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An Overview of the Evolution of Chat Rooms – Infographic

As long as man has existed, the need for communicating has existed. From the first spoken language that spurned over 7,000 languages today, to the first written language sprawled across the walls of dark, ancient caves – all the way to modern social media, mankind has come up with many creative ways to connect. In this infographic, we can see the evolution of chat rooms, from stone slabs to where we are today.

Although some people may find ancient cave paintings and hieroglyphics quite boring, or perhaps they start yawning at the thought of the first telephone or the birth of VoIP, every one of these important stepping stones led to the modern chat room and instant messaging services we use today.

It is human nature to take certain rights and privileges for granted, but just stop for a moment and think about how convenient is it that you can pick up your smartphone in the middle of the supermarket, and text your spouse to find out what they want you to pick up for dinner?

Nowadays, you can jump onto platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr, Pinterest and many more venues to post an image to go with your message – or simply post the image itself to do the talking for you – any time and any place.

Even the modern digital cameras of today are internet-enabled. You snap a picture and post it online in an instant – right from your camera. You have to marvel at that, for sure. On top of that, more amazing innovations continue to emerge. The Baby Boomers from the 50’s remember using the only rotary phone in the house to call friends. No wonder they are blown away by the text-ready, social media-friendly phones and tablets we now use.

Technology has made it even easier to create more ways to interact, too. You can easily create a site, blog or chat room, thanks to helpful innovations like WordPress, MySQL and PHP. Let’s take a look at the many ways we communicate in an instant today – which is far quicker than etching your message on a stone slab, we have to admit.

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Thank you whoishostingthis for this great article and infographic.

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The Return of Chat Rooms for Web Sites

There was a time when chatting in a group simply suggested written text. Back than it was used for mainly fun. What we see today that chat rooms for web sites are back, mostly in the business arena and mainly for community management.
More and more companies and webmasters seems to see the benefit in adding a chat room to their website to manage and engage their community.

chat rooms for web sites

This is also backed-up by statistics. Numbers show that chat rooms for web sites lead to an increase in website visitors.

  • A further reason to return to the website, up to 45% more than without one.
  • Chat rooms in websites make users stay longer, up to 5 minutes more.
  • Chat rooms also help to build a community and let users a further reason to return to the website.

EXAMPLE: Try out a live example (WordPress plugin)

In the 90’s, chat rooms meant text chat, But today, chatting is not limited to writing anymore. New HTML5 chat rooms are equipped with various modern options. This is the result of new emerging technologies like WebRTC (new technology by Google), NodeJS and bootstrap. Now you can easily use a chat conversation to:

  • Sharing and uploading files, docs, pdf
  • Sharing and uploading images
  • Selfie – the new trend with web chats
  • Sending Audio messages
  • Sending Video messages
  • Share YouTube videos

The new html5 + webRTC features also come with the ability to customize a chat room look and feel. This means one can design using CSS his own chat room style and do in simply a couple of minutes. This all package, let business owner communicate with their prospective audience in a more attractive way. If you have a smartphone or tablet, you can talk to your friends from simply anywhere.

Business community management is not a single tool that does it for you. It is hard work. But with today’s tools, it becomes easier than ever to manage a community. It means, that combining various tools like Trouble Ticketing system, knowledge base services, Support chat for immediate response to questions and a Chat room to manage virtual events or webinars are the keys for successful management. We even sometimes feel that in large cooperation, a website without a chat is considered incomplete nowadays.

Website chat rooms intensify the gathering and socializing and even make the online community as close as possible to real life.

To make it even more social, chat rooms now days have the ability to invite chatter friends to join the chat room and gossip, your website gets traffic. You can even manage several chats room based on topics or duration.

As always the tools to control an actual conversation are still in place, a chat owner can delete messages, clear the entire chat conversation, ban trolls if you think they are harmful to your chat room. You can also restrict words and phrase that you think is illogical and bad.

Mmm, It seems chat rooms are here to stay as they are a basic fundamental of being social or shall we say, human.

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Using the WebRTC Technology in RumbleTalk Chatroom

WebRTC is probably the most amazing technology invented in the last couple of years. It lets you do complex software development in minutes all  from any web-browser.

In RumbleTalk, we lately launched a new chat room version that uses this technology and we see already amazing results. WebRTC allows us to integrate the possibility for chatters to use the PC camera and microphone and with that send sound messages to the chat room in addition of being able to take selfie photos. All is done from the browser.

What is WebRTC?

So, WebRTC is an open project that enables any web browser to have a Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities, such as camera and sound usage via simple JavaScript API. The WebRTC components have been optimized to let developers add real time communication in a pretty easy manner.

How do we use it in RumbleTalk chatroom?

Using WebRTC allows us to do amazing things like sending short video messages during the chat (Firefox only at this stage), send short audio messages between the group members (chatters) and much much more.

We feel that with the former feature  we enabled last month of having the ability to upload files. It is making the chatroom service more attractive and complete for chatters.

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