The category of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) systems encompasses any computer-based system for communication between humans, including non-interactive systems (email, Usenet, weblogs, etc.) and real-time interactive systems, whether text-based (Unix "talk", lily, IRC, ICQ, AIM, etc.) or multimedia (voice chat, video conferencing, etc.). The RPI-ACM extended community has a long history of creating new real-time interactive CMC systems (see LilyGenealogy).

-- DevenCorzine - 03 Nov 2003
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