Once upon a time a woman turned 30 and thought to herself, "It's high time that I learned how to use this internet thingy that I've heard so many folk speak of". So, she went to the computer shop and came home with a brand new, shiny lap top, with heaps of power and an inbuilt modem, with which she proceeded to connect to the world wide web.

At first, the web seemed a strange place. The woman was dazzled by the array of information she discovered there. In confusion she stumbled from super highway to super highway, until she chanced upon a place called The Halloween Party. This was a room containing an odd assortment of folk from around the globe. They were a welcoming bunch, and soon began teaching the woman the value of such things as chat etiquette, and how to extract meaning from large groups of odd letters.

Thus began the woman's initiation into the strange world of chat, and thus began her addiction to this past time. Now you too can share the addiction. All you have to do is read through the pages of this web site, and you will learn why strange and mysterious forces continue to lure weary web travellers into a life devoted to chat ...