I recall many years ago, there were 'Chat Rooms'

[angstlessk]

Do they still exist?

[CincyDem]

1. I'm actually working in one at this moment....

...There's a app system called Slack. There are probably others. Just started with a team this week using it and it feels exactly like the old AOL chat rooms. IMs and everything.

Surprisingly efficient.

[angstlessk]

2. Let me know when it's ready for prime time

I'll be there

[Roland99]

11. Slack is very useful for team projects.

Stuff gets lost in emails or people aren’t included or...

[sarcasmo]

3. Met my current wife in an AOL chatroom in 2001.

[angstlessk]

7. My first exposure was AOL chat

After a time I was banned calling out poetry folks as pedophiles...they LOVED poetry by teenagers, no matter how bad..

[Leith]

4. Channels, Dagnabbit! Channels!

When I was on IRC, "chat rooms" were for AOL users. That was way back when putting a letter-sized flower in your post was the epitome of graphics. You had to use Unix commands to do just about everything.

[Roland99]

12. Oh yeah. IRC was great

[TlalocW]

5. I remember the good old days of IRC

Internet came to my college campus in the early 90s. Some of my like-minded nerd friends and I liked to join the #limbaugh channel and get into arguments... with a twist as we joined with the names HulkHogan and MachoMan and would argue in character. I remember the longest ban from the channel we ever got was when one of us typed in the action: MachoMan grabs GunHed (channel moderator) and bodyslams him straight to hell so he can sit and visit with Richard Nixon.

Another time in a #politics channel, I was able to run off the grandson of Fred Phelps who had been on the channel calling everyone fags and fag-lovers. I said something like, "It's proven that lesbians are one of the groups least effected by AIDS. By your logic that God is punishing groups of people with AIDS, it's apparent that He really loves lesbians... which proves that God is a man after all."

And finally, I would join a #seattle channel to talk with a friend from there through private messages because we had this act where I was a bot she had programmed. So I would type out the lyrics to Gilligan's Island but not enter them in the public chat until I messaged her to type, "Gilligan!" at which point I would hit enter to make it look like I auto-responded. It drove one person on there crazy because my friend told him that if you paid attention, you could figure out how to control me.

Ah, such fun, wasted time. Nowadays, if I need background noise, I go to a site that plays MST3K nearly 24/7. There's a little chatbox next to it that I'll sometimes interact with people in it because sometimes the moderator plays a horrible non-MST3K movie, and we'll riff it.

TlalocW

[DemocracyMouse]

6. Isn't THIS a "chat room?" Same damn thing. People in dialogue.

[angstlessk]

8. No...have you ever visited a chat room?

This is called a forum

[PoliticAverse]

9. IRC is alive and well...

For example:
https://freenode.net/

[Kirk Lover]

10. Yeah there has to be some! Do you remember all the different categories....there were

so many! I was addicted to the chat rooms for awhile...they were a big thing.

[angstlessk]

13. Yes...I think there were dating crap,,,but I was interested in politics

I used to argue vociferously for liberals against conservatives...I knew Gore would win!

[nolabear]

14. I used to call them electronic cocktail parties.

I’m a natural multitasker and it was great to run back and forth among conversations.

[angstlessk]

15. So much fun back in the early days of chat

don't know why chat went away?

[nolabear]

16. Now and then we achieve that here when something is going on.

Not to sound like a cranky oldster but it used to be more common and interesting. I recall the Boston Marathon bombing when someone has a police radio and the cops didn’t realize they were on a public channel. Everything that went on was conveyed here and we knew long before the Press did. It was riveting.

[lunasun]

17. Yes I go on one

[angstlessk]

18. Link?

[lunasun]

20. well you would have to log in to see it private and paid for- members only

There are 9 people on it right now talking about a release
Its called the CHAT room on a label

Artists who started it and others on the label will come on and chat also once in awhile
Who are you dealing with ??? well for one, an artist that just banned cell phones at paid for concerts this year
and it was wonderful btw with no screens in your view and all people actually looking and listening !
yeah old school but the Yonder pouch was no biggie
Select Performers have been doing that for years though....
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-dave-chappelle-is-creating-844886

and you lose these types around you at your paid for event

Chris Palmer • 2 years ago
I'm too important to not text or constantly take selfies of everything I do to post to my various social media sites. This is bullshit
I'm sure the post was but they exist

I had a ballet ruined by someone texting through at least half of the performance but now I digress even more

[angstlessk]

19. Unless you think a forum is a chat room?

[lunasun]

21. members only music related-Its called the CHAT room on a label

There are 9 people on it right now talking about a new release .

[Denis 11]

22. I liked the Michael Moore board around 1999( or so)

Then I found Bartcop then DU.