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What do these terms mean?

Here is a brief glossary of chat terms:
bulletrooms: rooms are the particular places on the chat servers where user gather to converse with one another. It is a good metaphor because a typical chat server has hundreds of different rooms, most of them usually described by user interests. It is also possible to create private rooms for other purposes.
bulletop: op is short for operator. Some chat servers allow users to be ops in order to control the flow of conversation in the room. The op would have a special window in his or her chat client that would allow the op to remove users from the room, for example.
bulletnick: to identify users on a chat server, and to make sure that all of the users have unique identities, a system of nicknames is used. Before logging on to a chat server, the user will be asked to choose a nick to uniquely identify him or her.
bulletkick: kick is just one example of the commands available to ops. An op can kick another chat room member to temporarily limit that member's use of the chat room.

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Last Updated 06/05/2006