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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)
submitted 2 months 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] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used that until they pay walled it. Then I found Pidgen I believe it was called. It was open source and could connect to pretty much every messenger and IRC and stuff. Then my friend just switched to texting lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pidgin. Before that it was called Gaim.
It still works, as there are plugins to integrate it with almost everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Gaim was the way I used MSN from Linux back in the day.

I miss that era.

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

I knew it wasn't spelled exactly like the bird lol. But yeah I used that shit for years. I don't really have a use for it anymore or I'd probably still be using it

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

I used it all the way up until Google broke compatibility with it, then continued using it with a third party plug-in until that stopped being maintained.

Now I prefer Signal over Chat.

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

"A pidgin /ˈpɪdʒɪn/, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages."

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

Oh that's cool. I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!

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

Always thought it was a great name choice.