Chat programs allow you to talk to many other people from around the world, extremely addictive, and extremely fun. Different Chating programs have their own special qualities, and my favorites are below. They may seem boring at first, but eventually you get into it.

Mirc - is a great program, that allows you to create your own script to chat with. Although you dont have Avatars or any pictures, it has other things like making your own chat room, or playing and trading wavs, pics, txt drawings, and other programs. Mirc has the most feautures to chat with and you find out new things you can do and play with all the time.

Comic Chat - Comic chat is sort of like Mirc but without the script and other features. Instead you get to choose from several different Comical people, like and Alien, or a Tiki guy and you choose an expressions, like sad or angry and send it to send to the chatting screen, which looks like a comic strip.

The Palace - This program is really fun, its a bit harder to meet people, but you get to explore thruough a huge palace, or other palaces people have made, with lots of rooms like, the beach, chess room, bedrooms, and a lot of others, where you can turn off lights and or lock the doors. You also get to personalize your body, which is a smiley face, with many different expressions and props, like hats, arms, shirts, sunglasses, etc. The entire program costs $25 ($15 if your a student) that allows you to completely personailize yourself to any picuture, even create your own entierely interactive world for others to enjoy, but the geust version is still a lot of fun.

Worlds Chat - this webpage has two different programs, in Worlds Chat you choose your avatar, which could be a kid, alien, butterfly, vampire, etc, or even your own and then travel around a space station. This program is pretty hard to talk to people with but a lot of fun, and a lot of hidden rooms and secrets. The other program available here is called Alpha World, I havent completly figured this one out yet, but I guess if you do, you can can travel around large citys and houses, and eventually make your own house!

Internet Games, are games you can play over the internet, all the ones listed below, also let you talk to the other people playing, and are VERY easy to use

PBTerm - The graphics may not be that great, but its a lot of fun. Its pretty much a PaintBall war, and you start off with $300 (after you email for your code) that you can spend on armour, camoflauge, weapons, etc. And then you go out to the battlefield to try and shoot the other players or bots. You can choose from several games to vote on and play, and if you win you get more money. When your not in a game your in a small circle with other players, that you can talk with chat room style, or go to one of the stores to buy more equipment.

MetalKnights - This game is constantly improving every day, from tons of info and suggestions from the common player, if you like strategy type games, this is as good of one you'll find!Begin py choosing from up to 100 maps, many created by fellow players then costimize time limits, players, maps, etc., or join a game made by someone else. After that you choose where you want your base on the map, and from there, buy soldiers to get more towns, and resources for money, or invent better plains, ships, or tanks. Then eventually try to kill the other players. One game can last for months, or a week, playing a turn every couple of hours. You can talk to the other players by sending them messages that they get when its their turn. Of course this well developed game has many other features, such as a Hall of Fame, and Alliances, or BBS chating!

HoverRace - This is a racing game, where your driving a hovercraft through one of 3 race tracks. It has nice graphics, and smooth racing. you start off in a chat room, with other people, and a list of races that you can join at the top of the screen, when the race you joined gets enough players, the race will start, and you try to beat everyone to the finish line, using skill, or missles.

Legal Crime - a great game, still in beta version, but not for long! you play the part of a corrupt gangster, racing to take as much of the city as you can for your benifit, using the money gained from those buisnesses to bribe different organizations and defend your town with various gangsters, in a vast real-time action race against other players on the internet, not knowing what they are doing at the time, a great game, and free!

SubSpace - a fantastic real-time game with superb graphics and sound effects! choose from several different spaceships and several different gaming environments for the skilled or the begginer and battle out against hundreds of other players from across the world, free to roam anywhere in the map, laying traps, mines, missles, or lasers in your path, constantly improving your ships weapons, and battling with your team, or choose to play many variations of capture the flag, or races to see who can kill the most in 15 minutes, a great game, I deffinatly recommend it!