When you went to a room this is what you saw when you entered. A bunch of yellow boxes with names on them. This was intimidating the first time I ventured in, because I wasn't really sure just how to get people to TALK. But once I figured it out I had no problem! That didn't take long and before I knew it I had stacks of messsages lined up waiting to be answered. Chatting never was a problem with me ;)

Just what was going on in the waiting room was anyone's guess, unless someone accidentally sent messages to the whole room! Now that was funny! I also learned to double check the message before I sent it to make sure you knew who it was going too! INN was a blast but it did have some kinks in it ;)

Just how did it work you ask? Ok maybe you don't ask that..but I'll tell you anyway. See those Yellow boxes?  Hiding under them was a toon of the person. It was like a little bio of them. You clicked on one of the blue boxes on the right, like look and then the persons name and it brought up the little bio of that person. If you wanted to talk , you clicked on talk. If you wanted to play a game with that person , you clicked on invite. And hopefully they would accept your invite! Clicking on GOTO took you to another room..or a chat room within the room you were in...like the Trivia Chat room! Confusing? Naaaaahhh..not for an INN'r..

You could always choose to go to a chat room too! Chat rooms were where we played our trivia games. Click here to go to the next stop on our tour.. the
Trivia Haven Chat room!

But first look at the ALT faces below

The Rooms in the Clubhouse looked like this...
THE WAITING ROOM
One of the fun things on INN was the Emoticons or "Alt Faces" Each number on the keyboard was assigned a face. So pressing alt and that number got you a face. This was so easy to get used to. My personal favorite was the alt 7 key - sarcasm :p ANd once we were off INN and on AOL or IRC  it was hard to not type those alt 1's all the time. We ended up having to switch to the sideways faces ;)
ALT KEY FACES
1 - Smile          2 - Sad            3 - Grin        4 - Crying          5 - Kiss


6 - Mad             7 - Sarcastic          8 - Winks            9 - Hearts
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