What was the first chat program?
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Well that is a very hard question to answer. \n\nBut here's the history.. lol\n\nIn the beginning when I first started to communicate on the internet we used what is now referred to as Bulletin Boards.\n\nIt was a forum type chat.\n\nThen came IRC.  Which is Internet Relay Chat. \n\nThis allowed you to type LIVE to someone else. Although in the beginning it was strictly text, it has since grown with many options. This was back at least 18 years go. \n\nBut the FIRST Actual Instant Messenger, that compared to MSN and Yahoo, was a program called POW WOW by Tribal Voice. \n\nI heard about that site by someone I used to talk to in IRC, and went to check it out.  Back then to be able to voice with someone, and to use wav files and share pictures or files, was something totally NEW, and people Flocked to the site. \n\nI was on Pow Wow for about 9 years until the company sold it to a private company, and it would no longer be offered for free, and was going to be used for offices so they could communicate with each other. \n\nThat had to be around 1997 or 98, because that's when I came to Yahoo. LOL  It was another NEW program out there very different from what it is today.\n\nThere may have been other programs out there, but these are the ones I know about.
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the earliest online process
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whats the chat line??
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If you want a private chat with a friend or client on you Network, you don't need to download any fancy program! \nAll you need is your friends IP address and Command Prompt.\n\nFirstly, open Notepad and enter:\n\n@echo off\n:A \nCls\necho MESSENGER \nset /p n=User: \nset /p m=Message: \nnet send %n% %m% \nPause\nGoto A \n\n\nNow save this as "Messenger.bat". Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see:\n\nMESSENGER\nUser:\n\nAfter "User" type the IP address of the computer you want to contact. \nAfter this, you should see this:\n\nMessage:\n\nNow type in the message you wish to send.\nBefore you press "Enter" it should look like this:\n\nMESSENGER\nUser: 56.108.104.107\nMessage: Hi\n\nNow all you need to do is press "Enter", and start chatting!
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In 1971, the first e-mail was typed into the Teletype terminal connected to the Digital Equipment PDP-10. \nThe message was transmitted via ARPAnet, the progenitor of the Internet, to the PDP-10 in front. Dan Murphy, a Digital engineer, sent that.
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Java chat has been closed by yahoo , u still can use chat 2.0 or download Yahoo Messenger to chat
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Yahoo messenger\ngoogle talk\nskype
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there are so many ways and programs to chat.  Just try some of them, yahoo, msn messenger, trillian just to name  few
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Try this:  http://www.researchhaven.com/Chat.htm
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http://www.ker95.com/chat101/html/abbreviations.html\n\nbrowse that site. its got everything
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Yes, on the main Yahoo page click on the Chat link.
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You really don't have to know programming .. Simplest way is to search '' free chat room '' or '' Flash Chat room'' in yahoo or google.
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at yahoo\nat msn\nat rediff\nat sify\nat indyatimes\nat aol\nat icq\njust register and start chattin!!
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The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally inter-connected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept. \nIn late 1966 Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the "ARPANET", publishing it in 1967. At the conference where he presented the paper, there was also a paper on a packet network concept from the UK by Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury of NPL. Scantlebury told Roberts about the NPL work as well as that of Paul Baran and others at RAND. The RAND group had written a paper on packet switching networks for secure voice in the military in 1964. It happened that the work at MIT (1961-1967), at RAND (1962-1965), and at NPL (1964-1967) had all proceeded in parallel without any of the researchers knowing about the other work. The word "packet" was adopted from the work at NPL and the proposed line speed to be used in the ARPANET design was upgraded from 2.4 kbps to 50 kbps. \n\nIn August 1968, after Roberts and the DARPA funded community had refined the overall structure and specifications for the ARPANET, an RFQ was released by DARPA for the development of one of the key components, the packet switches called Interface Message Processors (IMP's). The RFQ was won in December 1968 by a group headed by Frank Heart at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). As the BBN team worked on the IMP's with Bob Kahn playing a major role in the overall ARPANET architectural design, the network topology and economics were designed and optimized by Roberts working with Howard Frank and his team at Network Analysis Corporation, and the network measurement system was prepared by Kleinrock's team at UCLA.
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Yes chat is available.
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Try Yahoo! Chat, Mr. Original!
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Install the Java Plugin:\nhttp://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp\n\nInstall this, java sites/programs/chats should work