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March 2007: the origin published by the network
ChatZona dates its creation to March 2007 on its official history page. This is the source for its origin, rather than a copyright year or directory registration date. The project describes a free conversation community with a presence in Spain and Latin America.
Geographic and interest-based rooms form part of that development: country and city channels coexist with leisure, conversation, game and radio spaces. People arriving for different reasons can share infrastructure without joining one general conversation.
From early webchats to browser access
Its technical account lists successive webchat generations: Java, CGI, AJAX and Flash solutions, followed by Kiwi IRC and HTML5. These are stages in the published history, not recommendations to install obsolete components unsupported by modern browsers.
The same source describes adapting InspIRCd to the network’s needs. A web client is the access interface; the IRC server and identity and channel services have different roles. Changing an interface does not by itself create another network.
The published team and each room’s permissions
The team page checked lists Command for strategy, Stigia for human resources, Jacobo for operations, and Borja and Spiky for technology, alongside coordinators and operators. These are public team roles; the list does not establish that each nickname legally owns the entire network.
Room moderation is distinct from infrastructure administration. Official help asks users to have a registered nick and submit a channel for administrative review when registering it. Before introducing a bot, room-operator permission must accompany compliance with network policies.
Nicks, rooms and useful help
Help links email-based nick registration, the NiCK and CHaN manuals and room creation. It also identifies #Opers_Help as a help channel and provides a generator for embedding a webchat in another website.
A visible nickname does not prove ownership. Register and identify your account using network mechanisms, keep credentials out of channels and consult current help to resolve a removal. Its documentation directs g-line issues to its contact service; reconnecting through a bouncer does not grant permission to evade them.
What statistics do and do not establish
The netsplit.de profile records monitoring of Chatzona since July 2017. That measurement start differs from the community’s documented March 2007 creation. Its profile displays observed connections and rooms with corresponding sampling dates.
To compare activity, consult the current figure and observation period. Concurrent users are not unique individuals or a provider’s customers. This guide does not turn growth statements on a historical page into a permanent current ranking.
Sources and verification date
Information checked on 2026-10-14. Historical facts are distinguished from changing statistics. Consult current policies before connecting a client, ZNC or bot.