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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)
submitted 8 months 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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[โ€“] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 51 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm surprised no one mentioned Facebook.

I recall using MSN as far as in to 2009, but the friends I was connected with migrated to Facebook when their chat feature rolled out.

[โ€“] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 12 points 8 months ago

Same, it was pretty much an instant change too. Which sucked as Facebook chat was very unreliable at the time and obviously not very feature rich.

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