Alamak Internet Chat
This JavaScript-based chat service allows you to join in with the crowd or make private chat rooms.

Bla Bla
Bla Bla is an online community at the heart of which sits a thriving chat room. Users may create personal home pages for free, thereby firmly establishing themselves as members of the group.

Century Chat
Interface designers here have taken the less is more concept to such an extreme as to require guesswork. However, you will eventually find over a dozen chat rooms with fairly self-explanatory names.

Chat Central
Chat Central is making a go of a chat site business. Find public and members-only chat rooms in the dozens, where titles will give you a good idea of the kind of discussion each encourages.

Chat Planet
This is an enormous and popular megasite that houses hundreds of chat rooms that it can direct you to by topic. Whittle down from very broad subjects to the exact issue you wish to discuss.

Chat Room in Broken Englsh: CRIBE
This furious chat forum is geared for those of us who aren't so picky about spelling everything correctly. However, upon close inspection, spelling here seems no worse than anywhere else -- just less self-conscious.

Chat Room: West End Network
This is a multilingual chat room geared for people who want to communicate with strangers from distant lands. Visit here to make the Internet realize the ideal of many of its proponents.

Chat Rooms: The Coffee House
This chat room seeks an urbane and literate -- bohemian, even -- crowd. Discuss music, poetry, the meaning of life or the lack thereof in one of three rooms based on your browser.

chat-o-rama
A very large index of online chat spaces, browsable and in alphabetical order.

Chat: Coffee Gallery
This virtual community seeks to maintain a coffeehouse atmosphere where young people can discuss their artistic ambitions, their favorite music and ponder the meaning of life.

Chat: ZD Net
ZD Net regulars are encouraged to chill out for a while at this chat site. Topics of discussion range from technology news to programming jobs to users' favorite recipes.

Chathouse
Go to the future, the Tunnel of Love, the Castle or the Beach -- these are some of the chat rooms at Chathouse.

ChatPlanet
Large Java-based chat network with a number of rooms in categories like business and finance, religion and sports.

Chatster
Stroll Chatster's streets with names like Penny Lane, Hollywood Blvd. and Lonely Street. The only theme is the development of virtual relationships. Be nice and you'll make friends.

Chatting.com
This chat site's main virtue, and it is a notable one, is its ability to stay highly populated throughout the day. Otherwise, it is like other chat sites with virtual lounges and bars, as well as back rooms.

Communities: PowWow
PowWow not only creates chat software, but its site houses hundreds of online chat communities. Visit this site to choose the community you'd like to visit by subject, or by viewing the list of the most popular places.

Delphi Net
Find out about Delphi's special interests groups and Internet access services.

Expat Chat!
No matter where they are, Americans who are living in foreign lands have a lot in common. This is a place they can come to exchange experiences. There's plenty of homesickness, but more excitement about new discoveries.

Fat Cat Cafe
Fat Cat Cafe is your neighborhood coffee shop on the Internet. Here you can chat with neighbors, vent some frustration, get a recipe, find some free stuff, enter a contest or just getaway from the world. BYOC (Bring Your Own Coffee).

Free Chat Rooms: Xoom
Xoom chat rooms have the flexibility of being hosted at any Web page, regardless of the site's host. You can also schedule moderated chats with guests and more.

FreeTown
This is kind of like an online Mayberry, or perhaps Dubuque. It is a huge community of chat rooms organized like a large town or city. Go to a neighborhood and find a room at one of the local businesses, where you may gab with fellow wanderers.

Giglmons Cafe
The Cafe contains three chat rooms, the most popular of which is called The Buzz. Join the giddy gang in an excellent framechat to discuss the news of the world, and to make new friends.

Hotel Chat
This is a combination chat room and role playing game, only you play yourself, or the Netified version of same. Saunter into a five star hotel in Monaco, then, room-by-room, map out the course of your night.

