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Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media. Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, [1] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages [2] as well as chat and data transfer, [3] including file sharing. [4]
An IRC bot performing a simple task. An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. An IRC bot differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to IRC for a human user, it performs automated functions.
An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, [1] is a software application that runs automated tasks on the Internet, usually with the intent to imitate human activity, such as messaging, on a large scale. [2] An Internet bot plays the client role in a client–server model whereas the server role is usually played by web servers. Internet ...
A classic example of instant messaging on a desktop computer: the left window of this software showing a list of contacts ("buddy list") and the right window an active IM conversation An example of instant messaging on mobile, featuring the exchange of pictures and audio on top of text
It was designed to output its video to the user's television in order to lower the cost of acquisition and to offer remote control and a powerful video compression codec for unequaled video quality and ease of use with video relay services. Favorable reviews quickly led to its popular usage at educational facilities for the deaf, and from there ...
Discord has become a major medium for play-by-chat games due to its rapidly-increasing popularity and its user-friendly administrative features that allow users to create private chat rooms (known on the site as "servers") in very little time. Discord servers listing roleplay servers have also become popular and many have thousands of members.
Over time, the limitations of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol became more apparent, being designed as a one-way text messaging system. [13] To replace the aging protocol, OStatus was devised as an open standard for microblogging, combining various other technologies like Salmon , Atom , WebSub and ActivityStreams into a single protocol used for ...