Comments on: What ever Happened to Chat Rooms?

By: Haxx77

Haxx77 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:42:33 +0000

Back on AOL in the mid-late 90′s chat was booming because AOL sent a CD to every house in the nation up until the early 2000′s not to mentions every new computer came with 3-6 free months. Local chats were awsome if you lived in a populated area. I remember one Xmas party where we had almost 90 people from AOL show up at a small bar. What a party that was. There were several local scenes at area bars created by AOL chat rooms alone, this went on for about 8 years from 96-2004 in my area. Yahoo chat rooms were decent during those times also but not as packed. The first chat room I ever tried was in the mid 80′s on Compuserve. They modeled thier rooms after the CB Radio wich was still big back then. My opinion on why chats died is this. First, we got bored of seeing the same 15 people in a 23 slot chat room every single night. You met half of them and were not impressed. Second, Bots were huge in killing off chat rooms. Once it wasn’t fun anymore you started to look elsewhere for interaction. Thirdly, Age differences. You would chat for 20 minutes with someone only to find out they were 12 years old or 25 years older than you. Fourth, Cell phones an dtexting got big and made people less likely to sit and chat. Lastly, Myspace was where all the chatter went at first. that went on for year Then Facebook and Twitter. I Enjoyed chatting for years, weather or not it ever comes back who knows. I doubt most of us would go back to it.

By: casey

casey — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:22:12 +0000

Ya in the 90s it rocked got AOL after 2.5 went to 3.0 and you were not charged by the hour. AOL 2.5 was like getting a hooker then paying for a room by the hour. At least with a hooker you knew you were going to get laid. Besides being fucked when you got your bill and you realized you were not signed off. After 3.0 it was on. i was online in the chat rooms progging and the oreo prog was the shit. then in the late 90s early 2000s there was yahoo chat. with the booters and the chat room drama and chat basically fuck parties. Wonder how many baster kids were made from those. You knew you had been in when you were back online and away from the huge orgy party the few days before.Some where to afraid to say who they had slept with and you were off on the side chat with them and you were fighting getting booted from the girls bf that you fucked the few days before. that was this guru of programming. so you down loaded this 3rd party chat program so you would not get booted called some cool name that you just deleted a few weeks back because you forgot it was still on your system. Oh the night of staying up late just to watcha chick on cam playing with her cooch because you talked her into it , as her husband slept a few feet away or in the next room while she was in the office. oh the memories…good time good time..

By: Cristian

Cristian — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:14:49 +0000

Yeah, AOL chat rooms got me laid too back in the 90′s. Miss those chat rooms.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:49:28 +0000

Too Funny ! All true, but some of us really enjoyed it, now there is no cybersex, and everything is boring as hell, gone back to formal, suit and tie idiots trying to impress one another with wit, and it is all publically extremely boring, just so we can keep jobs and ego.

By: Salami

Salami — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:57:01 +0000

I actually picked up a chick in a Yahoo chatroom and banged her. It was fantastic. No way that’ll happen again since the robots have taken over.

It definitely all started for me with AOL 3.0. I would hex people’s progs to put my own alias on it, as if I built the thing myself. Pissed many of people off with “my” famous anti-booter. I would get people’s passwords and create my own ID with their membership. Usually get “TOS”d from being in “pic trading” rooms. Good fkn times. I stopped shortly after 4.0 came out though because I started smoking weed, but nevertheless…

I’m sure you have your own story too.

By: David

David — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:14:14 +0000

I always thought they were stupid. Plus, people would sometimes log on to troll and cut in making nasty comments. I used them a few times but got bored with them.

The new social software sites are great, plus you can have more control over haters and people who are creepy.

By: Comrade Smack

Comrade Smack — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:34:58 +0000

I agree mostly with Tamar.

I think that although IRC does in fact still exist (though is probably most used for remotely fiddling with botnets) it usually is full of the sort of geek you’ve previously blogged about.

I think that the new Chat Rooms are Social Networking pages such as MySpace, Facebook, et cetera.

It’s probably because the newer generation just likes aesthetics so much.
IRC is to MUD as SecondLife is to World of Warcraft.

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By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:08:41 +0000

I don’t think chat rooms are *entirely* dead – I still idle on IRC in case of emergency. You’re right though: the social web is here now. Newer sites have taken on the “chat room” theme, like Twitter and even Facebook.

The benefit to the latter is that it’s more personable (images, biographies, more information about a person) than just a regular name that isn’t particularly that outstanding in a sea of black and white text.

It’s evolution for sure.