I have been researching into Chat Rooms and Forums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_room) and have been focusing on where they fit in the social spectrum.
The basic form of chatting, such as newsgroups and IRC are some of the most basic forms of communication and are still used by some websites today. However these have been refined and upgraded into 'fancier', more advanced communication mediums, such as Instant Messaging, forums and becoming ever more popular in online video/computer games.
As an experienced user of Internet Forums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum), I am interested in how they work and interact with the database and handle user information so seamless nowadays. I have had some experience with using pre-made forum code (phpbb), but never fully understood how it works with the mySQL database.
I am starting to think that a combination of real-time chat and forum functions could be an interesting path to follow, and is an idea that is rarely implemented in a basic form.
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