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MSN Messenger - Did you use it?

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  • 22-03-2019 12:14pm
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    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭


    Ah the days of MSN messenger, a simpler time. So, did you use it, do you have fond memories of your chats? Does it still exist actually? I was just thinking to myself that over the years we've lost our anonymity on the internet. You used to exchange email addresses and chat, now you exchange mobile numbers and chat. A profile picture of yourself is normal whereas it wasn't necessarily on MSN.



    I was thinking that everything seems to be moving towards the social media side of things, I used to belong to a CF forum years ago but it seems that everyone is in facebook groups now, that doesn't appeal to me as I prefer to post with some anonymity and so I don't know anyone with CF anymore.



    When I first joined weight watchers it was a forum style like here but the last time I signed up it was like weight watchers facebook and you couldn't just ask a question and get an answer, and people were posting up wedding photos and all sorts of crap I didn't want to have to wade through, it was like having a facebook feed.



    I don't know, am I just getting old and longing for a simpler time? :P


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    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    ASL?

    Cyber?

    *Drops pants*


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    petes
    Registered Users Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    irc was where it was at


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    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    I used to use it all the time. Chatted to a few friends and also randos I met in chat rooms, had many an interesting conversation with them.

    Ah chat rooms, they were so popular back in the day. The whole instant chat was an exciting thing too.


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    Mike Oxlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭Mike Oxlong


    Bebo was where it was at !!


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    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    ASL?

    Cyber?

    *Drops pants*


    Ah sweet memories, you see that's what I'm talking about. The good old days :pac:



    I wonder do the young folk even know what cybering is :D


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    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Was more an IRC man myself. mIRC was where all the cool kids were.


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    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    Mike Oxlong wrote: »
    Bebo was where it was at !!


    Giv me ur Bebo luv bbz xx


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    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,126 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    petes wrote: »
    irc was where it was at

    For nerds.

    ICQ was where the cool people (And russian scammers) went.


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    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Succubus_ wrote: »


    I wonder do the young folk even know what cybering is :D

    Lets show them.

    **I Put on My Robe and Wizard Hat**


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    GBX
    Registered Users Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Used it a lot. Nudging away to my hearts content! :D


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    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,429 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    I still use it, 5 days a week, in it's current guise as Lync or Skype for Business :)


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    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Succubus_ wrote: »



    I wonder do the young folk even know what cybering is :D



    2 middle aged men tearin' the handle off themselves while convinced the other or both is a 14 year old boy / girl?


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    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    I used to use it all the time. Chatted to a few friends and also randos I met in chat rooms, had many an interesting conversation with them.

    Ah chat rooms, they were so popular back in the day. The whole instant chat was an exciting thing too.


    I met my missus in a chat room ten years ago, we were being grammar Nazis. It was meant to be :pac:


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    BeerFarts
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭BeerFarts


    Met my wife on Oceanfree chat back in the day. MSN messenger was the follow up chat we used every day. Fond memories of them.


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I worked for AOL at the time and had MSN, AIM and ICQ as my main source of entertainment!


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    #17
    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    Imagine if boards had a chat room, I'd love it! I guess a moderator's nightmare but I think it would be good craic.


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    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,923 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Bring back IRC


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    BeerFarts
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭BeerFarts


    Succubus_ wrote: »
    Imagine if boards had a chat room, I'd love it! I guess a moderator's nightmare but I think it would be good craic.

    I always thought it was a step backwards when chat rooms started to disappear. They were great in finding randomers to talk to and perverts to piss off.


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    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    BeerFarts wrote: »
    I always thought it was a step backwards when chat rooms started to disappear. They were great in finding randomers to talk to and perverts to piss off.


    Me too, nothing like having conversations with randomers. There always were the weirdos but sure you just ignored them.


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    #21
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Remember some people used to constantly log in and out so that they'd be popping up on people's screens. Trying to get their attention or something?

    'Appear offline' was a good one to get out of chatting to people you were avoiding.


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    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    oceanfree.net FTW!


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    #23
    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    Remember some people used to constantly log in and out so that they'd be popping up on people's screens. Trying to get their attention or something?

    'Appear offline' was a good one to get out of chatting to people you were avoiding.


    I'd be in a sulk if I logged into MSN and whoever I fancied at the time didn't say hello to me first :pac:


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    Relikk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Relikk


    Oceanfree was a huge part of my early twenties. Really missed it when it ceased to be. MSN was the next big thing during and after Oceanfree. Kangochat was a rubbish alternative that paled in comparison, and had an idiotic admin with en ego the size of Jupiter.


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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭OU812


    Have no idea why they retired it.

    Was on AOL first as had more friends on that, that went by the wayside also. The thrill of being online & getting a bing because someone logged on & it was now morning where they were in the US.

    Moved later to another app called Trillian which could talk to both MSN & AOL (& some others) without needing to have all the apps open.


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    #26
    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    I know apps like kik exist where you don't exchange numbers but usernames instead but as far as I know you have to add someone to use it so you have to know the person already. Also, apps like kik seem to have a reputation as being used by married people to have affairs.


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    #27
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,666 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    MSN Messenger was great but then they tried to make it into a social media app and replaced it entirely in the end with Skype (which is still going - not the same as Skype for Business/Lync/Teams either)

    There was a plugin you could get (Plus!) which stripped back a lot of the shyte and removed ads, but the decline was already underway :(

    These days I prefer Viber to Whatsapp and don't do Facebook - but yea, good times! :)


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    #28
    DelBoy Trotter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭DelBoy Trotter


    I started out with Yahoo chat rooms which led me to download Yahoo Messenger (I might my first long term girlfriend in a Yahoo Dublin Chat room! We chatted for months before finally meeting up, and then we ended together for four year!). Yahoo Messenger began to die off as people moved to MSN Messenger. I used MSN Messenger for years, but when it all moved towards Skype the whole IM thing was dying off


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    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Yep I used it a lot way back when, particularly with one ex of mine. We were on it chatting with each other for hours in a day.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #30
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,126 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    BeerFarts wrote: »
    Met my wife on Oceanfree chat back in the day. MSN messenger was the follow up chat we used every day. Fond memories of them.

    Did you have the same username back then?


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    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,651 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Msn was the only reason I had a hotmail address. Used in the uni library to gather people from the 2 libraries or the various computer rooms to go to the bar. It was pretty handy for my year in the States too.

    What is\was CF?


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