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Early 2000's: Good old MSN messenger - first thing you would sign on to after getting back from school
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Still call them that
Back then we can even use MSN to chat Facebook Messenger which is a bonus. Now it can’t anymore.
I actually still have the nudge sound!
good times! :')
First thing I do is I turn on that thing that shows what song is playing on my computer and the second thing is updating my status to some lyrics. Because attention.
Nah, I tried AIzm & ICQ (Uh-oh!)
I have no positive nostolgia for old chat systems. All I ever saw was gooners & coomers asking ASL & not caring if you were under 18.
I definitely get where you're coming from. But I met a few online pals through YIM and AIM chatrooms back in the day. Definitely had fun staying in touch with long-distance pals over them back in the early 2000s. I think without it, there wasn't a lot of communication with people from other countries going on.
2000s: MSN 2010s: Skype 2020s: Microsoft Teams
The funniest part was you’d go home and chat to people you see at school everyday. And get excited when the notification would pop up. Kinda cute thinking back.
Never used it. I was yahoo and aol
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I was rockin' Prodigy Interactive Personal Service until like 1993 then AOL became a thing for me. I have fond memories of the UX of Prodigy, like the weather page or the games, or the online encyclopedia. It was like $9 per hour to use Prodigy for DOS, so I couldn't stay on long.
Closest it had to chat were the 'bulletin boards'. Unfortunately they had a very weird censor automod bot thing that would ban you from a category (like history) for mentioning the 'Roosevelt Dime' (Roosevelt was a 'popular' name) or a wildlife page would ban you for saying 'beaver'.
Between MSN, AIM, YIM and ICQ, I think those were all of the big ones in IM.
I actually think I liked Yahoo's messenger best. And their chatrooms were pretty legendary back in the day. ICQ was popular with a lot of people who got into IM early on I guess, the OGs. AIM was probably the most popular and the one I talked to the most people on. MSN was kind of in a weird space, I think maybe people used that more for business IMs, especially with the Skype integration that came later.
My mother used to use Yahoo! Messenger on her flip phone back in like 2006 because it was free for Cingular customers. She still uses Yahoo! Mail to this day (and has shortcuts to every website she visits littering her desktop because she never caught on to typing 'google.com' into the URL bar)
For me it was AIM…but same sentiment lol
This is where my wife and I would chat before we even dated. We'd talk about the dumbest shit and change our usernames or profile pictures to kind of hint that we liked each other.
Used Webchat Broadcasting System (WBS) ASL? Any one?