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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[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

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

I miss that era.

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