Chatroulette is a website based on videoconferencing, whose originality lies in the randomness of the participants. Visitors begin randomly to chat with a stranger, at any time leaving the conversation to start another. Chatroulette was created to talk and to meet people from other countries, it is a very welcoming place to which you must enter and get to know its people. Description
Chatroulette was created by Andrej Ternowskij, a 17-year-old student from Moscow, Russia, and it started operating in November 2009. It went from having 500 visitors per month to 50,000 in a month. By March, Ternovskiy estimated 1.5 million visitors, a third of whom came from the United States.
The website uses Adobe Flash to show the webcam. The P2P flash network allows almost all video and audio streams to travel directly between users' computers, without the need to use the bandwidth of the server. In March 2010, Ternovsky ran the site from his bedroom, with the help of four programmers working remotely. After an initial growth phase funded by an investment of $ 10,000 from their parents, the site is supported by advertising links from an online dating service.
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