This research aimed to investigate the uses of the written language in the Internet chatrooms and in similar virtual discourses, examining the heterogeneity, affluence and complexity ofthe language in those means as well as demonstrating as the traditional dichotomy betweenspoken and written discourse has been unmade regarding the peculiar features of these newdiscursive forms. The virtual chat came up trough Internet advent and its written code hasrevealed a new relation of the man with writing once it has brought up linguistic innovations, hasdetached language as a phenomenon of linguistic diversity and differences and has madelinguistics to realize how theoretically irrelevant has been the acclaimed spoken/writtendichotomy. For the initially described aims, this research based its theoretical perspective in thelanguage uses, which points out language as a heterogeneous and dynamical phenomenon.