Communication has seen several transformations over the years. Be it any mode, telephone system, mobile system, mailing system or contact through internet. By internet communication one means both the passive as well as the active communications. The passive are the ones where no instant replies are possible, i.e. one has to wait for quite some time before getting any reply from the other party.
Communication has seen several transformations over the years. Be it any mode, telephone system, mobile system, mailing system or contact through internet. By internet communication one means both the passive as well as the active communications. The passive are the ones where no instant replies are possible, i.e. one has to wait for quite some time before getting any reply from the other party. Like one sends an email and has to wait for the other one to reply. The active mode is referred to the situation when both the parties are present and it is an instantaneous communication. And there is more than one active communication mode available through the internet.
The most common mode is chat, the simplest and the easiest way to interact over internet. The chat service was first introduced in the year 1980 by Alexander Trevor from Columbus, Ohio. The name of the service was CompuServe CB Simulator. Well basically chat in internet or online chat is exchanging of text messages and that to on a real time basis. The online chatting also brings in the concept of chat room along with it. They are virtual places or rooms where several people having registered with the same website or service provider are present and they communicate. The chat rooms help you to communicate with the other people in the same place and at the same time. But most of the chat rooms are generally text based, though few also provide with voice option also.
When the chat option got used up for a long time, it needed a fresh lease of life. That’s when the other small changes and advancements came up. Like the usage of emoticons to spice up the chat and make you feel closer to reality. But this lack of real emotions was the only demerit of chat with text option. That’s the reason the advent of video chat became so more important and famous. To know a person’s emotions through a smiley does not make much of a sense. A person may be sad yet send a smiley, that is where the text chatting lost. Video chat uses the same concept, where one person can interact with another person if both of them are registered to the same service provider.
Video chat is generally done with the help of a web camera and thus it is also said webcam chat. There are so many different service providers and the competition gets tough because free video chat is what all are aiming at. The best part of cam chat (another name of video chat) is that both the involved parties need not have web cameras installed. If one party has a webcam and the other does not then also the conversation can continue. Just that the video of one person or party will be transmitted and the other party will only be able to see. This removes the limitation of the traditional text chat and thus becomes much more integral because of the exquisite features and no charge conditions.