Chapter 14. How Internet Chat and Instant Messaging Work
One of the most immediate ways to communicate with others via the Internet is to participate in live chat. Chat doesn’t refer to people actually talking to each other and hearing each other’s voices. Instead, it means that you hold live keyboard “conversations” with other people on the Internet—that is, you type words on your computer and other people on the Internet can see those words on their computers immediately, and vice versa. You can hold chats with many people simultaneously all over the world.
A number of ways are available to chat on the Internet, but one of the most ...
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