Are chatrooms officially dead?

I was a huge outcast in high school, so I remember coming home everyday from school, going right to the chatrooms, and staying there for hours. When I graduated, I started college; I still logged on and chatted a lot, but not as much as I did before.

I transferred to another college in 2005 and moved in with my dad, and he had wireless, so I never had to log into anything like AOL anymore...it was just clicking on Internet Explorer and jumping right to Google any time I needed to look something up. I downloaded AIM and Yahoo and chatted with my normal friends, but it's been years now since I've been in a chat room. I don't hear anyone else talking about them either.

Are they officially gone? Have they been replaced with cellphone Texting and message boards like these? But you can't just text to a random phone number or come onto one of these message boards and expect an immediate one-on-one conversation, so I would think people would still be interested in them. Is it just me, or has everyone else given up on chatrooms?