fortune was built, and class-action lawsuit was born, on the fingers of tens of thousands of unpaid volunteers.__Call them volunteers, remote staff, or community leaders - they are the human face of AOL. Six months ago seven former AOL community leaders asked the Department of Labor to investigate whether AOL owes them back wages.We are actively working to rectify the issue." Monday: am - Midnight Tuesday: am - Midnight Wednesday: am - Midnight Thursday: am - Midnight Friday: am - pm Saturday and Sunday: am - pm NOTE: Chatroom hours are Eastern Time Zone.Please be advised that Live Chat will be closed for Holiday observances on the following dates: Martin Luther King Jr.

Web conferencing is a more specific online service, that is often sold as a service, hosted on a web server controlled by the vendor.The first online chat system was called Talkomatic, created by Doug Brown and David R.Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois.Online chat in a less stringent definition may be primarily any direct text-based or video-based (webcams), one-on-one chat or one-to-many group chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), talkers and possibly MUDs.The expression online chat comes from the word chat which means "informal conversation".