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Jan 17, 2014 11:45 PM
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mellowcreme
icq for lifeee.
StillChasingFireflies
MSN remembers.
subliimetiime
does anyone remember yahoo messenger? the little characters we could send people!!
doublefistmistress
MSN Messenger let you play games, like chess. So take that, AIM and Yahoo.
demat
Skype is no worthy successor. I SHALL MAKE A WORTHY SUCCESSOR.
TheRarispy
I SHALL BE THE WORTHY SUCCESSOR.
barlcarks
Seriously, I would really appreciate if you did. Skype is instable and incapable of offline messages...
SusanGoGetMyPants
I am still using the same email from when I was 15. I used it to contact job apps before realizing I used "Cupcake Cult" instead of my name.
ShadowXII
I miss MSN. It was such a massive part of my online life.
Lucky24NA
Carefully crafted AIM away messages!
davosonion
Full of song lyrics with color and special fonts
rawrily
Especially the taking a shower away messages full of sexual innuendos
ifinallyfeelathome
I'm hot, wet, naked, and it's getting steamy in here. I'm just in the shower you perverts!
ablownmind
I remember when they'd use the %n thing and it would place your screenname into it...I always fell for it, thinking they were talking to me.
JunGull
Yep me too.
SwordSaint892
Sorry I'm away, busy taking a shower with %n 's sister.
upperdeck57
Ah yes those were the best. I use to go online and look up clever ones to use.
thegr8rambino
bbl hit up the cellular
waitformeabbybernstein
aim away messages = early facebook status updates. at least for me anyway.
ericavee
song lyrics. oh god. in italics with the name of the artist like ~*this*~
Lucky24NA
Omg song lyrics! Like oh look at all these hidden meanings crush!
caerridwen
Also adding parts of lyrics to your personal message as a "hidden" message to someone special.
SailorVSays
I feel old remembering all this. For me it was usually Yahoo! though.
larouquine
Remember how you could set whatever music you were listening to as your personal message? My best MSN memory was when one of my friends 1/2
larouquine
had that turned on without realizing. His was "Hot soccer mom sucks off horny football players and rimjob" or something to that effect.
SpaceKen
5 hours for a song transfer?! How about 2 days for the latest free porn?
ninmonkey
Or images that load one row at a time
theorangeutan
I also had a seriously huge collection of emoticons
frontyardninja
i trolled the internet for smilies to use as msn emoticons
JRCrichton
I had many as well, even made a few of mine. Good times.
PankeValds
a lot of emoticons didn't loaded properly and you had to right click to see what keys were binding to that. also the gif of the baby dancing
ChillaAquila
Right clicking to add your friends emoticon you didn't have and going 'yoink'
Nerdfightergirl
My god I spent hours amassing emoticons from around the web.... it's crazy how many I had. What a collosal waste of time.... *facepalm*
IHaveAPhrasalUserNameLikeThisOneCauseTheyAlwaysGetTheTopComment
I had one that consisted of three parts and together they looked like a bar uploading a virus to your computer.
CrackAddictedRainbow
Me too :D
BurlRavenscroft
Do ... do people not use IM anymore?
LMGN
-IRC Still exists -Skype is IM -Most Gaming platforms have IM -FBMessager -Twitter
Snoweh
I think that MSN merged with Skype, so most people use that or just Facebook chat.
bridgebrain
facεbook and skλpε mostlλ. Å fεω still on I☈C.
llely
I hate Facebook messenger, it's so clunky and awkward and I don't want to be on Facebook constantly. >_<
PadraigS
I see a lot of AIM and MSN chat, but I gotta say ICQ was much better.
byrondio
Do you remember your ICQ # ?
danielsdesk
Oh man, the best thing was the live group chat... it was like everyone had their own window for their chat, and they all updated realtime
byrondio
Yeah, it felt more human, being able to see the speed they where writing things at, or the mistakes they were making. And you could replay!
PadraigS
To this day I still remember my number. I bet when I'm super ass old and forget my family and their faces, I'll still remember it.
byrondio
I even remember the first password I gave to it. Now that's what I call RAM. And other people, too.
reggietheflamingo
SHAKE!
Lego23
And there was a draw function. I miss the draw function.
LadyWidebottom
Nudge*
shrivelledjohnson
We used a program that took off the nudge time retriction. 10 person nudge bomb would crash the targets computer.
