Play
ChatChat.
Description: A multiplayer game about being a cat.
Instructions: Be a cat.
(By Terry Cavanagh, who brought you
VVVVVV).
posted by nobody
on Jan 27, 2012 -
33 comments
"
On GChat, I type many things – sincere and not – that I would never say in person because it’s easy, when typing certain things into a box, to forget whom you are typing to." From
Thought Catalog, writer Caroline Bankoff lists 45 things she thinks about when she thinks about google's chat service.
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posted by Potomac Avenue
on Jan 6, 2011 -
34 comments
"
Places like Picher are why Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980—better known as the Superfund bill." - Wired Magazine on the most toxic town in America,
Picher, OK , and
the people who still live there
posted by The Whelk
on Sep 5, 2010 -
21 comments
Aardvark is a Q&A chat service that tries find people to answer your questions among your friends, friends of friends and people who know something about your subject. In practice it's a bit like Ask
Omegle.
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posted by The Devil Tesla
on Nov 8, 2009 -
38 comments
Matthew Weigman, a fat, blind kid, started phone
swatting when he was 15. Three years later, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison. His exploits include trying to initiate phone sex with Lindsey Lohan, sending swat teams to people's homes and gathering confidential information from Verizon and AT&T.
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posted by kylej
on Aug 24, 2009 -
61 comments
Have you been salmoned? I just met a stranger from Denver via the process of salmoning, in which a chatbot initiates an unexpected two-way conversation between two (apparently random) nicks, giving them both aliases ending with "salmon," and leaving both parties confused.
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posted by Mo Nickels
on Jun 14, 2008 -
26 comments
Before instant messaging, before chat groups, before IRC... there was
Diversi-Dial. As the eighties became the nineties, the internet grew, and DDial died. Or did it? More than 20 years later--still at 300 baud and on an original Apple ][e--
DDial lives on!
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posted by not_on_display
on Nov 29, 2007 -
38 comments
Are you Lonely? Curious? Depraved? Do you have questions that are just too risqué for AskMe?
Live Hot Puppet Chat has got your answer.
Yeah baby! Now you can experience sizzling raw, uh, pleasures.
[NSFW]
posted by carsonb
on Aug 4, 2007 -
13 comments
An early VoIP casualty. Think VoIP is a new phenomenon, and talking to people with
Skype or
Free World Dialup is incredible? Ten years ago, Onlive! put the
Onlive! Traveler -- a collaborative VoIP product that's amazing even today -- into beta. With Traveler, a Windows95 (!) PC, a decent graphics card, a SoundBlaster and a dial-up Internet connection, you could not only chat with a friend, but participate in collaborative chats with the avatars of multiple friends in
various 3-D rendered worlds. The
avatars' lips even moved with your voice (.mpg movie). You could talk worldwide, for free. But even though Onlive! was around well before the boom, they were an unfortunate dot-com casualty, as Traveler never quite took off.
Perhaps Traveler was doomed by the limited connectivity available in the mid 90's, or perhaps it was doomed by its
occasionally creepy, fantastic 3-D designs -- but due to a number of
collaborators, the Traveler still lives on today on a
series of servers, and the (free)
software still works on modern Windows PCs.
posted by eschatfische
on Oct 7, 2005 -
13 comments
Google's big announcement due on Wednesday. Google is due to make an announcement on Wednesday of a new service focusing on presence and communication. The word on the internets is that it will be a chat and IM client. Google already has a chat client in the picture sharing app,
Hello, which is available in both standalone install and as part of
Picasa. Possible screenshot of the app is
here, with additional coverage at
BigBlueBall and
Neowin. The prevalent consensus seems to be that it will be (or be based on )
Jabber, (
PDF) with the core innovation being
the use of XMPP.
posted by rzklkng
on Aug 23, 2005 -
122 comments
"Disposable" Instant Messaging. Click a link and chat to someone with just your browser
*. "Include [a link] when you create eBay auctions, Craigslist personals, weblogs, moblogs, personal websites, Friendster, etc. and viewers will be able to contact you instantly."
*Requires Flash.
posted by Blue Stone
on Jul 9, 2004 -
20 comments
The Cybersexual Adventures of J-Dogg
J-Dogg: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears27: Oh, I like to play dress up.
J-Dogg: Me too baby.
BritneySpears27: I kiss you softly on your chest.
J-Dogg: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
BritneySpears27: Hey...
J-Dogg: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite.
(via Harpers)
posted by Ljubljana
on Sep 16, 2003 -
30 comments
Ask the White House - forget fireside chats - e-Government is here! Got a question about judicial nominees, the EPA, the economy? Head to the online White House and ask your questions directly to national leaders. As with any online forum, be sure to check the
privacy policy first.
posted by madamjujujive
on May 8, 2003 -
9 comments
Buddyzoo is an interesting new site that lets you see which buddies on your AIM buddy list your buddies share with you. Sort of like a six degrees of seperation kind of thing. Very neat. Go
check it out and sign up! And tell your friends!
posted by aznblader
on Apr 15, 2003 -
13 comments
Yahoo IMvironments are the latest fad that the company's come up with. It makes your chatting
easier, prettier and more fun - and a lot more bulky and resource hungry. I don't know how many people here actually use Y!, but my guess is this wont take long to disappear.
posted by arnab
on Dec 31, 2001 -
20 comments
Trillian, one of the better chat programs out there, just got better. Version 0.70 is now available and it runs smoothly and looks great.
posted by davehat
on Dec 7, 2001 -
37 comments
'WHOEVER I LENT MY NORD MODULAR TO /MSG ME ASAP' is an
extremely funny fake chat log between the bright stars of the IDM/techno music world. If you're familiar with the music of Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Plaid, and the like, and if you've ever used IRC, then you'll probably get a kick out of this.
posted by 40 Watt
on Nov 2, 2001 -
28 comments
This is cool...and fun...and bizarre!!! I stumbled across this on
ScriptingNews -- so take a look
here first. It's weird -- to say the least-- but it's very cool too... like playing and chatting while you browse (sorta). Anyway, you have to be running msie 5.5 for it to work... and there's a limit of only 15 concurrent users [just beta].
So if you get in, don't hog it! =) And if you can't get in, go dig the demo instead.
posted by blackholebrain
on Sep 20, 2001 -
13 comments
Attention ChatMonkeys. Are you addicted to chat programs? AIM? ICQ? Yahoo and MSN? Even have two instances of mIRC running? Now there's hope. You can have all of these running all at once using *just one program*. And it uses far less resources than all of those other programs put together. matter of fact, i think it uses less resources than icq itself (like that's hard).
It's skinnable too! Score!
/me hands out the needles.
posted by jcterminal
on Jun 12, 2001 -
20 comments
HumanClick. This is cool. This allows you to post a little 'chat link' on your site. You can chat online with your visitors that visit your site. I added it to one of my sites and people just drop by and say hello. They don't need to install anything on the client side. Interactivity always seems to benefit sites.
posted by borgle
on Apr 21, 2001 -
9 comments
