The creator of your new obsession: ChatRoulette.com

Back in the prehistoric days of Internet promiscuity, before watchdog groups such as NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” corrupted the pastime of many mid-western meth/chatroom addicts, the Internet was a lethargic realm full of curiosity, but without the speed to unleash its true possibilities.
I remember my days as a young lad, where my friends and I would wait eternities for a file transfer over AOL Instant Messenger to showcase pictures of girls in our social networks, posing in manners that undoubtedly ensured an underage decapitation had daddy ever found out. Thanks to what seems like IT centers located throughout India and other third world countries willing to learn English and deal with pissed off Americans, our internet capabilities are now brimming with potential, allowing chat room socializing along with webcam speed dating to engender an outlandish love child.
With the NFL season now laid to rest and “The Bachelor” in its’ final week of brainwashing girls who still believe they will get married to a rich guy while simultaneously remaining in that lucky 50 percentile of the population who don’t get divorced, you will, without question, be spending more time in front of your computer screen, wandering aimlessly through the world wide web.
Before you know it you’ll be engaging in a bizarre new phenomenon known as chat roulette, a website which allows people to connect and communicate with a random assortment of zany strangers through a webcam and the choice of microphone or keyboard. Basically, picture a virtual e-Harmony shuffle experience starring the distant cousins of Venice Beach performers, abiding by the rulebook of worldofwarcrafthorndogs.com, and in a nutshell you have chat roulette.
Once you log onto the site and begin your adventures in this cyber circus, you will find that as chaotic and strange as it may be, you are entirely in control. You will find yourself face to face with an Austrian gamer who is prancing in the nude, flailing around like a set of Mardi Gras beads. Not to worry, with the click of a button you have escaped this sexually deranged being only to discover a mildly chubby American dressed in knight’s armor, with a falcon perched atop his shoulder, requesting that you submit Gandalf’s password before proceeding. Assuming you’re not down with this friend of Frodo, you can just click next again and come under the spell of someone comparable to norotious extrovert, Jake Turley, armed with his guitar, taking requests or just freestylin’ fresh off the top of his head.
What mad cyber scientist created this you might ask? None other than Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old high school student from Moscow, Russia. Ternovskiy put together this website in his spare time for mere pleasure based off his prior knowledge of HTML code, which he began writing at age 11.
After growing tired of video chatting with his small group  of friends on Skype, Ternovskiy wanted to expand this concept to an entirely new platform, essentially in pursuit of Skyping with the random people displaced throughout the planet. He never had any business intentions with the site and actually has yet to let the foul stench of Capitalism erode his precious freak show as he keeps advertising to a bare minimum with four links located at the bottom of the page.
Thought you were “going places” because you got that unpaid internship taking lunch orders for a bunch of bankers this summer? This kid can’t even buy smokes and currently runs and maintains seven high-end servers based out of Frankfurt, Germany to support the flood of users ChatRoulette.com receives week after week. He plans to expand his operation in the near future, most likely transferring its headquarters to the U.S., but as of now any real development of the site will take place internally with new features to be added in the near future. One can only imagine how this Soviet success looks to further accommodate the oddities that lurk the site’s bandwidth, but nonetheless it should make things even more entertaining.
Ternovskiy’s minimalist ways and open mindset may keep the site’s intentions true, which, at the core of things, are really open to individual interpretation. It’s a blank canvas for curious webcam owners. Some people flaunt their genitalia, others role-play in bizarre costumes and others showcase artistic talents through music and art, but at the end of the day everyone is just doing what they want to do.