LAN messenger LAN messenger A LAN Messenger is a instant messaging program for computers designed for use within a single local area network (LAN). Many LAN Messengers offer basics functionality for sending private messages, file transfer, chatrooms and graphical smileys. The advantage of using a simple LAN messenger over a normal instant messenger is that no active Internet connection or central server is required, and only people inside the firewall will have access to the system. A precursor of LAN Messengers is the Unix talk command, and similar facilities on earlier systems, which enabled multiple users on one host system to directly
The Centre for Computing History from programming workshops using 1980s BBC Micros to gaming tours to coding using software like Scratch for the Raspberry Pi. The centre also loans artefacts for film and TV productions and has helped with props and sets for "The IT Crowd", "Brits Who Made the Modern World" on Channel Five with Peter Snow and in April 2009 produced the "Gadget Hall of Fame" stand at "The Gadget Show Live" exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. The centre collects and preserves historical computing related artefacts and has undertaken a project to preserve the data from the BBC Domesday Project and make