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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 month ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a diehard Netscape Navigator user, I scoff at your browser choice.

The running joke in my day was everyone used Internet Explorer... to download Netscape.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In 2003, Internet Explorer had a 95% market share. Your running joke was demonstrably untrue.

[–] Typhoonigator@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some of us are older than you think we are

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, you name dropped Netscape. Your next of kin is probably rehearsing the talk where they take your car keys away as we speak.

The topic of discussion is MSN Messenger, its popularity and demise, which puts us in the period between 1999 and ~2008. Especially during the first half of that decade, practically everyone was using IE. And not really liking it, but using it nevertheless.