Online Chatting (Details) Online Chatting enables Internet users to exchange text with groups of people in real time (line by line, or sometimes letter by letter).

The user's web browser is used as the client software.  Java Application is often downloaded into the web browser to enable this function.  You will only be able to chat with users who are connecting to the same server.  There are chat sections on all kinds of web sites such as stock investing, sports, news, etc.  To try web based chat, you can go to chat.yahoo.com. or chat.msn.com

Internet Relay Chat is defined by networks of servers which communicate to each other.  Users connecting to any of the servers should e able to chat with everyone else on that entire "network"  You must download a client application to participate.   Users have the ability to revert to a peer to peer communication using MSG and DCC command (direct client communication) -

• NewIRCusers.com - a great starting point
• IRCHELP.ORG - Another great starting point - includes resources such as The IRC Prelude , An IRC Tutorial , etc.
• mirc home page  - home of popular IRC client and provides good description of the newsgroups.
• ICQ - a very popular Chat client that also keeps tracks of when you friends are online.  ICQ can be used to launch most other types of peer-to-peer communications.
• How Instant Messaging Works (from howstuffworks.com)

Software Resources: See Getting Software  page.

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