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'''Online [[chat]]''' can refer to any kind of [[communication]] over [[Internet]], but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat or [[text-based]] [[chat room|group chat]] (formally also known as [[synchronous conferencing]]), using tools such as [[instant messaging]] applications—[[software|computer programs]], [[Internet Relay Chat]], [[talker]]s and possibly [[MUD]]s, [[MUCK]]s, [[MUSH]]es and [[MOO]]es.

While many of the Internet's well-known services offer online chat and messaging services for free, an increasing number of providers are beginning to show strong revenue streams from for-pay services. Again it is the [[adult service provider]]s, profiting from the advent of reliable and high-speed [[broadband]], (notably across [[Eastern Europe]]) who are at the forefront of the for-pay online chat revolution.

For every business traveller engaging in a video call or [[conference call]] rather than braving the check-in queue, there are countless [[web]] users replacing traditional conversational means with online chat and messaging. Like [[email]], which has reduced the need for and usage of letters, faxes, and memos, online chat is steadily replacing telephony as the means of office and home communication. The [[early adopter]]s in these areas are undoubtedly teenage users of [[instant messaging]]. It might not be long before [[Short message service|SMS]] [[text messaging]] usage declines as mobile handsets provide the technology for online chat.

==See also==
===General terms===
* [[Chatgroups]]
* [[Chat room]]
* [[Instant messenger]]
* [[Live support software]]
* [[Online discussion]]
* [[Online discourse environment]]
* [[Voice chat]]
* [[Voice over IP]] (VoIP)
* [[Web chat site]]

===Protocols/Programs===
* [[AOL_Instant_Messenger]] (AIM)
* [[Campfire (software)|Campfire]]
* [[Google Talk]]
* [[Internet Relay Chat]] (IRC)
* [[Jabber]] (XMPP)
* [[Meetro]]
* [[MOO]]
* [[MUD]]
* [[MUSH]]
* [[PalTalk]]
* [[Pichat]]
* [[PSYC]]
* [[RealTimeQuery]]
* [[SILC (protocol)|SILC]]
* [[Skype]]
* [[Talk (Unix)|Talk]]
* [[Talker]]
* [[Teamspeak]] (TS)
* [[Vivox]]
* [[Windows Live Messenger]]
* [[Yahoo! Messenger]]

===Chat programs supporting multiple protocols===
* [[Adium]]
* [[IMVU]]
* [[Kopete]]
* [[Meetro]]
* [[Miranda IM]]
* [[Pidgin (software)|Pidgin]]
* [[Trillian (instant messaging client)|Trillian]]

===Online Chatting Sites===
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* BobChatter
* FlickIM
* [[Meebo]]
* RadiusIM

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Revision as of 19:51, 6 January 2008

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