2. The World Wide Web, for example, with the software already in a Web browser, plugged directly into the HTML. The drawback, however, is that Web chats are mostly limited to particular sites. This is often integrated with live help and support systems, sometimes incorporating services such as VoIP (Voice Over IP).
3. IM (Instant Messaging). When instant messaging, chat is generally not in a public channel, but only between those who have installed the appropriate software on their computers.

IRC and instant messaging include many special functionalities such as the creation of chat logs (interview protocols), or the transmission of data and hyperlinks. What all three versions of chat have in common is that chatters are usually not represented by their real name, but by a pseudonym (nickname or alias). In IRC and Web-based chat, the exchange in chat rooms is mostly categorised under specific topics.

To get some infos about the web, webmaster related issues or more help, have a look on the following sites:

Wikipedia: IRC Channels Deffinition / Chatroom Deffinition / Webmaster Deffinition 

Internet Forum Deffinition / Blog Deffinition