On the eve of Y2K, the extent that computers are interwoven with our lives is painfully obvious, yet only relatively recently has the academic eye taken interest in the events going on on-line. Despite this attention, there still remain new frontiers that have not been explored on the Internet. The phenomenon of real-time interaction is the best example of these. Some commentaries have treated the social aspects of MUDs, a special subspecies of real-time interaction, but more pure textual conversations have not been examined closely.
This paper seeks to remedy this. I will, by necesity, place my investigations into the frame of the Internet at large, and discuss websites, e-mail and newsgroups. I will focus, however, on data from real-time interactions which use text as their only channel of communication.
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