17-year old, Andrey Ternovskiy from Moscow, Russia, created a website called Chatroulette. The purpose of this website is video chatting with random people from anywhere in the world. You do not need to create a username or password, nor do you need to provide an email address or your age. Chatroulette embraces the concept of absolute anonymity, which accounts for a large part of the website's appeal. Chatroulette's popularity, as well as its infamous reputation, has grown exponentially since its début in November of 2009.

A web camera is required to play, but you can only view whatever your partner chooses to show you on their side of the camera - face, body, inanimate object - it's their decision. Their camera shot is depicted on the left side of the computer screen, and directly below theirs is your own. On the right of the screen your conversation is recorded. If you become sick, bored, or revolted by your current partner, you may click the "next" button at the top of the page, and poof, your chatting partner disappears, and is replaced with another. It's a gamble of a game indeed.

When the website was first launched it had about 500 visitors and by early 2010 the number of users rose to 1.5 million. The Chatroulette website utilizes Adobe Flash to display video as also access its users' webcam.You can find more information, about chatroulette , and screenshots, on our site.