A web chat is a system which helps and permits users to communicate by easily accessible web interfaces in real time.

It is a type of online chat which is very successful due to its simplicity and accessibility, as the users do not wish to take the time to install and learn to use specialized chat software.

Chat servers we use mostly for group chats single chats and chats which are of anonymus types.

Web chats (also known as messengers, IM, or instant messengers) have been around for decades, almost as long as email.

The first major web chat client that was used worldwide was ICQ. ICQ is a slang version of “I seek you”. ICQ was originally released in November 1996, and was freely available to anyone with a computer and Internet connection.

Chat servers is just like another server it will store all the services associated to the chat and the details of the persons which chat using that server.

So the chat servers provides the gateway by which we can enter into the domain for that and use that service .

Web chat software

The following are standalone chat servers:

• IBM Sametime

The following are web front ends (requires e.g. IRC chat server):

• CGI:IRC (Perl, Ajax)
• Mibbit (Java, Ajax)
• PJIRC (Java)
• qwebirc (Python, Ajax)