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First Interspecies Internet Chat Posted: 7 months ago by bingo
Eleven years ago today, Koko the gorilla used American Sign Language to communicate with her fans via AOL chat. It was the first known interspecies chat on the internet.
As the transcript clearly shows, Koko’s responses were a bit vague, but no more inane than some of the drivel littering Facebook pages these days.
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Microsoft unplugs oral sex talking Santa chat bot Posted: 2 years ago by henkspaan
An artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft to talk to children wavered off topic saying: "It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else...."
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Experts Open Dolphin 'Chat Line' in Fla. Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
A marine mammal rehabilitation facility opened a dolphin "chat line" of sorts Saturday, hoping to teach a deaf dolphin's unborn calf to communicate.
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Chat With God! Posted: 3 years ago by LatueOfStiberty
Thanks to new technologies, you can now chat live with god.
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Counseling call goes to racy chat line Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
Mother hands 8-Year-old the phone to speak to counselors, gets sex line instead. Put this in the Florida file.
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Cartoon avatars chat on Google Posted: 1 year ago by meggysue
An interesting concept, but maybe too distracting for me. It's hard enough to think on my fingertips without handsome avatars watching me.
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#1 Bash.org Chat Posted: 2 years ago by acemak
This is from bash.org a catalog of funny IRC chats. This is number one
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For those of you that don't know Posted: 2 years ago by titojuante
We have been using this chat room during the Plime downtime. If it goes down again you can find some of us here. The password is karma.
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New neckband can be used in 'telepathic' chat Posted: 2 years ago by tdiggity
A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a "voiceless" phone call for the first time.
Think of the ramifications for paralyzed people and such!
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Live Hot Puppet Chat(careful@work) Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
Are you Lonely? Curious? Depraved? Do you have questions that are just too risqué for AskMe? Live Hot Puppet Chat has got your answer. Yeah baby! Now you can experience sizzling raw, uh, pleasures.
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Live Truck-Cam Posted: 1 year ago by doggylives
Some trucker dude has put a streaming webcam in his truck so you can see what he does and chat live to him and hear him.
Really bizarre and his singing sucks.
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Even God is into chatting Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
Playing Black Sabbath at 78-speed is one way to see God. There are many others. If you simply want to chat with God than click above and get the answers you've been seeking directly from the Big Man.
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Want to chat with Jimmy Carter? Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Smithsonian.com has set up a live chat with the former US President to discuss "The Ethiopia Campaign" .
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Radio DJ chats away to himself for an hour Posted: 2 years ago by topofall
Oops!
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=^_^= Posted: 2 years ago by donteatpoop
A brilliant portrayal of the slow decline of our intellect evident in our communication through the internet.
(some foul language)
(repost from a year ago, consider it a bit of a PSA)
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Create an instant chatroom on the fly Posted: 2 years ago by Galoot
No IRC software needed.
Visit the link, type in a room name, share the URL with your friends (like this one for Plime) and go to town. Even grandma can do it.
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Australia to get net censorship Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
NEW restrictions on online chatrooms, websites and mobile phone content will be introduced within a month to stop children viewing unsuitable material.
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Joan — The Artificially Intelligent, speaking, videocentric Avatar Posted: 1 year ago by jLoSsDh
Converse with AI
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China law blind to nude Web chats Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Chinese prosecutors have dropped a case against a housewife who organized online chats in the nude, after discovering there was no basis in law to bring charges.
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Instant Messaging for Introverts Posted: 2 years ago by extc68
An article about the persistent reluctance of many nerds to embrace fully new communications media such as IM and Twitter. In this thoughtful article Joe Kissell explores, from the inside, the mind of the introvert and how this personality style often struggles with new "always-on" media. The result is a sometimes exasperated incomprehension on the part of the more extroverted.
Original /. article here.
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