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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that’s what the college kids were playing with when I was in high school.

Started college in 1995, and I indeed did have ICQ before too long. Still remember my number (6725571).

You probably had all three installed on your computer and probably all running at once.

I remember using a program called Trillian (which is still around!) in the late 90s/early 00s. It allowed you to connect multiple IM accounts in one app. It was sorta finicky, but it got the job done.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I haven't thought of those apps for years, I used Pidgin! I had to look up the program name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pidgin was dope

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Pidgin is still around too afaik.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I still use Pidgin, because I still have some old work related contacts who use Skype, and I'd much rather use Pidgin than keep Skype around. It will do discord too but it's a bit kludgey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It will do discord? That's amazing, I will have to look back into it. Discord has been awful for a while, but getting people to switch is impossible. 😩

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It will! There's a plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Blast from the freaking past! Wow, you just unlocked some memories for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Emesene and pidgin were great! :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Trillian was amazing, until it was overtaken by malware. At least that's what my antivirus at the time said. Also, proprietary, so I passed on it after finding pidgin.