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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] XaiwahBlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I haven't thought of those apps for years, I used Pidgin! I had to look up the program name.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Blast from the freaking past! Wow, you just unlocked some memories for me.

[–] Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I still use Pidgin, because I still have some old work related contacts who use Skype, and I'd much rather use Pidgin than keep Skype around. It will do discord too but it's a bit kludgey.

[–] XaiwahBlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It will do discord? That's amazing, I will have to look back into it. Discord has been awful for a while, but getting people to switch is impossible. 😩

[–] Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

It will! There's a plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord

[–] omarfw@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Pidgin was dope

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago

Pidgin is still around too afaik.

[–] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Emesene and pidgin were great! :)

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

Trillian was amazing, until it was overtaken by malware. At least that's what my antivirus at the time said. Also, proprietary, so I passed on it after finding pidgin.