CHAT APPLICATION IN LOCAL AREA NETWORKS NETWORK (LAN) ORIENTED INTERNET BY USING THE MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0

With the growing advances in computer technology, the more developed also other technologies that support forward technology, such that telecommunications technology. With the combina tion of both technological progress above, then apart from the existence of local networks (LAN), there is a global network for the entire world kind an internet network that is very fortunate in telecommunications channels in use. Internet is one medium that has many uses and benefits, among which, the Internet can be used as a means of chatting. Chatting in the beginning is a tool that utilizes the internet network is useful as a medium of communication and exchange of information. However, in its development, chatting for most people is only useful as a means of entertainment only. Furthermore, the chat is only developed for the Internet network and can not be done in a local network using the communication media is local (LAN). Given the above problems, the authors use the Winsock authors utilize existing facilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, which is used as an interface between computers in a network that each computer can communicate with each other. Means of a special chat to apply in the local computer network (LAN) connected or not into the internet network is a software application that is used instead of the xisting chat software.