chatsite

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chatsite (plural chatsites)

  1. Alternative form of chat site
    • 1996, Spider Robinson, Callahan’s Legacy, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 218:
      I have been vaguely aware of them almost since their inception—my permission was informally sought and cheerfully given, back in 1989 (on the sole condition that nobody else would commercially pub- lish fiction involving the Place or its denizens)—and from time to time, over the years, some fan would send along a few dozen pages of printout from one or another of these newsgroups or chatsites or home pages.
    • 1997, Julie Watson, Infertility on the Internet: How to Get On-Line and in Charge of Your Fertility, Crestwood, Ky.: Conceiving Concepts, Inc., →ISBN, page 61:
      The first is the Infertility Internet Chatsite: []
    • 2001, Jonathan Lorie, Amy Sohanpaul, editors, The Traveller’s Internet Guide, WEXAS, →ISBN, page 156:
      TRAVELOGUES, CHATSITES & NEWSGROUPS [] Travelogues and chatsites
    • 2009 January, Mohammed Shobrak, Khalid A1 Husaini, Abdullah A1 Suhaibani, “Bird Electrocutions in Saudi Arabia”, in The Phoenix, number 25, page 5:
      This mass mortality was first noted by KAH about 100 km south of Jeddah on 25 August 2008 and he drew attention to the incident on the Makshat chatsite.
    • 2009, Mark Bartram, Business Result: Pre-intermediate, Teacher’s Book, Oxford University Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 52:
      In addition, young people watch, play, and communicate over a range of media – they watch TV but also clips of programmes on video sites; they talk to their friends through chatsites, emails, text messages, and mobiles; they play games on PlayStations, on PCs, and online.
    • 2013, Johan Kugelberg, Back from the Grave, page 65:
      Garage comps have now been around for that duration, and in this age of the cultural event-horizons on file-sharing sites and lo-co-dem mis-information in chatsite trolldom, whowuddathunk that the expert consumer guides of yore executed an aesthetic narrative that will reign evermore?
    • 2013, Peter Lentini, Neojihadism: Towards a New Understanding of Terrorism and Extremism?, Cheltenham, Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, pages 45 and 86–87:
      The universe of Movement websites, chatsites, online videos, and so on, constitutes a source of propaganda, inter-Movement communication, and provision of instructional and educational materials. [] Indeed, the proliferation of various militant websites and chatsites, Inspire Magazine, and other media activities indicate that his was not the only voice guiding or contributing to The Movement and its development.