Chat room

1973

Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois.

1980

In 2014 Brown and Woolley released a web-based version of Talkomatic. The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio.

1986

It was in use up until 1986.

1988

Chat rooms gained mainstream popularity with AOL. Jarkko Oikarinen created Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in 1988.

2014

In 2014 Brown and Woolley released a web-based version of Talkomatic. The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio.




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