GayDotCom

Starting in early 2006, a major chat system used by locals, www.gay.com, with a client downloaded from www.gayboi.com. It came later, and was much easier to configure and install, than the IrcChannel. There's a history of the system itself in the Wikipedia.

Halifax guys hung out in:

• Men
• Men-International Floor
• Nova Scotia/NB/PEI rooms

Early on, there was a desktop client available. In late 2008, gay.com upgraded and in March, 2009, the chat client stopped working.

Unverified: the early technology was IRC with a web (and client) front end.

History

ChatClient is a client for the chat system, gay.com with added features.

As of March 25, 2004 there were client versions for these systems:

• Windows 95,98, NT4.0 (Service Pak 3 or greater), 2000, ME and XP
• Macintosh OSX, Macintosh OS8.x , 9.x PPC
• Linux GTK 2.0+ and libstdc++.so.5 required. Doesn't work on all Linux, but it's closed-source so you really can't help it sometimes.