Cheeseplant's House, frequently known as Cheesehouse, was the second Internet talker

Talker

A talker is a chat system that people use to talk to each other over the Internet. Dating back to the 1980s, they were a predecessor of instant messaging....

, and the first of its kind to achieve more than 100 simultaneous users (in January 1992). Created by Daniel "Cheeseplant" Stephens, it ran on the same University of Warwick

University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...

 Server/Port as the original Internet talker, Cat Chat

Cat Chat

Cat Chat was the first Internet / JANET talker, created in 1990 by Chris Thompson, who used the name "Cat" on the talker. It was based on the LPMud server code and was hosted at the University of Warwick. It was later replaced by Cheeseplant's House....

, after that talker's abrupt shutdown. It originated several important technical innovations in talkers. Through its popularity, it is credited with starting the "talker movement" and inspiring the ew-too

Ew-too

ew-too, short for Elsewhere Too, was the first publicly available code base for Internet talkers and was written by Simon "Burble" Marsh in 1992, following the demise of the second internet talker, Cheeseplant's House, which had been closed down some months earlier. It was based on the LPMud game...

 genre.

Technical infrastructure

Though it emulated the LPMud

LPMud

LPMud, abbreviated LP, is a family of MUD server software. Its first instance, the original LPMud game driver, was developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö...

-based command structure of Cat Chat

Cat Chat

Cat Chat was the first Internet / JANET talker, created in 1990 by Chris Thompson, who used the name "Cat" on the talker. It was based on the LPMud server code and was hosted at the University of Warwick. It was later replaced by Cheeseplant's House....

, and the ew-too

Ew-too

ew-too, short for Elsewhere Too, was the first publicly available code base for Internet talkers and was written by Simon "Burble" Marsh in 1992, following the demise of the second internet talker, Cheeseplant's House, which had been closed down some months earlier. It was based on the LPMud game...

 talker codebase that it inspired used LPMud

LPMud

LPMud, abbreviated LP, is a family of MUD server software. Its first instance, the original LPMud game driver, was developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö...

 as its infrastructure, Cheeseplant's House was written from scratch in C

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

.