Keep Talking Chat Sites
Choose among five sites for chatting by topic. Amanda's Table is a place for general chatting, KT's is the adult joint, Sirius is for pet talk, Buzz for radio and ReadFilm for movies.

Kelly's Barroom Chat
Pull up a stool, order a frosty and join the idle chit chat that bounces around in this virtual bar. Pick a fight or try to make friends with the rough-and-tumble crowd you might expect at an Internet Bar.

Lifetime Online
The cable television network specializing in programming for women hosts live online chat forums and events. Peruse this week's schedule of moderated and unmoderated chats.

Lobo's Pub
This small, but devoted community frequents three different rooms in this pub: Advice Chat, General Chat and Humor Chat. Visit to see if you would like to become a regular.

Mamma Matilda'sChat Room
Easy to use and interesting, this chat site hosts over a million blabbering cybernauts a day. Though located in Australia, these rooms are frequented by folks from all over the world.

Mojoski Chat
Mojoski maintains three chat areas. The Stoop! is open to all for free-form discussion about any and everything. HTML Developers, a members-only area, is self-explanatory, while the other members' room, The 'Ville, is only known to a select few.

Omni Chat
Aptly named, this site might best be described as a chat superstore. Choose among broad subjects like Business, Computer, Political and Music and narrow down from there to find just the right room for your mood.

OmniChat!
Here is an excellent chat site, plenty of rooms to gab it up on numerous subjects such as books and writing, business, television, politics, tunes, computer related information, sports, even religion.

Park, The
An online community boasting over 100 live chat rooms and over 500,000 visitors per month.

People Online Chat
The magazine that covers celebrities and entertainment hosts live chat events on the Web. Check the schedule for upcoming discussions with your favorite stars.

Real-Time Chat: UnderWire
This is the main chat room for UnderWire (Microsoft's online women's magazine). Some chats are hosted and may feature guest experts, while others are open and unmoderated.

Smooth Talker
Although this room is on the slow and low-tech side, it is a very popular destination. You'll find company around the clock for idle chatter, advice, flirtation or simple voyeurism.

SonicNet Chat
A guide to live online events featuring bands and artists from the alternative rock music scene. Find out who's on and when, this week and beyond.

Suburbs.com
Imagine the entire world as one huge, sprawling community of suburbs all in one brotherly area code. Almost makes you want to cry. However, the virtual version of this is quite handy. Choose a specific part of the world to chat in or about.

Talk City
Lists hundreds of Internet chat sessions on topics from hairstyling to Windows 95 and tells you how to get there.

Talk City
This is a large hub of chat sites that cover a wide array of topics. From subject areas like Family, College, Entertainment, Auto and Spirituality, users may whittle down to the specific rooms they feel like virtually hanging out in.

Talk.com
Live events and chat from a Wired perspective.

Talksports
Enter this Java-based chat room to disuss all things sports with fellow fans.

TG Chat: The Gathering
The Gathering is not a bad movie about a baby boomer reunion. It is a chat area for people of all ages where the encouraged discussion topics include books, food, family and social matters.

The Undernet
Undernet's huge worldwide IRC network keeps this Web home, where you can get info on its chat channels and servers.

TV Chat
TV Chat makes life easy for couch potatoes by giving them a place to talk about their favorite pal -- the boob tube.

Twentysomething Chat: WBS Community
Twentysomethings pack themselves into this rocking and uproarious chat room. It's almost like a party where no one has any inhibitions. That means lots of flirting and spilling of deep dark secrets. Enjoy!

U-City Chat
Choose from two chat locales in U-City. The All Nite Diner serves up a crowd that wants to talk headlines and current events. The Town Square keeps an easier atmosphere where all topics are welcome.

WBS
This online community offers chat, home pages, a newsstand and an internal mailing service to its members.

Well Engaged
Well Engaged brings the online communities and live chat of the Well to the Web.

Yack!
An online event guide dedicated to live chat opportunities on the Web. Look at the schedule to learn about times, places and special featured guests.