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I never knew anybody who used it. I had one contact on ICQ. Everybody else used AIM.
I don't even know what AIM is, everyone in Brazil was on ICQ and MSN, if you were a kid or teen you were on MSN, if you were an adult you were on ICQ.
I was in highschool in the 2000s in Europe, and msn was our default way of communication with classmates.
Yep, early 2000s in the UK and everyone was using MSN. I didn’t know a single person using AIM or ICQ!
Ditto for us in Australia
In the UK MSN was pretty ubiquitous.
I think this is another one of those cases where the US does something different to the rest of the world: the majority of people were using msn messenger but the US was using aim.
Remember when icq could message aim users though? That was so badass.
MSN could do the same with Yahoo Messenger users, for a while at least.
remember trillian? or pidgin was it called? you could message every service.
that was badass.
Pidgin still seems to active lol
https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/
Wonder who still uses it.
I actually forgot all about that, but yes I did use Trillian at one point. Can you imagine big tech companies letting you use third party apps that didn't lock you into their service or ad stream these days?