YouStupidWhatchacallit
I can hear the sound!
LadyWidebottom
I disabled mine lol
YouStupidWhatchacallit
I'd be the annoying one. I would nudge until it told me i couldn't anymore, haha!
LadyWidebottom
Me too, which was even better since I'd disabled it on mine. I got no ill effects but the other user got trolled hardcore.
draicus
I remember juggling friends on MSN, AIM, ICQ, and mIRC because they all refused to get the same application.
ThatsWhatSheSed
Brought back memories and laughter at the things we used to do with MSN
Alexshing
Some of these things still apply to any other chat/messenging service still existing, go out and relive your glory days!!
teaismylife
I had totally forgot until now, but in gr 9 I got asked out via msn and I didn't get a chance to answer because my mom needed the phone!
KingVerenceIIofLancre
Every single thing applies to me. Holy shit.
parabola
They forgot using lyrics you thought were really deep as your screen name.
IHaveAPhrasalUserNameLikeThisOneCauseTheyAlwaysGetTheTopComment
Did you also do the 'only talk to your crush on MSN, not in real life' thing?
KingVerenceIIofLancre
Indeed. Omg.
1skitzomonica
MSN arguments were how I learned to type so fast.
ninmonkey
Or MUD's.
micropig
OMG. Me too! Also, the internets is where I learned how to argue fluently at all.
lainie
Whoo! Born in the 80's! I still use the phone to talk to people too :P
Caliburn
I have friends who hate when I call, get mad, and tell me to text them. Then they complain about how long I take to respond. *sigh*
dunbar4prez
A/SL?
tinman04
Did the mistake of copying one of my conversation in a document. my parents found it. And I go into trouble. it was a dirty conversation
PlayingDevilsAdvocate
Why would you get in trouble for a dirty conversation
tinman04
Cause i was 13 and Mormon
PlayingDevilsAdvocate
Oh, religion is so stupid. I was already a developed pervert by that age. I don't think it would have got me in trouble
tinman04
Ya. I should've been smarter and not "save it for later"
PlayingDevilsAdvocate
Eh how is a 13 year old gonna know better, I kinda feel at that age things unfold without much control on your part
LadyWidebottom
That's why you got the mod with the encryption on chat logs you fool!
Beverlyhillscopisonrightnow
Motherfucking MSN Plus! I remember that shit
LadyWidebottom
It was sooo good, especially the "boss protection" feature.
army65
I did this too, I found out the hard way that it saved conversations when my dad was clearing out his computer and found them...
hartmonica
THIS HAPPENED TO ME TOO
Dogfarts
Me too! Except mine was on Neopets. Even more shame.
TheDepartmentofRedundancyDepartment
Anyone here remember ICQ? remember that "uh oh" in that kids voice? That was awesome.
Snarknado4
that sound was the worst thing about ICQ
vickie172
So currently have that sound at my text message notification
AzogPls
Warsheep was awesome
OriginalWadjet
I still have MSN Messenger.
lozeldatkm
Obviously not THE msn. It has to be some 3rd party knockoff like aMSN or something, right?
OriginalWadjet
No, it's the same MSN messenger I downloaded back with office.
lozeldatkm
I thought they cut all support for MSN though. I had to download aMSN to keep talking to my gf. Until she moved in with me of course...
ninmonkey
You didn't have to stop talking, just because she moved in.
OriginalWadjet
lozeldatkm
maybe old versions still work? never tried, but either way im kinda surprised
Smutans
Um, you guys. I had two screen names. FlamingoChick42 and SAngelToes. The S stood for silver. I was the coolest.
urbanlenny
My msn screen name was fatty_deposit and my yahoo one was waxedeyeballs.
datbat
somegurl20022003 I was so lame. I did it to send my crush back then a message so he wouldn't know who I was.
TheGayPenguin
I made loads of different screennames because I thought they were clever, but my first ever was Hamsterfan1083.
suddenlyrelevant
I know that username, why do I know that username?!
Tamster
kittykatlover. Could probably still get away with that one today to be honest. But I'm not sure clients would appreciate it so much..
1Rogue
mractiveman, used to be about my ADHD, now I can't help but think about viagra
PookieHOS
My current name is the same i used 15 years ago... I was either brilliant or lazy. Oh well. Ttfn
DisneyPrincessCthulhu
punkrox37. the shame.
frontyardninja
I member.
