Talk:Chat room

"Graphical multi-user environments" section
lots of errors and it does not make sense... I would have fixed it but was not sure what it is supposed to be communicating precisely Ann Vole (talk) 11:35, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

What is a Chat Room, and how does it differentiate from other IM applications?
Article says "Recently much chat room and instant messaging technology has begun to merge as the dominance of the big three instant messaging providers (AOL, Yahoo and MSN) have tied chat rooms directly into their instant messaging interfaces.". But what *is* the difference between Chat Rooms and IM? An encyclopedic article shoud define it. In both pages emphasis is given on the difference with forums and with e-mail, but not to distinguish one from the other. Diego Moya 12:14, 31 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Does anyone have a history of how chat rooms were first created?


 * It's a big debate in many places I've been to, some people saying that chat rooms were made for people to misspell intentionally, or generally be lazy.


 * It would be very nice to have a sort of history on them, but I have no Googling skills at all, and so I can't seem to find any information... But I have a nagging feeling that one who thinks chat rooms were made for the lazy is dead wrong.


 * A big thanks to anyone who can dig up stuff on the history of chat rooms.--Kenjoki 01:16, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

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I would also like to see more information about the varieties of, and differences between, chat software, especially for the webmaster. Natcolley 07:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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 * Article says: A chat room is an online forum where people and purves and paedophiles can chat online. WTF???
 * That was vandalism. Already solved. My first revert!!

I think chatroom (or chat room) is a general non-technical term, popularised by the media. Technical folk tend to say exactly what they mean: IRC, Instant Messaging, Web forum, Usenet News, or whatever. Not sure how to phrase that though. - Paul 21:48, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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A chat room is an umbrella term for any system where the norm is for people to converse as a group - it's people chatting in a (virtual) room. Instant messaging is typically a one-to-one system; you can get IM software that will also allow you to add people to a conversation and talk between more than 2 people, but it's geared up for small and private rather than more public group conversations. --82.70.156.254 (talk) 01:36, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

UNIX and IRC
The article erroneously remarks that IRC was part of a standard UNIX build. This is incorrect. While most IRC servers and their early clients were primarily written on and for UNIX systems, neither were included in any standard UNIX distribution. I've removed this part of the article. -- Shinmawa 21:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC) hello. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.65.238 (talk) 13:52, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Random chat
I think it would be interesting to tell something about random chat (chat to unknown random people). ICQ has made an option to random chat  but it's not very popular , whereas there are some other attempts ... This kind of chat is a way to avoid buddy list chat. What is your opinion ? --Serenity-Fr 00:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Graffiti on the page...???
This is my first Wikipedia comment, so please forgive me if I fail on netiquette.

I noticed two apparent bugs on this page which appear to be some kind of "Graffiti" Part way down, "Smelly Poopers" appears in line with the text under one of the sections.

Some time later, it appeared to have disappeared. Maybe just a glitch, but it seems unlikely to be random. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.130.202.123 (talk) 23:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

someone vandalised two sections, reverted them back to original 136.206.1.17 11:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * It happens a lot here. No need to discuss it, just go ahead and remove the vandalism.  You might also want to notify the vandal with the appropriate warning.  There may be enough vandalism to request semiprotection Requests_for_page_protection. --Ronz 16:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

List of Chat room software!?
On (2007-03-01T05:31:00) 190.49.150.84 added phpMyChat GPL/GNU opensource phpMyChat Project to the External Links. It doesn't fit the other links as they all talk about chatrooms, not implement them. One would have to make a fair list of software, which I guess already takes place in online chat and in web chat site. The latter seems more fitting. --lynX 22:33, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Etymology?
when was this first used? did "chat room" come before or after IRC "channel"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pete Iriarte (talk • contribs)

This comment needs to go
"Chat rooms are a alternative (not always postitive) to real life acitivites!" I'm getting rid of that one. If anybody has any objections, post them here. DancingWithTheStarsGuy (talk) 17:39, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Common knowledge
Now come on, who put the post that citations are needed? Some things are common knowledge, something as simple as a chat room does not require the citations that other subjects do. Like it would be ridicules to need a citation when stating that the Titanic was a ship or George Washington was a president.

Chat Rooms and Cyber Sex
From reading the 'activities' section you'd get the impression that 99% of all chat rooms are only there for cyber sex and swapping nude photos (cited from the Daily Mail)! I've reordered and neatened it up a bit; moving 'sex' and 'games' into subsections. If anyone can think of any other good examples of things that could go into the 'activities' section (live online debates with famous people, perhaps?) it could do with a bit more padding. --82.70.156.254 (talk) 01:36, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you! People are of the opinion that Wikipedia should be here to scare parents and their children into thinking the internet is out to get them. - BalthCat (talk) 10:26, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

a mess.
tags need working in process. --71.173.75.231 (talk) 01:01, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Graffiti walls
I was surprised to see that we have no article (or even mention) of graffiti walls, which preceded the generation of more interactive web-based mediums like Yahoo! Chat in the mid-1990s. —  C M B J  09:59, 22 May 2013 (UTC)