Chatting on the Internet can take place via Web pages at places known as chat rooms. When participating in a chat, your messages are instantaneously relayed to other members and their messages are instantaneously relayed to you. These are not real-time conversations. A participant may post a question and others may discuss the answer or ask additional questions over the next few hours, days or weeks. Participants usually check back to see if a new message has been posted.
Discussion forums are also mostly Web-based today.
Neither of these are very popular with the masses on the Net today, but are still available and useful for certain information. Mostly lurkers are there to learn. The Voyager Advisor News is distributed FREE every Wednesday evening. In addition, we provide great tips, tricks and techniques to make your online experiences more enjoyable and productive. We should also mention the interesting Internet commentary and humor.