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I also found How to Write a Chat Server by Brian Slesinsky or Poor man's webchat by merlyn rather interesting for writing chats. If you want a more complete Poor man's webchat, you could go to http://www.fabiani.net/ -> Downloads -> 3. Strat's Chatwebserver

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