Dezban
As someone who used to be called dracula, I approve.
demat
Oh god, this image is the early 2000s in a nutshell.
IAskImportantQuestionsSometimes
oh god i feel like i just saw through the matrix and encountered the past.
Iwannaswiminapoolofpuppiesohwaitmaybenot
Omg, Imma cry...
DHR000x
You didnt block Dan
frontyardninja
I would never block Dan, he's the best.
highflyingfuck
Actually kids these days understand a lot of those
suddenlyrelevant
I doubt they would remember NetMeeting or MS.Chat though :O
bobbi21
Yeah. I feel old that any online interactions are considered old. We used to talk to people in my day.
PastaIsLife
Really? Wow, ...oh wait. That's what everyone else does currently.
MyPalmsSpaghettiKneesWeakArmsSpaghettiTheresVomitOnMySpaghetti
I am 12 and what is a "talk to people"?
Iwannaswiminapoolofpuppiesohwaitmaybenot
Hearing the phone ring and having no clue who it is!!! So exciting.
delonwheels
And not instantly knowing it was a debt collector. Ah, childhood.
LMGN
Hell, even some of this generation USED MSN.
droomph
Replace MSN with Facebook Messenger and 90% are relevant
highflyingfuck
Exactly or Google Chat
PastaIsLife
Or Skype
byrondio
`·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· byrondio `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· says: ahh the memories!
cindel
~*~*My Username*~*~
DieterVonCunth
Same for me except with AIM
Thepurpleflamingo
I always said A. I. M. but I know people who pronounce it aim. What do you guys think?
llely
I just say it as a word, but I've heard it both ways.
ifinallyfeelathome
always said A. I. M.
xavierjmole
AIM was the medium of maybe 50% of my high school exchanges.
DieterVonCunth
Aye, I was so smooth on there. Great times
blackletum
I remember being a member of quite a few AIM Icon sites and making aim icons for people. Oh, that was a lifetime ago
mslangerhanspresents
Woah I completely forgot about those.
cheeesecloth
Oh my god! Those were like completely gone from my memory. I was too!
LawlessWalrus
Oh AIM... Multiple profiles to avoid some people who'd already added you. What a time.
Necropants
I had so many AIM names. My favorite was GetLostYouPsycho
maybeidowantants
Ha! I had many profiles also in yahoo. Even pretended,to my then bf, that I was 2 different people. Man, I was dumbass teenager.
DieterVonCunth
This statement is too too true. +1 for you, foo. And don't even get me started on a MacGruber quoting tangent...that can take all night
LawlessWalrus
You're loco, man.
DieterVonCunth
Shut your butt!
LawlessWalrus
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johndavidrage
I came out of the closet to someone for the first time, my best friend, over aim. Good times.
SaraShenanigans
...you don't happen to be named Gage, do you?
lesbianyellowsourfruit
....yeah who used MSN???
Zoso000
yea? weird
euridice811
I got MSN before I got AIM, and my crush made fun of me because nobody had MSN.
PuppiesoverKittensAnyday
people outside the US. Because AIM was part of AOL (America Online). Kind of inherently excludes all non-Americans...
typingtreemonkey
ICQ FTW
delonwheels
Uh-oh!
TrentleBerryCrunch
331 something was my number. That damn little flower.
balthcat
Tiny UIN fight!
jackers
me too! a lot of people in my middle school/high school used it
lazerhosen
I had friends in so many places I used AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and IRC. I eventually started using Trillian to log into all of them (but IRC).
blackletum
I used ICQ too! That was so obscure though I switched to AIM since no one I knew used it
ofcourseidoimaprincessandthisismytiara
I was an ICQer! i still remember my number lol. add a few letters and it makes a great password.
Sugarcrotch
HA HA i know your password now. not really but how freaky would it be if someone that knew your icq number saw this comment o.o
gingeraffe6
my icq number is my password for everything!
AuntieMeat
AIM & ICQ were my primary modes of dial-up communication.
HalloweenAintTillManana
I got my first boob pic on AIM. It was glorious.
DieterVonCunth
YOU were a lucky man
df11
Same here! Oh AIM...
delonwheels
My first internet friend and I met on an agnosticism message board and chatted 24/7. I found him on fb but I'm afraid he'll think I'm crazy.
fartbender
AIM profiles and away messages were where you first found "those girls" who over used "deep" quotes. ugh. They use them as FB statuses now.
