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What Chat Room Dating has to Offer


Through the technology of computers and the web, a distinct form of communication has sprung: online chatting. And as is typical of humans, where there are two or more gathered romance is soon to blossom from the scenario. Yet this particular scenario has very distinct parameters: communication is done through text, therefore the chatter’s physical characteristics (short or tall, blue eyes or brown eyes, skinny or plump, black or white, etc.) are not necessarily responsible for the interest of the chatter on the other side of the screen. The only characteristic that he or she has to go on is the words typed into a text box. What further distinguishes these chat relationships is that, though they are based on text just as mailed correspondence is, the communication occurs in real time. ...

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CB Radios to Online Chatting: A Brief History


We usually poke fun at the few remaining, non-semi-truck drivers who persist in owning and using a CB radio. Few realize, though, that CB radio, or citizens’ band radio, is the great-grandfather to synchronous conferencing, also knows as online chatting. In 1980, CompuServe executive Alexander Trevor unveiled to the public the CompuServe CB Simulator. CompuServe, the first major commercial online service provider for the United States, created the program with the then popular CB radio in mind; the program had forty “channels,” based on the number of channels used by CB radio, as well as CB radio’s controls such as “squelch,” “tune” and “monitor.” The CB Simulator laid the foundation of today’s online chatting in many important ways, particularly in its use of channels; the forty channe...

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