instant messenger - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - The Culture Of Talkers
Talker - Divisions between talkers. Talkers can be divided quite succinctly between two groups - ew-too-style talkers and NUTS-style ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnome: Encyclopedia - Gnome
The GNOME project is an international effort to create an easy-to-use computer desktop environment built entirely from software consider...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Commands And Abilities
Each talker had different commands available, but a typical list is as follows: say - talks to the room shout - talks to the entire talk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Other Talkers By Other Names
There are many other types of chat program that are sometimes referred to as "talkers", which are also historically based on MUDs. These ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Multiple Worlds Talkers
Some talkers linked together with each other, to form a "multiple worlds" talker. The first of these, lintilla (1994), used the same code...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zephyr Protocol: Encyclopedia - Zephyr Protocol
Created at MIT, as part of Project Athena, Zephyr was designed as an instant messenger protocol and application-suite with a heavy Unix b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Adult 18+ Talkers
With the introduction of lintilla in 1994, and its split off of Sleepy's multiple worlds in 1995, adult talkers became increasingly commo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia - Zoophilia
Zoophilia (from the Greek Zoon, "animal", and Philia, "friendship" or "love") is a paraphilia, defined as an affinity or sexual attractio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cantonese Linguistics: Encyclopedia - Cantonese Linguistics
Cantonese (Traditional Chinese: 粵語; Simplified Chinese: 粤语, Cantonese: Yuet6yue5; Mandarin pinyin: Yueyu, lit. "Yụet (Guangdong...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - History Of Talkers
Talker - Intranet talkers. The first talker in history appeared in 1984. Talkers at this period of time were hosted on an intranet with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gush: Encyclopedia - Gush
This article is about the instant messenger. For the Hesder Yeshiva, see Yeshivat Har Etzion. Gush is a free, professional grade, cross-p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Main Differences Between Ew-too Type Talkers And Nuts Type Talkers
Whilst talker bases had a variety of names for their codes, there were essentially only 2 base codes from which all other codes were base...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Levels Of Users
Most talkers had 3 basic levels - USER, WIZ and GOD (or SU). On some talkers, they required for you to register before promoting you to u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Ew-too Style All Ages Talkers
Ew-too style talkers, which are originally based on LPMud have code that is very easy to use for people who are used to MUDs, and hence a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Programs Used To Connect To Talkers
Traditionally, the only way to connect to a talker is by using telnet. Some talkers allow connections via SSL, but this is quite rare. Or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - How A Talker Is Advertised
Historically, talkers pre-date the World Wide Web and hence the main form of advertisement was word of mouth, although newsgroups were so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Commands And Abilities
Each talker had different commands available, but a typical list is as follows: say - talks to the room shout - talks to the entire talk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Nuts-style All Ages Talkers
NUTS-style talkers generally had completely different users to ew-too style talkers. People who used ew-too loved them and refused to use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Code Bases
The first internet talker, Cat Chat, created in 1990, was based on LPMud code, used for MUDs. This code eventually developed in to Elsewh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talker: Encyclopedia Ii - Talker - Bbs Talkers
Talker - UNaXcess. UNaXcess is a bulletin board system originally started at Bradford University by Brandon S Allbery in 1984. During t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fire Instant Messenger: Encyclopedia Ii - Fire Instant Messenger - History
In the early beta days of Mac OS X, Eric Peyton wanted to have an IM client which would run on this new OS. However, all of the official ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emoticon: Encyclopedia Ii - Emoticon - Western Style
Traditionally, the emoticon in Western style is written from left to right, the way one reads and writes in most Western cultures. Thus, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frotz: Encyclopedia Ii - Frotz - Spell
Frotz is also the name of the spell in Infocom's Enchanter series. This spell causes an object to glow with light. A typical casting of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Perspectives On Zoophilia
Zoophilia - Psychological and research perspectives. DSM-III-R (APA, 1987) stated that sexual contact with animals is almost never a cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gaim: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaim - Derivatives
PhoneGaim is a software based on Gaim (and thus also available under the GPL) that uses the SIP protocol to be able to have voice communi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harassment By Computer: Encyclopedia Ii - Harassment By Computer - Virginia
In Virginia, the offense is a Class 1 misdemeanor[2]. The Virginia statute against harassment by computer, passed in 2000, is worded very...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Online Chat: Encyclopedia Ii - Online Chat - Types Of Online Chat
Online chat - Internet Relay Chat. The oldest form of online chat is Internet Relay Chat or IRC, where a user logs in using a client su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qq: Encyclopedia Ii - Qq - Development
QQ was initially developed by Tencent Inc. in February 1999. The first release of QQ was advertised as an "Internet Pager" instant messen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation - Pronunciation In English
The romanized words are normally pronounced in a somewhat anglicized way, with the following characteristics which are different than wha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Firsts: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Firsts - Exploration
List of firsts - Geographic North Pole. First (disputed) expedition to the geographic North Pole: Robert Edwin Peary and his employee ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Perspectives On Zoophilia
