Shoutbox

A Shoutbox (SB ), a tagboard or an electronic notice board is a small area (usually private ) web offerings, which acts as a kind of mini - book and thus closes the gap between Guestbook / Forum and a real chat.

A Shoutbox is usually integrated into a small area of the website and is periodically reloaded in order to display newly added content can, so that responsive communication is possible. For a basic functionality no active content such as Java applets or JavaScripts must be displayed by the web browser.