Creation
With the impending closure of Excite's Virtual Places a new chat venue was needed to house the soon displaced users of that service. Initially the chief software engineer for Excite chat service, Tom Lang, proposed a subscription based service using the Virtual Places software, but received no response from Lotus Software regarding a license. After two months without word, the subscription based service idea was considered dead. Development of an alternative chat venue, by Mike Parniak, using original software rather than the existing Virtual Places software began in mid-2001. Two months into the creation of what would later be known as Voodoo Chat, Lang finally received word that he would be granted a license to use Virtual Places for his subscription based service. Development of Voodoo Chat continued despite the removal of Lang's obstacles, and the first version of the chat opened in December 2001.
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