Zoophilia - Psychological and research perspectives. DSM-III-R (APA, 1987) stated that sexual contact with animals is almost never a cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Internet Relay Chat: Encyclopedia Ii - Internet Relay Chat - Technical Information
IRC is an open protocol that uses TCP and optionally SSL. An IRC server can connect to other IRC servers to expand the IRC network. Users...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - File Sharing: Encyclopedia Ii - File Sharing - Network Architecture
There are several major issues surrounding file sharing. Of these, the two most important are centralization vs decentralization and the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mono Development Platform: Encyclopedia Ii - Mono Development Platform - Framework Architecture
Mono development platform - Class Library. The class library provides a comprehensive set of facilities for application development. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Cultural References: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Cultural References - 42
References to the number forty-two are common Google's calculator feature displays the number 42 when asked, "What is the answer to life...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cantonese Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Cantonese Linguistics - Written Cantonese
Standard written Chinese is, in essence, written Standard Mandarin. People who speak another Chinese language (or dialect), when reading ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Typographical Personification: Encyclopedia Ii - Typographical Personification - In Fiction
In Terry Pratchett's novel The Truth, a group of dwarves run a printing press to create a typo-filled newspaper, intended to be named Ank...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnome: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnome - Origin
The GNOME project was started in August 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena in response to licensing concerns over software used by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Books, Articles And Documentaries
Zoophilia - Academic and professional. Andrea Beetz Ph.D.: Love, Violence, and Sexuality in Relationships between Humans and Animals, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Health And Safety
Humans and animals cannot make each other pregnant, but infections due to improper cleaning could be an issue for either party. Most dise...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Terminology
The general term zoophilia was first introduced into the field of research on sexuality by Krafft-Ebing (1894). The terms zoosexual and z...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Zoophiles
Zoophilia - Zoophilia as a lifestyle. Separate from those whose interest is curiosity, pornography, or sexual novelty, are those for wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Extent Of Occurrence
The extent to which zoophilia occurs is not known with any certainty, largely because feelings which may not have been acted upon can be ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Legal Status
Zoosexual acts are illegal in many jurisdictions, while others generally outlaw the mistreatment of animals without specifically mentioni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Media Discussion
Because of its controversial standing, different countries and medias vary in how they treat discussion of zoosexuality. Often sexual mat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - File Sharing: Encyclopedia Ii - File Sharing - Copyright Issues
File sharing (such as with the Gnutella and Napster networks) grew in popularity with the proliferation of high speed Internet connection...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - File Sharing: Encyclopedia Ii - File Sharing - History
File sharing is one of the original applications on the internet, preceding even email. FTP evolved as a common standard for file sharing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mono Development Platform: Encyclopedia Ii - Mono Development Platform - Mono And Microsoft's Patents
A lot of discussion has taken place about whether Microsoft could destroy the Mono project with patents. The problematic parts are not th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation - Usage
It is used in romanising names of people, when the applicant do not produce one by her/himself, and geographical names, for places which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qq: Encyclopedia Ii - Qq - Controversies And Criticisms
QQ has faced many criticisms and controversies. QQ - Keyword Filtering. In August 2004, QQ Games start to filter keywords such as "é’“é...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation - Spelling
It is not a fully standardised system, and many of the phonemes correspond to more than one letter combination, or the other way round. A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emoticon: Encyclopedia Ii - Emoticon - Anime Style
English anime fora spawned a form of kaomoji adapted for single-byte encoding. They have since seen use in more mainstream venues, includ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Books Articles And Documentaries
Zoophilia - Academic and professional. Andrea Beetz Ph.D.: Love, Violence, and Sexuality in Relationships between Humans and Animals, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mono Development Platform: Encyclopedia Ii - Mono Development Platform - History
Miguel de Icaza became interested in the .NET technology as soon as the .NET documents came out in December 2000. He started to look at t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Mythology And Fantasy Literature
From cave paintings onward and throughout human history, zoophilia has been a recurring subject in art, literature, and fantasy. In Ugari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Pornography
Pornography involving sex with animals is widely illegal, even in most countries where the act itself is not explicitly outlawed. In the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Legal Status
Zoosexual acts are illegal in many jurisdictions, while others generally outlaw the mistreatment of animals without specifically mentioni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Social Community
Whether there is such a thing as a "zoophile community", in the same sense as the gay community or any other alternative lifestyle commun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Arguments About Zoophilia Or Zoosexuality
Platonic love for animals is usually viewed positively, but most people express concern or disapproval of sexual interest, sometimes very...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emoticon: Encyclopedia Ii - Emoticon - History
