Whatever Happened To Chat Rooms

Aol s instant messenger perhaps the icon of the anonymous instant messaging age quietly killed off its chat rooms in 2010.

Whatever happened to chat rooms.

Aol chat rooms popular in the 90 s and early 00 s are less so today thanks to new technology. So what happened to all the chat rooms. I remember logging into irc and being in a chat room and talking to someone in singapore. Once you re ready to dive into the world of online chatting all that s left to do is find a chat room and sign up.

The best chat rooms for over 50s and 60s. Y99 chat rooms. Once you re more comfortable chat rooms made specifically for seniors can help you meet people who you can share anecdotes about your interests retirement and families with. That said i have never found an irc chatroom that really compared to say the old aol chatrooms.

Yahoo messenger axed its public chat rooms in 2012 explaining only. I think in 2014 the only chat service still around is facebook but i never hear much about it. Aol stylized as aol formerly a company known as aol inc. People just looking to converse not about any particular topic.

And originally known as america online is an american web portal and online service provider based in new york city it is a brand marketed by verizon media. Ever since about 2005 the aol chat rooms pretty much died out and other services like yahoo chat never got popular. The service traces its history to an online service known as playnet playnet licensed their software to quantum link q link who went online in november 1985.