Gchatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Gchat

1. (colloquial, historical) Google Talk.

   Synonyms: Gtalk, Gmessage

   • 2017 June 26, Colleen Rothman, “RIP Gchat”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-07-02:

     Let's first acknowledge that Gchat was never officially called Gchat. Launched in February 2006, Google named it Google Talk, refusing to refer to it by its colloquial name. For anyone mourning its demise, which the company announced in a March blog post, those names sound awkward, like they're describing something else. To me, and to many other users, it's Gchat, and always will be.

   • 2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, pages 62–63:

     "We're fucked," my adviser told me over Gchat. "Nelson"—Phil Nelson, the outspoken president of our university—"has been treating the endowment like his own personal poker game. I bet we're about to lose some unthinkable chunk of it. And if oil prices collapse, the campus in Qatar is in trouble."