Emoticon - Background. In 1963 the smiley face, a yellow button with a smile and two dots representing eyes, was invented by freelance ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Terminology
The general term zoophilia was first introduced into the field of research on sexuality by Krafft-Ebing (1894). The terms zoosexual and z...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnome: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnome - Source Code
GNOME releases are made in the form of source code, which is then compiled and integrated with the rest of the system to produce a functi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Extent Of Occurrence
The extent to which zoophilia occurs is not known with any certainty, largely because feelings which may not have been acted upon can be ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Zoophiles
Zoophilia - Zoophilia as a lifestyle. Separate from those whose interest is curiosity, pornography, or sexual novelty, are those for wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Arguments About Zoophilia Or Zoosexuality
Platonic love for animals is usually viewed positively, but most people express concern or disapproval of sexual interest, sometimes very...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Health And Safety
Humans and animals cannot make each other pregnant, but infections due to improper cleaning could be an issue for either party. Most dise...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnome: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnome - Future Developments
There are many sub-projects under the umbrella of the GNOME project, and not all of them are currently included in GNOME releases. Some a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnome: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnome - Architecture
The GNOME desktop is built from a large number of different projects. A few of the major ones are listed below: Bonobo — a compound do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cantonese Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Cantonese Linguistics - Cantonese Versus Mandarin
In some ways, Cantonese is a more conservative language than Mandarin. This can be seen, for example, by comparing the words for "I/me" (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cantonese Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Cantonese Linguistics - Dialects Of Cantonese
There are at least four major dialect groups of Cantonese: Yuehai, which includes the dialect spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnome: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnome - Aims
According to the GNOME website, "The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive deskt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnome: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnome - Organisation
In common with most free software projects, the GNOME project is loosely organised. Discussion occurs on a number of mailing lists that a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnome: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnome - Platforms
Although originally a GNU/Linux desktop, GNOME now runs on most Unix-like systems (*BSD variants, AIX, IRIX, HP-UX), and in particular it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Mythology And Fantasy Literature
From cave paintings onward and throughout human history, zoophilia has been a recurring subject in art, literature, and fantasy. In Ugari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Media Discussion
Because of its controversial standing, different countries and medias vary in how they treat discussion of zoosexuality. Often sexual mat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Internet Relay Chat: Encyclopedia Ii - Internet Relay Chat - Clients
mIRC is widely believed to be the most popular IRC client on Windows based systems. However, with the recent introduction of clients such...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Internet Relay Chat: Encyclopedia Ii - Internet Relay Chat - Networks And Urls
Today there are several thousand running IRC networks in the world. They run various implementations of IRC servers, and are administered...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Internet Relay Chat: Encyclopedia Ii - Internet Relay Chat - File Sharing
Using scripts like Sysreset, UPP and Polaris users can create file servers that allow them to share files with others. In addition to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Firsts: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Firsts - Science And Phenomena
List of firsts - Space Science. First artificial satellite launched into orbit: Sputnik 1. (1957) First animal to orbit Earth: Laika. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Online Chat: Encyclopedia Ii - Online Chat - Other Forms Of Online Chat That Are Not Usually Referred To As Online Chat
Online chat - MUDs. A MUD, or a multi-user dungeon, is a multi-user version of dungeons and dragons for the internet, and is an early u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - File Sharing: Encyclopedia Ii - File Sharing - Copyright Issues
File sharing (such as Gnutella and Napster) grew in popularity with the proliferation of high speed Internet connections and the (relativ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - File Sharing: Encyclopedia Ii - File Sharing - History
Napster, originally a centralized system, was the first major file-sharing tool and popularized file sharing for the masses. Napster was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Social Community
Whether there is such a thing as a "zoophile community", in the same sense as the gay community or any other alternative lifestyle commun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Pornography
Pornography involving sex with animals is widely illegal, even in most countries where the act itself is not explicitly outlawed. In the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoophilia - Books Articles And Documentaries
Zoophilia - Academic and professional. Andrea Beetz Ph.D.: Love, Violence, and Sexuality in Relationships between Humans and Animals, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emoticon: Encyclopedia Ii - Emoticon - East Asian Style
Users from East Asia (particularly Japanese language speakers those who visit 2channel) popularized a style of emoticons known as vertico...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emoticon: Encyclopedia Ii - Emoticon - Anime Style
English anime forums spawned a form of kaomoji adapted for single-byte encoding. They have since seen use in more mainstream venues, incl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qq: Encyclopedia Ii - Qq - Usage
It is estimated that there are over 150 million QQ users in China. As of 5 March 2005, there are an average of 9 million people online at...   » Read the article