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#101 |
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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.
It was great for talking to school friends though. |
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#102 |
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I was actually talking about this with my friend the other day. When we used it, quite a few of our contacts were grown men, who would try and chat us up. Usually with the line "I'm 24 (or whatever age), that ok?". This was when we were about 13. They would also cam us, completely unconcerned by our ages.
It was great for talking to school friends though. Ah those were the days! |
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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 Back in the day there wasn't one that purely dominated as so many people were on AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN/Live Messenger every platform was very lively. Even IRC I find quite dead or at least the old places I used to frequent at least as I haven't used it in years for that reason. Whenever people that were on it never had spoken for days, 5 days worth of idling with some of them. Sometimes even longer. |
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#104 |
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ASL...
Ah those were the days! me: 13/f/uk guy: 27/m/uk, that ok? That happened so often, yet I brushed it off. Now when I think back, I feel completely skeeved
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#106 |
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I spent most of 2004/2005 using MSN, I miss it, actually. All of our friends used to use it after school. Facebook messenger is nowhere near as good. Quote:
guy: asl?
me: 13/f/uk guy: 27/m/uk, that ok? That happened so often, yet I brushed it off. Now when I think back, I feel completely skeeved ![]() |
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#107 |
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I never used it but I had a friend who did.
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This is one of the reasons that I avoided the chat rooms. I only ever spoke to people I knew from school,
Windows/MSN/Live Messenger was a different experience. |
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Even older, who remembers the Virgin chat rooms? I started there in 1999. Seems an age ago!
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Even older, who remembers the Virgin chat rooms? I started there in 1999. Seems an age ago!
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#111 |
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The Millenium bug. Remember that? There was no bug LOL! Remember when they said things would fall out of the sky.
The only reason little or nothing happened was precisely because steps had been taken to fix the "bug". |
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How? There were lots of things I had before 2000 that the clocks went to 00 and nothing freaky happened since you couldn't upgrade firmware back then. Or at least consumer stuff.
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How? There were lots of things I had before 2000 that the clocks went to 00 and nothing freaky happened since you couldn't upgrade firmware back then. Or at least consumer stuff.
"I did not personally own anything that was affected, therefore nothing was". |
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