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Online chat is any kind of
Online chat in a less stringent definition may be primarily any direct text-based or video-based (
History
The first online chat system was called
The first online system to use the actual command "chat" was created for The Source in 1979 by Tom Walker and Fritz Thane of Dialcom, Inc.[2]
Other chat platforms flourished during the 1980s. Among the earliest with a
The first transatlantic Internet chat took place between
The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980,[5][6] created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio. Ancestors include network chat software such as UNIX "talk" used in the 1970s.[citation needed]
Chat is implemented in many
Chatiquette
The term
Chatrooms can produce a strong sense of online identity leading to impression of subculture.[13]
Chats are valuable sources of various types of information, the automatic processing of which is the object of chat/text mining technologies.[14]
Social criticism
Criticism of online chatting and text messaging include concern that they replace proper English with shorthand or with an almost completely new hybrid language.[15][16][17]
Writing is changing as it takes on some of the functions and features of speech. Internet
With the increasing population of online chatrooms there has been a massive growth[19] of new words created or slang words, many of them documented on the website Urban Dictionary. Sven Birkerts wrote:
"as new electronic modes of communication provoke similar anxieties amongst critics who express concern that young people are at risk, endangered by a rising tide of information over which the traditional controls of print media and the guardians of knowledge have no control on it".[20]
In Guy Merchant's journal article Teenagers in Cyberspace: An Investigation of Language Use and Language Change in Internet Chatrooms; Merchant says
"that teenagers and young people are in the leading the movement of change as they take advantage of the possibilities of digital technology, drastically changing the face of literacy in a variety of media through their uses of mobile phone text messages, e-mails, web-pages and on-line chatrooms. This new literacy develops skills that may well be important to the labor market but are currently viewed with suspicion in the media and by educationalists.[18]
Merchant also says "Younger people tend to be more adaptable than other sectors of society and, in general, quicker to adapt to new technology. To some extent they are the innovators, the forces of change in the new communication landscape."[18] In this article he is saying that young people are merely adapting to what they were given.
Software and protocols
The following are common chat programs and protocols:
- AIM(No longer available)
- Camfrog
- Campfire
- Discord
- XMPP
- Flock
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk (No longer available)
- I2P-Messenger (anonymous, end-to-end encrypted IM for the I2P network)
- ICQ (OSCAR)
- ICB
- IRC
- Line
- Mattermost
- Apple Messages
- Teams
- Paltalk
- RetroShare(encrypted, decentralized)
- Signal (encrypted messaging protocol and software)
- SILC
- Skype
- Slack
- Talk
- Talker
- TeamSpeak (TS)
- Telegram
- The Palace (encrypted, decentralized)
- WebChat Broadcasting System (WBS)
- Windows Live Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger (No longer available)
Chat programs supporting multiple protocols:
- Adium
- Google+ Hangouts
- IBM Sametime
- Kopete
- Miranda NG
- Pidgin
- Quiet Internet Pager
- Trillian
- Windows Live Messenger
Web sites with browser-based chat services (also see web chat):
- Chat-Avenue
- Convore(No longer available)
- Cryptocat
- eBuddy
- FilmOn
- Gmail
- Google+ (No longer available)
- Chat Television (No longer available)
- MeBeam
- Meebo (No longer available)
- Mibbit (No longer available)
- Omegle (no longer available)
- Talkomatic
- Tinychat
- Tokbox(No longer available)
- Trillian
- Userplane (No longer available)
- Woo Media (No longer available)
- Zumbl (No longer available)
See also
- Chat room
- Collaborative software
- Instant messaging
- Internet forum
- Online dating service
- Real-time text
- Videotelephony
- Voice chat
References
- ^ "PLATO | computer-based education system". Britannica. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MULTILINGUAL CHAT APPLICATION". nairaproject.com. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Molly McKinney (19 November 1998). ""Sell a Couch or Make a New Friend: Broadcast Provides Potential Mind Games and Hookups." The Wooster Voice, November 19, 1998, p.8". The Voice: 1991-2000. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- ^ "The 'Security Digest' Archives (TM) : TCP-IP Distribution List for February 1989". securitydigest.org. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "CompuServe Innovator Resigns After 25 Years", The Columbus Dispatch, 11 May 1996, p. 2F.
- ^ Mike Pramik, "Wired and Inspired", The Columbus Dispatch, (Business page), 12 November 2000.
- S2CID 233987188, retrieved 1 November 2021
- ^ "IRC Chatiquette – Chat Etiquette". Livinginternet.com. 28 November 1995. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ "BBC - WebWise - How do I use instant messaging (IM)?". Uits.uark.edu. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ISBN 0-13-110546-9
- ^ "Electronic Discourse - On Speech and Writing on the Internet - 3. Internet Relay Chat Discourse". Epubl.luth.se. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ CNET reviews - comparative reviews - chat clients - chatiquette The Internet Archive
- ^ Regina Lynn (4 May 2007). "Virtual Rape Is Traumatic, but Is It a Crime?". Wired. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Texor". Yatsko's Computational Linguistics Laboratory. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ^ Zimmer, Ben. Language Log: Shattering the illusions of texting Archived 16 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, University of Pennsylvania, 18 September 2008.
- ^ Liberman, Mark. Language Log: Texting and language skills Archived 15 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine, University of Pennsylvania, 2 August 2012.
- ^ Zwicky, Arnold. Language Log: The decline of writing in Dingburg Archived 16 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, www.aarichats.comUniversity of Pennsylvania. 19 September 2008.
- ^ a b c Merchant, Guy . "Teenagers in cyberspace: an investigation of language use and language change in internet chatrooms." Journal of Research in Reading. 2001, Vol. 24, Iss. 3, ISSN 0141-0423.
- ^ Topping, Alexandra (10 June 2009). "'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016.
- ^ Birkerts, S. "Sense and semblance: The implications of virtuality." In B. Cox (Ed.), Literacy is not enough. Manchester University Press. 1998