What Happened to Talk City?

If you were online in the 1990s, you may remember Talk City: a big chat community with themed rooms, personal home pages, hosted events and friendly volunteers in the rooms. It went quiet after the dot-com years, like many sites of its time.

Is This the Same Talk City?

No. The Talk City you are reading now is a new service that opened on 13 August 2026, run by Eastwood Media PTY LTD in Cape Town, South Africa. It uses the old name, but it has none of the old rooms, members, hosts or history. We are not the people who ran the original, and we do not want to give the impression that we are.

What It Is Now

Today's Talk City is a one-on-one random video chat for adults. You allow your camera, press start and talk to a stranger, and Next moves you on. It runs in the browser and needs no account. It has much in common with the sites that came after the old Talk City, and little with the chat rooms it was known for. If you are deciding between it and the other sites that took Omegle's place, see our comparison of Omegle alternatives.

Looking for the Old Site?

We have no copies of it. The personal pages people built on the old Talk City, and its rooms and event transcripts, are not here and cannot be recovered through us. The Internet Archive is the best place to look for them.

If you have memories of the original or questions about this site, we would be glad to hear from you.