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[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Yahoo! Messenger shut down in 2018
MSN Messenger discontinued in 2013
AIM Messenger discontinued in 2017

ICQ was really the last of them and it's ending quite an era. This is, officially, the end of the Messengers.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Damn, thinking about the msn messenger brings me back to such simpler and happier times

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can almost breath the same as young me getting home, throwing my bag in my bed and jumping to the family PC in the living room to chat with friends. Man, I never thought I'd miss the 00's. Why'd I wanna grow up?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, etc. It's hardly the end, the market has just been gobbled up by the big players as usual

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One thing those old ones did was have conversations in their own windows. I much prefer that over having to navigate back and forth in the same damn window to jump between convos.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Msn was the best, I'll never forgive Microsoft for killing it in favour of Skype.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Aol instant messenger messenger

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Does slack count?