Free Chat Software

Trillian - Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings. Without stealing your home page and with no other included software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications.
Download           OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP           

GCN - You can use GCN to: Video and voice chat with friends and family, Communicate on AIM, MSN, Yahoo and ICQ, Send and Receive E-mail between members, Play games and draw together with friends, Share documents, music, and photos, Browse the Web, and listen to MP3s, Meet new people in the GCN Chat Rooms, Create and administer your own Chat Rooms, Apply new interfaces through GCN skins, Communicate privately and securely, Translate languages, and much more!
Download           OS: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP           

NetMeeting - Using your PC and the Internet, you can now hold face-to-face conversations with friends and family, and collaborate with co-workers around the world. NetMeeting's audio and video conferencing features let you communicate with anyone on the Internet. The whiteboard lets you collaborate in real time with others via graphic information. Chat lets you conduct real-time conversations via text, with as many people as you like. File transfer lets you send one or more files in the background during a NetMeeting conference. NetMeeting's Program Sharing feature lets you flexibly share multiple programs during a conference and retain greater control over the way they're used. Remote Desktop Sharing lets you operate a computer from a remote location. NetMeeting uses three types of security measures to protect your privacy.
Download           OS: Windows 95/98/NT            Size: 2.3Mb

Active Worlds - 3D Chat, Virtual Reality Building Platform. Active Worlds, the web's most powerful Virtual Reality experience, lets you visit and chat in incredible 3D worlds that are built by other users. Think you have what it takes to build your own world or Virtual Reality game? Active Worlds is the place for you, where in minutes you can create fascinating 3D worlds that others can visit and chat in. The Active Worlds Universe is a community of hundreds of thousands of users that chat and build 3D virtual reality environments in millions of square kilometers of virtual territory. Take a quick look at some of our satellite maps and see how our community has grown over the years. Launch the free software and come check us out for yourself. You'll be amazed at how vast our Virtual Reality universe is.
Download           OS: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP           

PINO 3 - This chat software is a client/server system and consists of PINO 3 and PINO 3-Server. It offers almost all features a hardcore chatter does wish for. You dont need to play with cryptic commands (although also supported; even if not that cryptic :) ) but you can do everything by a userfriendly GUI. Even if you already know PINO 2 you will be impressed by PINO 3, because it offers the same featureset of PINO 2 and much much more fancy stuff.
Download           OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP            Size: 770Kb

WorldsPlayer - Payer for 3D entertainment portal worlds.com. Choose your planet, choose your face, unfasten your seatbelt. Choose from over 100 different humans, animals, characters and strange creatures! You can then walk around the worlds, explore the different worlds, see, chat, and interact with people, send email, animate yourself, and shop the store - all in 3D! List of Basic Features: A huge selection of avatars: many human, human-like and animal. Text chat with whisper & mute. Numerous viewpoints that you control: The camera that follows your avatar can be set in 1st or 3rd person and at different positions and varying speeds. Discussion groups you can join at a click of a button - Let's talk about… Free, anonymous email - send and receive mail to your Worlds.com username account @3dcd.com. Get easily acquainted with other users by viewing the Personal Info they chose to share. Keep track of your Worlds.com friends via the Friends list: you'll always know when your friends are online! Teleport instantly to new locations via the map, or follow a friend to join her/him instantly. Listen to music within Worlds.com. Worlds.com is constantly evolving - get automatic upgrades. Explore Worlds.com's Web-of-Worlds™ easily using WorldsMarks, which are much like Bookmarks & Favorites in your Web browser. Check out all the interesting 3D spaces, and try to find some hidden rooms… Enter contests and win prizes.
Download           OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP           

MICA - This freeware is a chat system consisting of a MICA Server and clients. It allows its users to send instant messages over a TCP/IP network (including but not limited to Internet).
Download           OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000            Size: 461Kb

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