Online Chat and Games Links

What's the point of being online if you can't enjoy yourself... right?
One of my favourite pastimes online is chatting and playing games
{when I'm not working of course!!!}

| Chat | Games |

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Chat Programs
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The Internet's best online chat program (IMHO), and best of all, it's FREE!!! Click on the ICQ logo to get to the download page of Mirabilis, and get ICQ today!!! The versatility of ICQ is enormous. You can have real-time chat, send messages to your contacts whether on or off-line, send URL's, transfer files (without any other ftp program needed), find users at random, use ICQ to link to other voice chat programs, and much, much, more.

No listing of internet chat programs would be complete without an IRC client. mIRC is just one of the many IRC clients available, with many great features making it the best IMO. mIRC offers full color text lines, DCC File Send and Get capabilities, programmable aliases, a remote commands and events handler, place sensitive popup menu's, a great Switchbar, World Wide Web and sound support, and... a lot more.

For those of you who want an alternative to ICQ (with far fewer features IMO), click on the AIM logo to download AOL's Instant Messenger for free. Best of all, you don't have to be an AOL subscriber to use it.

PowWow is an integrated solution for creating, maintaining, and hosting virtual Communities. Individual PowWow users may chat one on one, or as many as nine users may chat simultaneously. And kids use a special kids version of PowWow just for them.

FreeTel provides real-time full-duplex voice communication via the Internet. You can talk to friends and relatives around the world, free of long-distance telephone charges.

Currently Video VoxPhone Gold® is only available as a two-week free trial, or for out right purchase. It is well worth the investment though, as it is one of the few programs that will allow you to talk to anyone with H.323 compliant programs, and works well even with slower (ie. 28.8 kbps) internet connection speeds.
Video VoxPhone Gold allows you to conduct voice and video communications over the Internet. It features simultaneous conferencing with up to five people, the ability to call a regular telephone through a local Internet telephone service provider, an online telephone directory, and compressed voice e-mail. Other features include caller ID, call blocking, direct file transfer, text chat, and more. You can choose the level of voice compression that best suits your system.

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Internet Game Servers/Programs
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One of the wildest games on the Internet. You come up with acronyms to fit the letters and subjects given. For those of you on the tame side, there's "clean language" rooms also. Click on the Acro logo to check out Acrophobia.
Description of the game from the Acro website:
Acrophobia is a game where you create funny, witty or topical answers to an acronym, in an attempt to receive votes for your creativity. Everyone who plays also votes, but since they can't vote for their own answer you always have a chance to score. The game lasts until someone scores 30 points, then the top two scorers advance to the Face-Off Round, where a winner is crowned!

Chat, games, & all that other good stuff.
IGames has chat rooms, and game rooms where you can play Hearts, Backgammon, Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Spades, and Pinochle... and best of all it's free!!!

One of the best internet game servers going. You can play a multitude of different games here, from Doom and Quake, to a quiet game of checkers. Many of the games are free downloads, so that's even better!!! And as if that wasn't enough, the program also has voice chat capabilities. You can voice chat while playing games, or create a private chat room. They also have what I refer to as a "buddy program" that allows you to keep track of buddies anywhere on the Internet; send instant telegrams to friends, even if they're not on mplayer.com at the moment; send graphics, sounds, and text files to other members; and send invitations for others to join you in your favorite game or chat room.
Click on the logo to check out and download mplayer.

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