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The Rise and Fall of Chat Rooms: How Online Conversation Really Changed

From IRC channels in the 1990s to MSN Messenger, Yahoo Chat, Skype, Omegle and today’s Discord servers, online chat platforms have gone through dramatic rises, peaks and collapses over the last 30 years. In this episode we break down the real history of chat room popularity over time. What made early chat rooms explode. Why instant messengers dominated the 2000s. And how shifts in technology, moderation and user behaviour caused many platforms to fade away. This episode is based on a data driven timeline covering chat platforms from 1995 to 2025. We look at IRC, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype, Omegle and Discord. Separating nostalgia from actual usage trends and numbers. You can view the full article, timeline and data tables here  https://www.worldofchat.co.uk/chat-ro... If you are interested in modern chat rooms, online communities and how real time conversation still fits into today’s internet, visit the World of Chat homepage  https://www.worldofchat.co.uk/ Whether you grew up using MSN nudges, spent nights in Yahoo chat rooms or now manage Discord servers, this episode explains why chat rooms never really died. They just changed form.