Omegle is a free online chat website that allows users to socialize with others without the need to register.

The service randomly pairs users in one-on-one chat sessions where they chat anonymously using the names "You" and "Stranger" or "Stranger 1" and "Stranger 2" in the case of Spy mode.

The site was created by 18-year-old Leif K-Brooks of Brattleboro, Vermont, and was launched on March 25, 2009.

Less than a month after launch, Omegle garnered around 150,000 page views a day, and in March 2009 the site introduced a video conferencing feature.

The site now provides a mobile application that lets users chat with strangers from mobile devices.

Videotelephony comprises the technologies for the reception and transmission of audio-video signals by users at different locations, for communication between people in real-time.

A videophone is a telephone with a video display, capable of simultaneous video and audio for communication between people in real-time.

Videoconferencing implies the use of this technology for a group or organizational meeting rather than for individuals, in a videoconference.

Telepresence may refer either to a high-quality videotelephony system (where the goal is to create the illusion that remote participants are in the same room) or to meetup technology, which goes beyond video into robotics (such as moving around the room or physically manipulating objects).

Videoconferencing has also been called "visual collaboration" and is a type of groupware.

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.

The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.