History The first online chat system was called Talkomatic, created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois. It offered several channels, each of which could accommodate up to five people, with messages appearing on all users' screens character-by-character as they were typed. Talkomatic was very popular among PLATO users into the mid-1980s. In 2014, Brown and Woolley released a web-based version of Talkomatic.
History The first online chat system was called Talkomatic created by Doug Brown and David R Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois It offered several channels each of which could accommodate up to five people with messages appearing on all users' screens character-by-character as they were typed Talkomatic was very popular among PLATO users into the mid-1980s In 2014 Brown and Woolley released a web-based version of Talkomatic