In the late 1990s, AOL's chat rooms were some of the most popular in the world. Q-Link changed its name to America Online (AOL), which still uses the People Connection name for its chat and community services. PlayNet eventually licensed its software to a company called Quantum Link, or Q-Link, which launched a chat room service called People Connection. Users could play chess or backgammon against an opponent and talk trash at the same time. In the mid-1980s, a company called PlayNet began tinkering with the combination of real-time chat and online games.
Users could exchange real-time messages (loaded with lots of CB slang) on 40 different channels, which later evolved into the concept of rooms. Launched to the public in 1980, the CB simulator capitalized on the explosive (if short-lived) popularity of citizen's band radio culture in American country music and movies. But the CompuServe CB simulator is widely regarded as the first real-time chat room.
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