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Karterii93: Hiya everyone! Thanks for checking out this thread.

See, I got my first computer when I was seven years old in 2000, and my favorite past-time back then (besides playing games and watching games-related videos on AOL) was going on chatrooms! Don't worry, they were child-friendly... At least in my first few years of surfing.

I loved chatrooms, I joined a lot of them and I enjoyed talking to a variety of people. Some mean, sure, some even scary, but most of them were really nice people. All my fellow students in Germany were on particular chatrooms, everyone had their favorite, and we'd visit each other's favorite sites just to hang out together and meet their Internet friends. I myself made some Internet friends back then that I still regularly talk to through Skype, and I got to know some people better who I knew IRL but that would otherwise be more quiet at school. Thing is, all of that kind of came to an end when I was around 13 or 14 (so 2007ish for me).

Sorry for the long context there, but considering that I feel just a tiny bit lonely nowadays (even though I work in an office full of people... But I am sure you know what I mean), I would just love to get back into a chatroom and have a chat with random people, and maybe even make some new friends. However, I went on Google and searched for chatrooms and... Well... None of them seem all too safe, and it all just looks a bit shady. Obviously, I don't want shady!

Are there any modern chatrooms out there? Any you visit? Or is the concept of chatrooms dead? The idea of anonymous people just talking to one another? Really, completely dead? It certainly seems that way... Is the only way to experience something like that again to play an MMORPG? I wouldn't mind doing that either, now that I think about it.... But still, that's my question and I'll stick to it!
Not sure why anyone would think that the concept of chatrooms is dead online. Any forums for online chat which I've ever participated in online are not only still there but have more people in them now than they ever did at any point in time in the past. One good case in point is IRC, which is funny because despite it being extremely old and the protocols and software that implement it both on the client and server side, and all the addon technologies people use with it (services, bots, etc.) - many people claim IRC is dead. What makes this funny is that what they're really communicating is that they wish it was dead or perhaps just think it should be dead and are baffled by the fact that there are more people using it now than there ever was and it continues to grow despite their bafflement over it (probably from not using it themselves).

Log on to the Freenode network for example and visit any channel and in the majority of cases there are more people present than ever before. All this while many out there claim "IRC is dead". :) I'm not defending IRC nor tooting its horn mind you, but I do find it funny that people say things are dead simply because they do not use them or dislike them or have an opinion that the given thing is obsolete and people shouldn't use it anymore or similar when actual statistics for the given thing indicate very much the opposite is the actual case of what people are doing. :)

IRC is dead! Long live IRC! :)