Omegle
You might remember it as talk to strangers
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2009·Early YouTube
A site that paired two strangers at random for a conversation, with no registration.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- talk to strangers
- Spread in
- 2009
- Made by
- Leif K-Brooks, who was eighteen
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A site that connected two people at random with no accounts and no history. It defined a decade of stranger-chat culture and closed in 2023; the archive holds it as platform history rather than as anything to recommend.
Why it matteredWhat changed
It ran for fourteen years and closed in the settlement of a lawsuit brought on behalf of a child abused by a man she met there.
TimelineIn order
- Made
The site is launched.1
- Later
Video is added.1
- Taken down
K-Brooks announces that the site is closing.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things