X-Nico

unusual facts about chat rooms



Identity tourism

Therefore, being able to 'tour' the internet with a new identity opens the possibility of the net being an identifiable space, where 'locations' such as chat rooms, forums, MUDs, MOOs, and other such participatory mediums can become destinations and sites of innovative play.


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Child grooming

In 2005, Yahoo! chat rooms were investigated by the New York State attorney general's office for allowing users to create rooms whose names suggested that they were being used for this purpose.

Chris Ferguson

In college he honed his skill on IRC poker playing poker online for play money in chat rooms.

Err-chatbot

Traditionally those chat bots were used over the IRC networks (see Internet Relay Chat bot) as opposed to XMPP chat rooms or corporate chatrooms like Hipchat/CampFire.

Friend a Soldier

Friend a Soldier was founded in 2010 by IDF Special Forces veteran Daniel Nisman and IDF infantry veterans Joshua Mintz and Yagil Beinglass following their experiences debating and discussing the Israeli Palestinian conflict online in chat rooms and forums.