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PowWow

A Real Time Chat program enabling you to chat with over 2,000,000 other PowWow users from around the world. Now with INSTA-VOICE! Features include: Real Time notification of when your PowWow Buddies come on-line, Real Time Games such as Chess, Checkers, Cards, Backgammon etc., Voice capability, Cruising the Web with other users, Join many different PowWow Communities with different themes, Paint in color on the Whiteboard, Play Sounds (WAVS) to one another, View pictures of fellow chatters, Send files to each other, Hear what is typed with Text to Speech, and many more fun and exciting features. No need to know an IP address. Just your E-Mail address. Installation is easy. Simply run the intuitive setup program, enter your E-Mail address, and you're ready to chat. Find other people with similar interests via the PowWow White Pages and add yourself so others can find you. All of this at a price you can't beat! 100% FREE!! Yes it's FREEWARE!! Come Join the Fun!!

mIRC 32-bit

To put it simply, one of the easiest most powerful (if not the best) IRC clients around.

Microsoft Chat 2.5

Add flexibility to your chats!
Microsoft Chat brings new versatility that offers you countless ways to:

  • communicate and share ideas
  • meet new friends
  • stay in touch with old friends

When you're ready to chat, all you have to do to conduct real-time conversations is enter a Chat Room on an Internet server.

Microsoft V-Chat 2.0

Microsoft V-Chat 2.0 brings you the latest in 3D chat

Microsoft V-Chat 2.0 is new interactive online chat software that takes your chatting capabilities literally to another dimension! When you chat with V-Chat, you are represented by a graphical character called an avatar. The multi-dimensional nature of an avatar lets you add depth to the facial expressions, gestures, and movements your character displays while you chat!

NetMeeting 2.1

Here's what you've been waiting for—NetMeeting™ 2.1, the Windows multimedia collaboration tool! Using your PC and the Internet, you can now hold face-to-face conversations with friends and family around the world, and it won't cost a fortune to do so. Because NetMeeting 2.1 works with any video capture card or camera that supports Video for Windows®, you can choose from a wide range of video equipment. For example, black-and-white video cameras for the PC start at just $99, and color video cameras start at around $199.

Video is just one of the powerful features of NetMeeting 2.1. Its data conferencing features let you collaborate with a group of people from within any 32-bit Windows application -- drawing on a shared whiteboard, sending text messages, and transferring files. And NetMeeting's real-time audio lets you talk to other people over the Internet, even if you use a 14.4 kbps modem. NetMeeting's video, audio, and data conferencing are all based on industry standards, so you can communicate with people using compatible products.

IVisit

A multiparty video chat application that does not require a reflector, central server, or other special hardware. iVisit features include multiparty real-time audio, double-speed video, unlimited chat rooms, business cards, a directory server, security and privacy control, and Internet and intranet capabilities. With iVisit software, a camera, and a network connection, you can share video, audio, and text in real time with any number of online users from the convenience and privacy of your own computer. The number of users who can be involved in a simultaneous conference is limited only by the capacity of the network connection, the speed of the computer, the type of media being exchanged (video, audio, text), and the number of video windows that will fit on the computer screen.

Chatterboxes Unite!

If you're the type of person who just can't shut up--or who's tongue-tied in spoken conversation but eloquent with the written word--the Internet offers everything you need to chat to your heart's content. You can set up buddy lists and private chats to catch up with your old friends, or head out to the greater Net to find new ones. You can even go beyond plain text to explore 3D worlds or to dabble in audio and video chat.

But how to get started? Never fear! We've scoured CNET.com's Downloads section and come up with a host of software for all these types of chat--and we throw in some chat hosting software, utilities, and add-ons to make your whole chatting experience more fun. We've got more than 75 downloads free for the taking, so gear up your mouse, pick a category, and let's go!

Shareware.Com

Search from more than 250,000 files at this site. Both Macintosh and PC.

Download.Com

Visit DOWNLOAD.COM, the Internet's software source, to browse by category in its up-to-date database of more than 15,000 files. You'll also find reviews, top picks, and in-depth coverage of software downloads from our sister site. Macintosh and PC

Chat IRC Clients

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