Tylerimgur
AIM was my shit in 6th grade before I got a cell phone and my friend moved away
ImguritisIsNotCureable
Oh goodness the chat rooms....anyone else frequent The Green Dragon Inn?
aerryl
Oh the memories best forgotten..
IBringGoodTiddiesAndRear
I was in the Red Dragon Inn RPing.
welcomestranger
oh oh!
welcomestranger
oh wait, that was ICQ... what a time to be alive...
turokdinosaurhunter
With the exception of only my current boyfriend I was only ever asked out on AIM.
TrentleBerryCrunch
Trenity1234
RelevantForOnce
I once took a photo of a photo on the wall in my friend's basement and made it my AIM icon. After a couple weeks, he asked what my icon was
RelevantForOnce
(P.S. Here is the icon.
)
RelevantForOnce
(P.P.S. This was before digital cameras were common, so I mean I took a photo, had it developed, scanned it, and cropped it for this prank.)
RelevantForOnce
of and I told him to walk in his basement and come back. A couple minutes later, he messaged me, "Holy shit!"
llely
...yeah, I totally still use AIM.
euridice811
I did until my program stopped working. I think I had one friend left who used it.
YouSuckHahaImJustKiddingYoureAlright
You're the last of your kind
bfisch81
I think there are like 14 of us left.
pizy
Same. And I don't get the hate. It's still one of the fastest methods of private communication... I type far faster than I text.
llely
Same here, and I'm on my computer a lot so there's no point in me reaching over for my phone every second.
euridice811
Anyone I could reach on AIM I can also reach on facebook.
MC182
wait how did this used to work? A/S/L?
llely
28/f/NC ...and I, too, have many cats.
MC182
So it's the age of 28 that women become crazy cat ladies based on this sampling. noted.
DoctorCatDog
28/f/Fl!
MC182
I always wondered where crazy cat ladies were from.
DoctorCatDog
Actually I'm from NJ originally, but the cat acquisition started in SC...I'm a recent FL transplant.
llely
*wary eyes at thecrazycatlady* are you my doppelganger?
DoctorCatDog
Possibly. Are you MY doppelgänger?
ImMrNovember
You know what I never understood about AIM? "Warning" people. What exactly did that do?
balthcat
They had to be warned by multiple users in order for it to have an effect. It could limit their ability to message, I think.
worldling
It limits the frequency of messages that person could send per minute. Warning only works when they've messaged you first
ScotchBingington
What a time to be alive
doorfer
Indeed my friend
OperatorError
Many of those also apply to ICQ.
mantha0n3
Ha ha haI used to use icq :D
RambunctiousCrow
still use it, with pidgin as client and to communicate with like 3 people ...
mmurrbles
You can't say you invented the internet without a low icq #
Benegesseritwitch75
Oh gwad does this make us old it doesn't right? Right?
KNIVESY
Extremely.
danielsdesk
I still had my ICQ number up to a few years ago! I had stopped using it more than a decade before that... but I still had it!
theonewithunagi
I loved to play slide-a-lama with ICQ!
Brazzlefrat
Oh my god YES! I miss that!
theonewithunagi
You can play it online: http://flashigri.org/en/games/puzzle-games/421-slide-a-lama.html
WickedSludge
Holy shit it's still a thing! http://www.icq.com/en
ToranagaTheShogun
lol, I never stopped using it.
green0fox
You're making me feel old!
Churts
125986524 add me gogo nostalgia chatfest. Cheerfulness guaranteed.
everythingwillbeokay
I still remember my ICQ #. And my best friends' phone numbers from elementary school. Time flew by!!!
poopdecktragedy
i still remember my user #, i had a 6-digit one!!
KalmiaKamui
That's seriously old school. Mine was eight digits.
metraknode
whats sad is i still remember my ICQ # after all these years.....
Jailout2000
Am I the only one thinking who actually used ICQ?
xfumo
I quickly uninstalled ICQ when I discovered that the default notification sound was a baby giggling/cackling/crying/whatever the fuck that 1
xfumo
demonic sound was. It scared the piss out of me. 2
Snarknado4
pretty sure I was able to turn that off. but I agree, it was awful
danielsdesk
are we going to bring ICQ back?
