Chat Room - Text-based Chat

Text-based Chat

Online chat is a way of communicating by sending text messages to people in the same chat-room in real-time. Some chat rooms such as Yahoo! use both text and voice simultaneously. The oldest form of chat rooms are the text-based variety.

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