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24-410: Google Chat is a communication service developed by Google . Initially designed for teams and business environments, it has since been made available for general consumers. It provides direct messaging , group conversations, and spaces, which allow users to create and assign tasks and share files in a central place in addition to chatting. It can be accessed through its own website and app or through

48-497: A Space, as well as integration with Task creation and Calendar availability. By the end of 2022, the Spaces team size limit will increase to 25,000. Spaces are discoverable across an organization and a Space's creator is the default manager of the space with the ability to delegate manager status to another user. The move from Rooms to Spaces also brought improvements in moderation and security features. In February 2022, Google rolled out

72-448: A matter of "tagging" a user in a post. The rise to prominence of Twitter from its launch in 2006 gave rise to using the at sign ("@") as a description for directing a public post to a particular user, especially for the purpose of replying to another user's post (i.e., "@janedoe"). Only after the usage of @ as a visual means of directing posts to specific users gained currency among Twitter users did Twitter developers begin to integrate

96-635: A new Gmail interface for Workspace that was designed to better integrate Spaces as well as Chat and Meet. Spaces will gain increased functionality because Google Currents was shut down on July 5, 2023. Communication software Communication software is used to provide remote access to systems and exchange files and messages in text, audio and/or video formats between different computers or users . This includes terminal emulators , file transfer programs, chat and instant messaging programs, as well as similar functionality integrated within MUDs . The term

120-575: A post in order to indicate a reply. Ultimately, they became colloquially known as "@replies" for their primary usage as replies to other users' posts. Twitter added support for "@replies" beginning in May 2008, with any combination of @ with a username being turned into a hyperlink to the profile. On March 30, 2009, Twitter updated the feature and renamed it "Mentions" (i.e., to "mention" user "@janedoe") so as to include non-reply posts directed at individual users. Beginning September 2009, Facebook integrated

144-643: A similar change for Hangouts Meet , the Hangouts brand was removed from Google Workspace. Google first announced their plan to begin retiring Google Hangouts in October 2019. In October 2020, Google announced that it would open Google Chat up to consumers in 2021. Google also announced that Hangouts conversations, contacts, and history would be migrated over to Google Chat. Google Chat began to roll out to consumer accounts in "early access" in February 2021, but at

168-475: Is a chat room feature built within Google Chat for topic-based collaboration, with shared files, tasks and conversations. It functions alongside Google Chat and Google Meet to integrate group productivity features like message threading and real-time collaboration to organize topic-based conversations without exiting Gmail. The feature revives the brand name previously used in a similar standalone service of

192-416: Is also applied to software operating a bulletin board system , but seldom to that operating a computer network or Stored Program Control exchange . E-mail was introduced in the early 1960's as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Basic text chat functionality has existed on multi-user computer systems and bulletin board systems since the early 1970s. In

216-685: Is not possible with group conversations, and they allow users to only be notified when they are mentioned . Each space has three tabs, a chat tab for chatting, a files tab for sharing files, and a tasks tab for creating and assigning tasks. The service is accessible from within Gmail alongside Chat and Meet as part of the Google Workspace expansion to all Gmail users. With the relaunch, Spaces allows up to 8,000 users to collaborate on projects and use other Workspace features such as creating Google Drive documents and Google Meet meetings from within

240-656: The Gmail website and app. It was first launched as Hangouts Chat on March 9, 2017, as one of the two apps to constitute the replacement for Google Hangouts , the other being Google Meet . It was renamed to Google Chat on April 9, 2020. It was initially only available for the Google Workspace software suite, but in February 2021 Google began rolling out Google Chat in "early access" to regular consumer accounts until it became fully available in April 2021. Google deprecated

264-504: The Internet boom , web chats were very popular, too. Chatting is a real-time conversation or message exchange that takes place in public or in private groupings called chat rooms . Some chatrooms have moderators who will trace and block offensive comments and other kinds of abuse. Based on visual representation chats are divided into text based chat room just as were IRC and Bitnet Relay Chat , 2D – supporting graphic smilies; and 3D

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288-504: The 1980s, a terminal emulator was a piece of software necessary to log into mainframes and thus access e-mail . Prior to the rise of the Internet, computer files were exchanged over dialup lines, requiring ways to send binary files over communication systems that were primarily intended for plain text ; programs implementing special transfer modes were implemented using various de facto standards , most notably Kermit . In 1985