ToranagaTheShogun
lol, I never stopped using it.
stupidnickname
same here :D though i have only 1 friend left who uses it
ToranagaTheShogun
i have 3 who were using it the whole time and 1 who started using it a week ago :D (We are close friend in RL too though haha)
stupidnickname
yeh the one i have is a good friend from outernet, but i moved away and he will move further away and i dont use facebook so yeh
sunnyb
UHOH
Fortune090
Totally heard that in my head the second I read ICQ...
Churts
VUUUUUUOP!
SusanGoGetMyPants
Local gas station uses the icq uhoh sound for their cash register after a customer pumps their fuel. Brings back memories every time.
AuntieMeat
And then they also use the a Sonic the Hedgehog rings noise. Keeps dragging up '90s memories when I'm hunting down Mexican soda &Limón Lays.
GhostHin
oh man! ICQ. My first account was 6 digit, then I forgot the number....
theluckysuccess
wow... mine was 7... and I still remember it!!! But not my password :( or have access to the email i set it up with... :(
erikastephaniedawn
I still remember my ICQ number. lol It's been more than a decade, but it's permanently ingrained.
HellaBritish
Are we forgetting the msn bitch fights? The pictures instead of a letter? Holy mother of God it was like translating Egyptian.
RoundThreeFIGHT
Except my internet was so poor that it never loaded those images so I'd get shit like all the r's and a's in a sentence would just be blank
Magnivore
Example?
LeahcarDee
The bitch fights man... my friend and I fought like cat and dog on MSN but every day in school it was like nothing had ever happened
LaronX
And the emoticon flood. Pretty much everything was an emoticon.
nation543
asdfelw
in swedish banana and course/track is the same word, so it always showed up a dancing banana when i wanted to ask what track to play haha
Palaluuseri
Oh yes, they're just pronounced differently (the stress is on different syllable).
veelafleur
Oh god when you're having a serious conversation and midway through your sentence there's an emoji doing sexual innuendos...the horror.
ILikeBob
This. All the damn time.
marksoccer
You're referring to hieroglyphics right?
V0rpalSw0rd
I assume that's what they meant but +1 since I was going to comment the same thing.
bridgebrain
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AnaximanderBolton
I carrl own ths great traditiown toe this dau.
SpecialAgentSterlingArcher
this must have been when mother locked me in a russian gulag. Can you explain please? use tiny text. i'm hungover and capitals hurt my head.
grillmeacheese
As someone currently drunk, this.
grillmeacheese
Also, archer reference user names all around. Winner.
dirtmop
I thought the people cleaning the carpets were my mom. I spent 2 hours yelling "Grill me a cheese!" at them.
cindel
I'm not grilling you a cheese!
cousteau
I disabled smileys because my friends were idiots.
HommeDeBois
You mean like ascii text images?
PeterME
Nope, you could have custom smilies. So people would bind different letters to different images. Either of the letters or something else
johnyspot
Omg, yes. Those were the WORST!
DontEatTheCrabDipYeyay
I am so goddamn guilty of this.
suomynonA
No, like this:
thecapitalofromania
Oh jesus christ the memories
HommeDeBois
Holy shit! I never saw that digital verbal diarrhea
suomynonA
I used to see it all the time. Sometimes with animated moving, flashing, or glowing ones too.
legacycrono
Are we pretending the winks never existed?
ScribblyD
MSN? Whadda bout Excite.com's super chat bitches?!
Seere
Do you remember the poke spam?
ninmonkey
Today it's called facebook
Seere
Hehe, yes. But back in MSN days one version was bugged so you could just keep pressing it and it would keep making a sound.
ninmonkey
Beeps to connect to the net, and then you make it, and it beeps at you.
Seere
It was like an attention button, it would make a sound and your friends client would shake, and in one version they fucked it up.
suomynonA
In case anyone is wondering:
joedohn
Holy. Heck.
WeUsedToRuleTheWorldYouKnow
Money. It's not the problem, time is. The problem is (that) I have so much more important things to work with right know which is (1/2)
WeUsedToRuleTheWorldYouKnow
impossible t(o) have the site in my mind. (2/2) How close was I?
ImaSwiffernotamop
That's roughly what I got too. HAHA. Ouch...
Procrastin8her
Lol people being lazy with the text code shortcut things. I put like (x) or *x when I wanted to emoticon the x thing
Lexiconnoisseur
"SRY FOR THE EMOTIONS"
kelpsie
Join hi5 and be friends with ♡♥°o× §¤ Ŧňƒ ¤§×o°♥♡ - it's free!
suomynonA