Chat Room

A Chat Room is a Place where People can interactively discuss some Topic by means of posting, reading and replying to Chat Room Messages

• AKA: Online Chat Room.
• Context:
  • It can contain Chat Room Messages.
  • It can involve Interactive Communications.
  • It can be Public.
  • Its messages can be regularly purged.
• Example(s):
  • The Canada room at ICQ http://www.icq.com/icqchat/chatroom.php?c_id=32
• See: Bulletin Board, Internet Relay Chat.

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References

2009

• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_room
  • The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology ranging from real-time online chat over instant messaging and online forums to fully immersive graphical social environments.

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