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Who remembers the glory days of MSN?


Joe the Stoic

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It absolutely messed up my computer. 

As a joke I changed my MSN Username to omething ridiculous like "I AM A BAD GUY BUT GOOD ON THE INSIDE" and then MSN closed, and that is stuck as the login name for my computer like... TEN YEARS LATER AHHHHH

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I even remember the MSN Communities days, and their switch to MSN Groups. Yeah, I feel old now, too.

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If you're daring… There's a "fix" called Messenger Reviver that reactivates it, I've given it a try once. It's nearly impossible to add pure Skype contacts though, and only Windows Live Messenger 2012 works.

 

Yes, I miss it too.

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Grumpy Alien

No one I knew ever used MSN. We used AIM. (And AOL before AIM existed.)

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Oh yes, AOL. Either you were on AOL or you wanted to be. I never was...

Let's not forget about the NetZero days, while we're at it. abQS78J.gif

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WOW I miss AIM. did anyone else try to flirt with the chatbots when they were bored? 

 

I mean, I haven't done it...... i was just wondering.....

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Grumpy Alien

I honestly never understood the point of chatbots

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I used MSN to keep in contact with my friends in Europe.  I grew up with AIM in the US, but around the time I moved to Europe in '08, most of them didn't use AIM anymore. So, I made them move temporarily to MSN to keep in contact with me ;) But all my friends in Europe chatted via MSN. 

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22 minutes ago, Starscream said:

Oh yes, AOL. Either you were on AOL or you wanted to be. I never was...

Let's not forget about the NetZero days, while we're at it. abQS78J.gif

Don't forget about Lycos, bruh. 

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2 minutes ago, kingcakedonut said:

Don't forget about Lycos, bruh. 

Ah yeah. Lycos, wasn't it also Angelfire? And let's add Geocities and Netscape to that list...something else? xD

 

I had so many email addresses back then, specifically from email.com because they had such cool domain names to choose from.

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Mezzo Forte

I remember really enjoying MSN when I was younger, but once everyone converted to Skype/AIM, I basically couldn't use the service anymore. Facebook Messenger seems to have taken the place of IMing in general nowadays, which is too bad since I don't really care for Messenger that much.

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nd tlkn lyk dis? Haha not to mention all of the damn emoticons and sparkly text.

 

Who else changed their font to something almost impossible to read?

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On 3/19/2017 at 8:46 PM, kingcakedonut said:

Sup gurl

 

A/S/L?

I was always getting some random Indian guy calling me "beb" and that he "gives top chat" :blink:

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I used to use it when I was in secondary school, back when everyone would set miserable song lyrics as their status to show everyone how angsty they were :P

 

Oh and the dancing banana emoji! That was my favourite!

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On March 19, 2017 at 9:42 PM, borkfork said:

I had ICQ :P

It was ICQ that had the high-pitched "uh-oh!" sounding alert, right?

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I used to have my ICQ number memorized. I wonder if I can get back into my account. Damn, I don't even remember the email address I used. Guess I'll have to try them all! And, yeah ICQ is the one that made that "Uh oh!" sound. :lol:

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Well, I tried email/password recovery on ICQ for 5 of the email address that I might have used, and none of them were in the database. Oh well. :lol:

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