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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)

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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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[-] CrunkBy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

well, the same as the others really: Time.

I think once SMS and phone apps became the norm over having Messenger apps on our Desktops all the time, that was pretty much it for these applications over all. It was a long, slow death. But MSN was one of the firsts to call it quits if I recall right. Oddly the IM app I liked the most. It's just not many of my friends used it. They were all AIM/AOL users.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The one thing these messengers had over texts was presence notifications. I remember jumping through hoops to get aim working on my Motorola v188 so that I could be notified every time my crush came online and I could send her a “hey what’s going on”… only for it to be ignored.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

I miss Adium, I used it for a bunch of protocols, and I customized the CSS/html to make it look really awesome.

I had an app called snakeskin or something to skin my Mac OS X to be dark themed.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Adium was awesome, that was the golden age of computing and the internet in my opinion.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

With Linux and other FOSS projects surging in popularity, I dare say we’re in for another.

But, sadly, companies don’t seem too interested in making good software for that sake of it being good anymore. Now it’s all about getting you hooked on an eternal subscription.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I certainly hope so. It’s been great seeing PopOS and Linux Mint pushing the bar on what a good linux desktop experience can be.

I’d love to see Linux become a stronger competitor to macos (which is what I’ve used for almost 20 years).

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Absolutely adore PopOS. I can’t wait for cosmic to be finished!

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The smart phone/blackberry i assume killed a lot of the IM apps

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