Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Asynchronous communication" in English language version.
Email and Internet Chat provide a good example of the difference between synchronous and asynchronous technologies. Email is generally responded to at the discretion of the user and hence is described as asynchronous. However, when in a Chat session each participant knows that the others are waiting for their responses. The resulting "conversations" are synchronous [...]
The term asynchronous is usually used to describe communications in which data can be transmitted intermittently rather than in a steady stream.
The term asynchronous is usually used to describe communications in which data can be transmitted intermittently rather than in a steady stream.