The Chatting feature of the Internet lets you instantly communicate with people anywhere in the world by sending and receiving messages in real time. Using IRe you can also converse on the Net with more than one individual simultaneously. IRC is a chat protocol that uses the Internet to exchange text messages among users.

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Chat room is the hub of Internet chatting. A chat room is actually a computer {chat server} that allows many persons to log on at the same time. When you enter a chat room, you see the names of the people who are already there, and a window in which a few lines of text are constantly moving upwards. These lines are the messages being sent by various members of the chat room to their chat partners. Once you join a room, you can read other person's messages and then send your messages to one or all the chatters. Every chatter has a login name, which he uses for his identification, and whatever is typed appears in the general conversation window. However, if you want to chat with only one chatter, you and that person can enter a private room to have a private conversation. Broadly, there are two categories of chatting, discussed here under.


(a) Text-based Chat: It is the oldest. the simplest and the most popular mode of chat on the Internet. This mode

enables you to communicate, through messages, with one or more persons. During chatting when you type text in the message window, the text appears on the computer screen of every person participating in your conversation (that is, the individuals that are there in the message window). The text gets transferred quickly across Internet.

(b) e-based or Multimedia Chat: In this type of conversation, you make use of multimedia. e-based chat enables you to have voice conversations with your friends through live video over the Internet. Since sound and video signals get transferred slowly across the Internet. it is recommended that you use a high-speed modem for e-based chat.