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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 month 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] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was in highschool in the 2000s in Europe, and msn was our default way of communication with classmates.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, early 2000s in the UK and everyone was using MSN. I didn’t know a single person using AIM or ICQ!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I can see why AIM would be mostly an American phenomenon, given it was initially a feature specific to AOL. ICQ...I like to say I'm 10 minutes too young to have used ICQ, everybody who has wistful memories of it were like the seniors when I was a freshman. Yahoo! was the other one; the perpetual alsoran.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Ditto for us in Australia