Colégio Cristão

Júlia Nogueira de Oliveira

History of the Chats

Porto Velho, 2023

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Discord
Discord is an American VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the
ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in
private chats or as part of communities called "servers".
Game developer Hammer & Chisel, now called Discord Inc, initially created Discord for
the MOBA game Fates Forever.
The service has been popularized by eSports and LAN tournament players, including
popular users on the streaming service Twitch and gaming communities such as Star
Citizen. The company, which bears the same name as the service, was founded by
OpenFeint founder Jason Citron, who intends to keep the company independent.
In January 2016, Discord raised an additional $20 million in funding, including an
investment from WarnerMedia (then TimeWarner) In 2019, WarnerMedia Investment
Group was shut down and acquired by AT&T, selling its equity.
Microsoft announced in April 2018 that it will provide Discord support for Xbox Live
users, allowing them to link their Discord and Xbox Live accounts so that they can
connect with their Xbox Live friends list through Discord. In December 2018, the
company announced it raised $150 million in funding at a $2 billion valuation. The round
was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, Tencent, IVP, Index
Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners.
In March 2020, Discord changed its motto from "Chat for Gamers" to "Chat for
Communities and Friends", and introduced server templates. This was part of their
response to an increase in users as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of June 2020, Discord announced that it was shifting its focus from video games
specifically to a more comprehensive communication and chat client for all functions,
unveiling its new tagline "Your place to talk," along with a revised website. Among other
planned changes would be reducing the number of internal game jokes it uses in the
client, improving the user integration experience, and increasing server capacity and
reliability.
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Reddit
Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such
as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other
members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called
"communities" or "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top
of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page.
Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by
community-specific moderators, who are not Reddit employees.
Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis
Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in
October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's
parent company, Advance Publications.
After Huffman and Ohanian left Reddit in 2009, Erik Martin, who joined the company as
a community manager in 2008 and later became general manager in 2011, played a
role in Reddit's growth.
On December 13, 2020, Reddit announced it had acquired short-form video social
platform Dubsmash, hiring its entire team, with the intention of integrating its video
creation tools into Reddit.

Kakao Talk
Kakao is a South Korean internet company that was established in 2010. It formed as a
result of a merger between Daum Communications and the original Kakao Inc.
In August 2013, three of globally ranked top 10 Android games (according to analytics
provider App Annie) were tied into the KakaoTalk platform—Everybody’s Marble, Cookie
Run, and Anipang. Kakao Corp generated revenue of approximately $200M (USD) in
2013 through gaming, digital content, mobile commerce, and its marketing channels for
brands and celebrities. Kakao Corp. was named a Top Developer on Google's Android
Market, and KakaoTalk was chosen as the number one Free SMS App by Cnet.
KakaoTalk was nominated for the Most Innovative Mobile App Award at the Global
Mobile Awards 2014. Kakao Corp. agreed to buy Daum Communications Corp, to cut
costs and save time to jump-start growth and gain a listing in Seoul, South Korea.
When the announcement by the Korean government that it would tighten its real-time
monitoring to prevent people from spreading false information, the company cooperated
fully by providing reams of conversation data. KakaoTalk users expressed their
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displeasure at the censorship saying that they would migrate to other messenger
services. Because of this, as many as 1.5 million users are reported to have recently
signed up for the mobile messenger service Telegram, which is known for its security.

Telegram
Telegram Messenger is a globally accessible freemium, cross-platform, encrypted,
cloud-based and centralized instant messaging (IM) service. The application also
provides optional end-to-end encryption (popularly known as "secret chats") and video
calling,[10] VoIP, file sharing and several other features. Telegram was first launched for
iOS on 14 August 2013 and Android on 20 October 2013.
The servers of Telegram are distributed worldwide with five data centers in different
parts of the world, while the operational center is based in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates.Telegram's official components are open source, with the exception of the
server which is closed-source and proprietary.Telegram provides optional end-to-end
encrypted chats. Cloud chats and groups are encrypted between the client and the
server, so that ISPs and other third-parties on the network cannot access data. Users
can send text and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share an unlimited
number of images, documents (2 GB per file), user locations, animated stickers,
contacts, and audio files. Users can also follow channels.

Skype
Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from
Denmark. Friis and Annus are credited with the idea of reducing the cost of voice calls
by using a P2P protocol like that of Kazaa.
Skype originally featured a hybrid peer-to-peer and client–server system. It became
entirely powered by Microsoft-operated supernodes in May 2012; in 2017, it changed
from a peer-to-peer service to a centralized Azure-based service.
On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, S.à r.l for
US$8.5 billion. The company was incorporated as a division of Microsoft, which
acquired all its technologies with the purchase. The acquisition was completed on 13
October 2011.Shortly after the acquisition, Microsoft began integrating the Skype
service with its own products. Along with taking over the development of existing Skype
desktop and mobile apps.