And what was the state of Linux when proprietary instant messaging apps were popular?
:) :| :/ :_ :__
(Y)
Wizz and the general sounds of MSN were fun, but maybe it’s just because I was younger.
For Linux, Pidgin was solid.
Everyone’s saying this like Pidgin was Linux only but I used it for years on Windows.
On Windows, there was Trillian!
I used trillian but switched to pidgin on windows back in the day. Trillian wasn’t the only option on windows.
I used Trillian for a few years before going to Pidgin because it was much lighter on my system, both were on Windows.
It was great because none of them secured their protocols.
Everyone on Linux just used Pidgin and you had all your contacts and chats on every service all in one client.
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I started with Trillian on Windows and eventually went to Pidgin on Windows because Trillian was a resource hog when I used it. Fun times. Now everyone’s just unified on Discord, lol.
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I used Pidgin every day for about 15 years on Windows. Different times. Sometimes it feels, better times.
Can confirm. I used pidgin for MSN.
:| should absolutely not have been big, wide-open eyes. That would be O_O. :| should be absolutely stonefaced, like an old Korean getting their photo taken. Zero facial expression, signifying “i am not amused” or somesuch.
Where my ICQ friends at?
Uh-Oh!
I still remember my ICQ number! You can contact me at 38969359
Dang! Don’t know my number, but my screen name was the same back then.
And lol meant lots if love ❤️
“Honey your grandfather died lol”
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Forgot the most important:
🍆💦
B====D~~~
( . Y . )
back then implying the stone age
Listen here, fucko. Some of us are still in denial of our midlife crises
hahahaha
The heart should be symbolized by <3 not (L)
I’ve only been seeing <3 for about 10 years. Back in the MSN days it was (L) all the way.
(_) it was escapism from a crap IRL, 2000s kicked my ass but AIM and MSN were my save haven from a bad teenhood (0_o );
I always knew (*) as the cat/dog butthole.
My favorite bit of trivia on this subject is that in Perl, if you have something list-like with lots of potentially empty values where the length isn’t the same as the number of things in the list, you can force list context and get a quick count by assigning to an empty list.
The end result is the unofficial “buttse” operator:
=()=.
Back then?
ಠ_ಠ
There was Pidgin for multipurpose IM. But it was ugly and didn’t have the functionnalities that mess.be gave your MSN Messenger with Messenger+.
To have those functionalities there was Kmess. It gave you username colours, chat while offline, etc. And it was (for the time) visually pleasant !
I’m quite surprised. The website still exists !!! Kmess Website
