title: BORGChat
text: BORGChat is a LAN messaging software program. It has achieved a relative state of popularity and it is considered to be a complete LAN chat program. It has been superseded by commercial products which allow voice chat, video conferencing, central monitoring and administration. An extension called "BORGVoice" adds word producing chat capabilities to BORGChat, the extension remains in alpha stage.
  
  History 
  BORGChat was first published from Ionut Cioflan (nickname "IOn") in 2002. The name comes from the BORG race from Star Trek: The Borg is a massive society of cybernetic automatons abducted and assimilated from thousands of species. The Borg collective improves by consuming technologies, in a similar way wishes BORGChat to "assimilate".
  
  Features 
  The software supports the following features:
   Public and private chat rooms (channels), support for own chat rooms
   Avatars with user information and online alerts
   Sending private messages
   Sending files and pictures, with pause and bandwidth management
   Animated smileys (emoticons) and sound effects (beep)
   View computers and network shares
   Discussion logs in the LAN
   Message filter, ignore messages from other users
   Message board with Bulletin Board Code (bold, italic, underline)
   Multiple chat status modes: Available/Busy/Away with customizable messages
   Multi language support (with the possibility of adding more languages): English, Romanian, Swedish, Spanish, Polish, Slovak, Italian, Bulgarian, German, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Czech, Danish, French, Latvian, Portuguese, Urdu, Dutch, Hungarian, Serbian, Macedonian.
  
  See also
   Synchronous conferencing
   Comparison of LAN messengers
  
  References
  
  External links 
  Official BORGChat website
  10 Best Free Chat Rooms
  
  LAN messengers
  Online chat