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Anyone remember the old MSN Chat?
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Bazzie
23-11-2016
Bit late to this, but anyone used to go in the over 40s and over 50s?
jp761
23-11-2016
Back in the day MSN lost me jobs, women and sleep!! I gained more women from it though lol
hazydayz
24-11-2016
What a great time that was. The good old days. Back when you could find people just a few streets away from you and ............magical things happened in real life
Harvey_Specter
24-11-2016
Mr Doppolina's Quiz Room.
molliepops
24-11-2016
Didn't use chat much as we were using dial up anyone remember that

The groups were good though many animal charities started up in them, I adopted two dogs through the groups system.
The Lemon
24-11-2016
Originally Posted by Papa Rat:
“MSN got rid of it thanks to the PC brigade saying peodphiles were always on it targeting kids. IMO it was a knee jerk reaction and Microsoft missed out as they would have easily incorporated a social network had they just waited 2 more years. They would have had the biggest social network.”

Oh yes.....many a happy hour spent there in the wee small hours
Bazzie
04-12-2016
Don't you agree Facebook is no match for the chat rooms?
Lou Kelly
04-12-2016
I used to frequent trivia rooms in both MSN Chat and MSN Groups (used to be called MSN Communities). They closed the chat rooms first and moved them into internal Groups then the Groups quickly followed with closures.

I miss them
swingaleg
04-12-2016
yes, msn chat was much better than the other ones

it always seemed like when you were chatting to your friends on the other ones unknown Americans used to turn up uninvited and join in and ask who everyone was..........nightmare !

at least with msn there was control over who was invited in !

also remember the equivalent of msn forums........we had one for 'When ds is down' because the forums used to crash a lot more often in the olden days.......you could go on there and make sure it just wasn't your computer.......
rfonzo
04-12-2016
I used it once to cofactor my father when he abroad. I just never got into it. Was it any good and what topics of conversations came up.
RunawayGroom
05-12-2016
Originally Posted by Star_Bright:
“Who remembers the Chat Rooms in Yahoo Pool? Ahhhh, the memories.”

Yahoo pool. How i miss thee


I do miss the internet of the early to mid 2000s. There was just something special about it.
Harvey_Specter
05-12-2016
Originally Posted by RunawayGroom:
“Yahoo pool. How i miss thee


I do miss the internet of the early to mid 2000s. There was just something special about it.”

It probably isn't that the internet is so different now or what it offers but rather it's relative 'mass' infancy and you would probably have been in your late teens and found it opened up avenues of communication and friendship that wasn't there before.
The Amazing
05-12-2016
I do really miss the Yahoo! chat rooms. I used to literally stay up all night talking, particularly in the movie rooms. I remember receiving (and occasionally indulging) requests to 'cyber' which I never really took seriously (think "I put on my robe and wizard hat"). I gained a proper old school penpal in one of the music rooms that I would exchange actual hand written letters with for years. I often think of looking her up...
Harvey_Specter
05-12-2016
Originally Posted by Lou Kelly:
“I used to frequent trivia rooms in both MSN Chat and MSN Groups (used to be called MSN Communities). They closed the chat rooms first and moved them into internal Groups then the Groups quickly followed with closures.

I miss them”

Do you remember any quiz rooms called...

Quizzical, Mr Doppolina's Quiz Room, Quiz Chat...
Anonimus
05-12-2016
Why did they stop it?
GusGus
05-12-2016
Didn't MSN Messenger just morph into Skpe?
My OH and I chatted for hours on Messenger, annoying when it kept dropping out but it was from here to Belgium
That was ten years ago, still together
Lou Kelly
05-12-2016
Originally Posted by Harvey_Specter:
“Do you remember any quiz rooms called...

Quizzical, Mr Doppolina's Quiz Room, Quiz Chat...”

I haven't heard of them sorry. the ones I frequented were I Know This One and The Trivia Room
Lou Kelly
05-12-2016
Originally Posted by Anonimus:
“Why did they stop it?”

MSN said it was too expensive to police the chat rooms and cited, "safety" as a reason to move the rooms into internal Groups for the Managers to police their own rooms. They then got rid of Groups citing "safety" too!
Tether
05-12-2016
Did anyone ever have Trivium? It was a software that allowed you to make quizzes for the AOL chat rooms. Does AOL still exist?
Ovalteenie
05-12-2016
I was on Yahoo Chat rooms for a couple of years around 2000-2002
postit
05-12-2016
I have very fond memories of PowWow and before that, Prodigy.
ChipDouglas82
05-12-2016
I remember it fondly, the good old days!

Got chatting to someone who I now consider to be one of my best mates through MSN Messenger.

I think it started to die a slow death once it changed its name to Windows Live Messenger.
RunawayGroom
05-12-2016
Originally Posted by Harvey_Specter:
“It probably isn't that the internet is so different now or what it offers but rather it's relative 'mass' infancy and you would probably have been in your late teens and found it opened up avenues of communication and friendship that wasn't there before.”

That is true mostly but it also did seem like another world at the time and not part of the real world as much as it is now and people did not take everything as seriously as they do now. It was also before twitter took off which i have never liked. And that and its toxicity has had a damaging affect on the web. Even if you don't use it you cant escape it.
SonOfPurple
06-12-2016
Only ever used MSN occasionally as this was the pre-smartphone era when I had to be physically sat in front of a computer to use it. Post-millennium I had the nursery slope of WAP phones which had dedicated mobile-friendly social pages (Mopilot for instance) and it's staggering to think something once so futuristic is now decidedly retro... O'course, nowadays I'm all about yer Twitter, with longer screeds dumped elsewhere (DS for one), but it'd be nice to have some sort of one-on-one conversation function back...
zoepaulpenny
06-12-2016
Originally Posted by Odd Socks:
“MSN chat is how I met my husband ”

That man is also how I meet my deceased partner
So sadly missed .. also miss MSN I was good in the day
Even the video calls were great .
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