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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Remember when icq could message aim users though? That was so badass.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

remember trillian? or pidgin was it called? you could message every service.

that was badass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Pidgin still seems to active lol

https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/

Wonder who still uses it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

MSN could do the same with Yahoo Messenger users, for a while at least.