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Anyone remember the old MSN Chat?
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Whedonite
06-12-2016
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.”

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.
Harvey_Specter
06-12-2016
Originally Posted by Whedonite:
“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.”

ASL...

Ah those were the days!
CappySpectrum
06-12-2016
Originally Posted by GusGus:
“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”

More like merged. To this day I had lost all my contacts from the merge to the popularity of Facebook. Even when I sign into Skype to see there are zero contacts online. Today it seems if you aren't on Facebook or Twitter you don't exist. Or at least the impression I get.

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.
Whedonite
06-12-2016
Originally Posted by Harvey_Specter:
“ASL...

Ah those were the days!”

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
Mark.
06-12-2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGJUKaaLU4
mimicole
06-12-2016
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.


Originally Posted by Whedonite:
“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 ”

This is one of the reasons that I avoided the chat rooms. I only ever spoke to people I knew from school,
cnbcwatcher
06-12-2016
I never used it but I had a friend who did.
CappySpectrum
06-12-2016
Originally Posted by mimicole:
“This is one of the reasons that I avoided the chat rooms. I only ever spoke to people I knew from school,”

I always remember this being the worst on ICQ as I was never in chat rooms like that. The chat rooms I was in were gamers which was IRC networks.

Windows/MSN/Live Messenger was a different experience.
Bazzie
07-12-2016
Even older, who remembers the Virgin chat rooms? I started there in 1999. Seems an age ago!
CappySpectrum
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Bazzie:
“Even older, who remembers the Virgin chat rooms? I started there in 1999. Seems an age ago!”

The Millenium bug. Remember that? There was no bug LOL! Remember when they said things would fall out of the sky.
Mark.
08-12-2016
Originally Posted by CappySpectrum:
“The Millenium bug. Remember that? There was no bug LOL! Remember when they said things would fall out of the sky.”

That was possibly an exaggeration, but the issues were very real.

The only reason little or nothing happened was precisely because steps had been taken to fix the "bug".
CappySpectrum
08-12-2016
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.
Mark.
08-12-2016
Originally Posted by CappySpectrum:
“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.”

Brilliant logic.

"I did not personally own anything that was affected, therefore nothing was".
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