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  2. Web chat - Wikipedia

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    Web chat. A web chat is a text-based system that allows users to communicate in real-time using easily accessible web interfaces. It is a type of Internet online chat distinguished by its simplicity and accessibility to users who do not wish to take the time to install and learn to use specialized chat software. [1]

  3. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...

  4. Online chat - Wikipedia

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    Online chat is any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other participants to respond quickly. Thereby, a feeling similar to a spoken conversation is created, which distinguishes chatting from other text-based ...

  5. WebChat Broadcasting System - Wikipedia

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    WebChat Broadcasting System, or WBS for short, is a virtual community created during the 1990s. Supported by online advertising, it was one of few services at the time to offer free integrated community services including chat rooms, message boards, and free personal web pages. Extremely popular during the mid to late 1990s in the era prior to ...

  6. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. . It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologi

  7. Internet Citizen's Band - Wikipedia

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    Internet Citizen's Band (better known as ICB) is an early Internet chat program and its associated protocol. It was released in 1989. It was released in 1989. [1]

  8. Mibbit - Wikipedia

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    Mibbit is a web-based client for web browsers [2] that supports Internet Relay Chat (IRC), [3] Yahoo! Messenger, [4] and Twitter. [5] [6] It is developed by Jimmy Moore [7] and is designed around the Ajax model [8] with a user interface written in JavaScript. [2] It is the IRC application setup by default on Firefox .

  9. IRC - Wikipedia

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    IRC ( Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, [1] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages [2] as well as chat and data transfer, [3] including file sharing.