Thread: I'm a CHAT dummy! Please help

I opened the chat tab last evening hoping to learn and possibly participate in the resto chat. I have to admit never having been on a chat program before and I was TOTALLY LOST. Try as I may I could not figure out how to get past the rapidly progressing one liners. Is there a wiki to figuring this chat thing out. Or am I too old for such things?

i think the 'one liners' are the actual chat - they start with the screenname of the person and are in different colors so that they can be navigated easier.
then below that there's a box where you can type what you want to say and it will appear among the other one liners when you submit it.

it's a text chat, not an audio conference, sorry if that's a bit confusing
on the up side we have plenty of really old guys (e.g. glen and doc) who use it, so it's not too bad.

Originally Posted by gugi

on the up side we have plenty of really old guys (e.g. glen and doc) who use it, so it's not too bad.

Oh man that was just WRONG WRONG WRONG !!!!!


"Hey Kid, Get OFF My Lawn"

Originally Posted by mkevenson

Is there a wiki to figuring this chat thing out. Or am I too old for such things?

Of course there is: Using the SRP Chat - Straight Razor Place Wiki.

And no, you are not. I am pretty old myself, and can still use it. Admittedly, I use a dedicated chat client rather than the chat interface on the site you used.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Oh man that was just WRONG WRONG WRONG !!!!!
"Hey Kid, Get OFF My Lawn"

Hm. Are you going to give me one of your gazillion Ducks if I promise not to post the chat logs? You know, the ones where we were discussing chat clients...?

If they are really old, what does that make you Gugi? :

Thanks all. I knew that there must be a WIKI, even tho I have no idea what WIKI really stands for. Hey maybe there is a wiki to explain what wiki stands for. I'll get it yet.

"Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is," but this is a backronym.

BeBerlin, thanks. You learn something new every day. Oh and I printed the WIKI on SRP chat room. Wow, I'm sure that it will take me the rest of my life to figure it all out. So many options. Can I just take a pill?

The easiest to install is probably Chatzilla for Firefox. If I were you, I would try Pidgin, though. No need to bother with the rest of the clients. Good luck!