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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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XaiwahBlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I haven’t thought of those apps for years, I used Pidgin! I had to look up the program name.

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omarfw@lemmy.world
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Pidgin was dope

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Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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Pidgin is still around too afaik.

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Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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Emesene and pidgin were great! :)

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𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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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.

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Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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.

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XaiwahBlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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. 😩

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Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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It will! There’s a plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord

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P1nkman@lemmy.world
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Blast from the freaking past! Wow, you just unlocked some memories for me.

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