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24 years. Our product line includes creating turn key solutions
for online dating sites.
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it useful and informative.
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is online chat?
Online chat is a generic term for what are now mostly known as instant
messaging applications—computer programs that enable two-way
typing to connect users to each other.
However, there are net dating systems and other online services
that do not use these applications to provide chat facilities, e.g.,
Delphi, often relying on HTTP-based protocols instead. Sometimes
these are called a chat room or chat extending the physical metaphors
of 'sites' and 'magazines' which many web services exploit.
Today there are many chat rooms, some incorporating instant messaging
features without having to install additional chat software. These
chatrooms often have friend finders built in.
Some of these systems also provide telephone voice mail access.
These are usually known generically as just chat systems.
A chat log is a record of a chat. Sometimes this is put on the
web.
The earliest online chat system widely used was probably the Unix
talk facility. The earliest one in general use was likely the French
Minitel. During the 1980s, online chat was made available on CompuServe
and DDial servers, and later on GEnie. In 1988, Internet Relay Chat
(IRC) protocol, an instant messaging tool, was developed and became
the de-facto standard for online chat.
Discussion boards
Besides real-time chat, another type of online community includes
Internet forums and bulletin board systems (BBS's), where users
write posts (blocks of text) to which later visitors may respond.
Unlike the transient nature of chats, these systems generally archive
posts and save them for weeks or years. They can be used for technical
troubleshooting, advice, general conversation and more.
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