Gchat was simple, elegant, and most importantly, focused. That’s all gone now. Beyond just Slack, Google was five or six years ahead of WhatsApp, GroupMe, and Facebook Messenger on offering a ...

Let’s first acknowledge that Gchat was never officially called Gchat. Launched in February 2006, Google named it Google Talk, refusing to refer to it by its colloquial name. For anyone mourning ...

Technically speaking, GChat is not the name of a Google product; GChat is actually a slang term for Google Talk, the free instant messaging app that until. Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo.

Gchat’s run as the king of adult instant-messaging started back in 2005. For those of us just getting into the web around then, it was a perfect platform: Your tech-inept parents weren’t on it ...

This is important. Gchat is ruining your life. And mine, too. As I type these words, four boxes flash an enticing blue atop my inbox. They cover about two-thirds of my unread mail and they beg for ...

Gchat was born the day after Hurricane Katrina: Aug. 24, 2005. The latter made landfall in Louisiana a few days later, thrashed cities and killed people and became shorthand for catastrophe and ...

Well, Google unveiled Google Hangouts in 2013 with the intention to replace Gchat. But they gave users the option to continue to use the “maybe I AM emailing, who’s to say” Gchat format.

Let’s first acknowledge that Gchat was never officially called Gchat. Launched in February 2006, Google named it Google Talk, refusing to refer to it by its colloquial name. For anyone mourning ...

Gchat first launched in 2005 as a hip alternative to AOL Instant Messenger and it persisted due to its simplicity and ease of use. Google will still offer its other instant messaging platform ...

Although everyone and their grandmother has accepted the (not trademarked!) colloquialism “Gchat” much in the same way the word “retweet” originated, Google insists that the official term ...

Do you even remember a time before Gchat? Before you could just glance to that little sidebar to the left and click who-so-ever you chose to be the target of your ranting? Be it work-, friend ...

Gchat Is a Noble Pursuit: Tao Lin’s Modernist Masterpiece True, his characters are young people living in Brooklyn. And he writes about the Internet.