312-399: The @ sign as a fundamental conversational tool on the site. Initially, @ was used by Twitter users occasionally as shorthand for other words, such as location or time. The first person to use @ as a description of directing a post at another user was Robert S. Andersen ("rsa") on 2 November 2006; initially, this usage made use of a space between the @ and the name, followed by a colon and

336-452: The at sign as a mentioning feature; typing "@" in a post automatically initiates a drop-down autocomplete list containing names of "friends", groups and pages , which, after one being selected and the post published, links to the profile, group or page. @-replies started being used on Misplaced Pages around 2013. YouTube started introducing @-handles in late 2022. Distributed social networks and federated networks may use two at signs,

360-427: The conversation in which takes place in 2D graphic surrounding. Mention (blogging) A mention (also known as @replies or tagging) is a means by which a blog post references or links to a user's profile. This may be done as a matter of getting the attention of (or drawing attention to) another user of a social networking or blogging service, as a matter of replying to the other user's post, or as

384-442: The final migration of all Google Workspace customers from Google Hangouts to Google Chat, which is scheduled to be finalized in May 2022. In September 2022, Google announced all Hangouts data would be deleted by January 1, 2023. In December 2023, Google began to roll out a version of Google Chat with a redesigned sidebar and updated the logo. These changes made Google Chat more productive and integrated artificial intelligence into

408-473: The first decentralized chat system was created called Bitnet Relay , whereas Minitel probably provided the largest chat system at the same time. In August 1988 the Internet Relay Chat followed. CU-SeeMe was the first chat system to be equipped with a video camera . Instant messaging featuring a buddy list and the notion of online presence was introduced by ICQ in 1996. In the days of

432-464: The latter to indicate the instance/server which the mentioned users resides on. Example @janedoe@mastodon.social mentions the user janedoe on the server mastodon.social. The plus sign ("+") was utilized on Google+ to select a user or page. TinyMCE , an online rich-text editor supports mentions via the Mentions plugin. CKEditor , an online rich-text editor supports mentions. GitLab ,

456-413: The main content. The first to propose a general syntax for directly addressing users in posts were Ben Darlow and Neil Crosby, and by January 2007, more Twitter users began to take notice of the practice with various degrees of acceptance; within the year, the convention trended toward combining the @ and a Twitter username (as opposed to a real name) and prepending the combination to the beginning of

480-521: The original Hangouts and replaced it with Chat on November 1, 2022. Google Chat was first launched as Hangouts Chat on March 9, 2017, for Google Workspace (called G Suite until October 2020) customers only as a replacement for Google Hangouts . All G Suite packages had identical features except for a lack of Vault data retention in the Basic package. On April 9, 2020, Google rebranded Hangouts Chat to Google Chat. Following this rebranding, and along with

504-413: The same name from 2016 to 2017, with the rebranding occurring as part of the expansion of Google Workspace to all users in 2021. Spaces are designed for collaboration on long-term projects. In contrast to spaces, group conversations only support chatting and do not have any task functionality or a separate files tab to view a list of shared files. Spaces also allow users to change the name of the chat, which

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528-512: The service. Google Chat is divided into two sections, chat and spaces. The Chat section contains direct conversations with other people and group conversations. In addition to be able to access Google Chat from its website and app, Google Chat can also be accessed through its integration with the Gmail website and app. In May 2022, Google announced that Chat would display banners warning users against potential phishing and malware attacks coming from personal accounts. This development for Google Chat

552-546: The time Google stated that Hangouts would remain a consumer-level product for people using standard Google accounts. By April 2021, Google Chat became fully available for free as an "early access" service, for users who choose to use it instead of Hangouts. In August 2021, Google started automatically signing out Google Hangouts users on iOS and Android and notifying them to switch to Google Chat. Google planned to deprecate Google Hangouts and replace it with Google Chat in early 2022. In February 2022, Google announced plans to begin

576-595: Was the latest attempt to prevent phishing and security breaches for users. In July 2023, Google added new features to attain feature parity with other widely used instant messaging . The new chat features include: smart compose (also available in Gmail and Google Docs), editing & deleting of messages for consumer accounts (previously restricted to Google Workspace accounts only), message quoting, read receipts in group chats, text hyperlinking, hiding inactive conversations, ability to add apps from Google Workspace Marketplace for more features. Spaces, originally called Rooms,

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