Who remembers the days of MSN Messenger?

JVM2020

Back in the 2000s was MSN Messenger as Social Media

It was brand new at the time and transforming of lifestyle as we would all come Home and go on MSN Messenger on our PCs. Many of us will be old fogies now from this.

Trolling was big too with impersonation of others in order to harm others but now they've taken it to places like Instagram and Facebook.

Domain was MSN before going to Hotmail and finally it is all Outlook now.

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Reply 1

username5857626

Yes, remember it well. Mad.

Reply 2

PinkMobilePhone

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Yup, and Yahoo Messenger

Reply 3

JVM2020

Original post by Bronfenbrennerzy

Yes, remember it well. Mad.

It was quite mental. 2010 is when I remember last using it.

We couldn't educate youth on Social Media then. Now we can.

Reply 4

gjd800

Mid-late 90s was when I first started using these things

Yes. Good times.

Original post by black tea

Yes. Good times.

The group chats were fun in those days. Everyone gathering together.

There were some bots you could mess about with too.

Security was minimal on there. Nowadays we have Multi-factor authentication and other forms of security.

I remember a guy hacking my MSN account in 2007 and I successfully made a new one which he was never aware of.

Reply 7

black tea

Original post by JVM2020

I don't think we ever had group chats

Reply 8

Sabertooth

I liked the "listening to...." plugin so I could show off my awesome music taste.

(edited 2 years ago)

Reply 9

JVM2020

Original post by black tea

I don't think we ever had group chats

There were available on Messenger

You could drag anyone in who was online.

Reply 10

gjd800

Original post by black tea

I don't think we ever had group chats

Got added to tons. about 300 people in them haha

Reply 11

username5857626

Original post by JVM2020

It was quite mental. 2010 is when I remember last using it.

We couldn't educate youth on Social Media then. Now we can.

This honestly makes me feel old xD I was 9 then, used it around 2012 I think.

Reply 12

JVM2020

Original post by gjd800

Got added to tons. about 300 people in them haha

when I first had Messenger capacity was I think 100 for friend list. Then it got bigger in capacity so you could add more.

(edited 2 years ago)

Reply 13

gjd800

Original post by Bronfenbrennerzy

This honestly makes me feel old xD I was 9 then, used it around 2012 I think.

I was 23 in 2010 :lol:

Reply 14

username5857626

Original post by gjd800

I was 23 in 2010 :lol:

Time flies, that was the year of the world cup and everyone singing 'the waving flag' non-stop. It was great.

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username5875312

joined in year 5 left just before started year 10 basically when FB took over completely
group chats, minesweeper flags, nudge button, sending mp3 files taking an hour, super slow webcam speed, remote assist (but not really understanding what its for), putting one liners in your username status, saving custom emoticons to your collection