In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible to socialize with a whole bunch of friends at a distance, all at once. No ...

Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people to socialize ...

There has been a lot of news lately about sexual predators on the Internet trying to contact kids. Do your parents allow you to use online chat rooms? Why or why not? Do you think it can be a ...

Microsoft Comic Chat was launched in 1996. It was, and remains, a unique online chat client that automatically created 2D comic book panels for conversations. However, the client was short-lived. On ...