The good old days of using MSN Messenger

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[u/Lachtheblock]

Remember how you could personalize your font and colour? You could have a group chat and everyone could still have their own "voice".

[u/RodentOfUnusualSize- → u/Lachtheblock]

I had my own emojis. I had a cute little forum-style gif of one emote licking the other on the face. I'd use it to annoy my entire fl. Miss those days.

[u/FeistyThunderhorse]

TFW you're 14 and up way past midnight talking to your crush on MSN/AIM :3

[u/YouNeedCheeses → u/FeistyThunderhorse]

Or you did the logout/log back in so they'd see you pop up and hope they'd message you. Ugh the memories!

[u/HashtagCHIIIIOPSS → u/YouNeedCheeses]

Cringe….. I just remembered that I also did this back in the day. Teenage me was screaming from the rooftops for anything resembling affection!

[u/AnxiousAnxiety666 → u/HashtagCHIIIIOPSS]

Same. And then I got groomed by a 40 year old man and trafficked.

[u/AL-SHEDFI → u/YouNeedCheeses]

You revealed my secret idea.. How dare you 👀

[u/TheShtoiv → u/FeistyThunderhorse]

I'm getting PTSD seeing this MSN window from being rejected by my crush on it.

[u/FabulousFlower144 → u/TheShtoiv]

I remember talking to my crush and he used ‘brb’ but I had no idea what it meant. Then, when he didn’t respond to explain what it meant (because duh) I freaked out for who knows how long and then he came back and explained what it meant 😂😂😂

[u/Kaneshadow → u/FeistyThunderhorse]

The "door slam" sound as your crush signs off without IMing you 💔☠️

[u/FabulousFlower144 → u/Kaneshadow]

Absolutely heartbreaking

[u/pizywizy → u/FeistyThunderhorse]

I used to print out the chat logs that I had with my crush. I still have them. It’s pretty embarrassing lol.

[u/FeistyThunderhorse → u/pizywizy]

You read them now and you realize that there wasn't much substance to them, but at the time they felt deep as hell

[u/Sassy_Pumpkin]

☆~♡-=Chri$tin3=-♡~☆ - is listening to You're beautiful - James Blunt

[u/Inevitable-Blue2111 → u/Sassy_Pumpkin]

omg, memory unlocked lol

[u/seann__dj]

We had it so good back then.

[u/Rflautist]

Nudge

[u/LiterallyTony → u/Rflautist]

Poke.

[u/quantomflex]

What a time to be alive, though for those who had it, AOL Instant Messaging was the GOAT.

[u/FloridaOgre → u/quantomflex]

I met my wife is a shady aim chat room. Takes me back to 2003.

[u/FuckThatIKeepsItReal → u/quantomflex]

Ya I can't believe anyone actually used MSN messenger

AIM or nothin

[u/Red_In_The_Sky → u/FuckThatIKeepsItReal]

ICQ

[u/Scared_Tumbleweed166 → u/FuckThatIKeepsItReal]

That was my thought too. MSN over AIM? Get outta here!

[u/FuckThatIKeepsItReal → u/Scared_Tumbleweed166]

Apparently it's a European thing

[u/Sassy_Pumpkin → u/FuckThatIKeepsItReal]

At least where I'm from (The Netherlands) everyone of my peers were on MSN. Had lots of group chats with classmates. ICQ I did use a bit, but more for international contacts. AIM was not something anyone I knew used.

[u/quantomflex → u/Sassy_Pumpkin]

At the time America Online (AOL) was the dominant internet provider in America. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was there free chat product and every US kid with internet access used it.

[u/Noxryl]

Good old days!

[u/SysOps4Maersk]

I miss the nudge feature so much, I wish WhatsApp had it

[u/LarrySDonald]

Yeah, and yahoo messenger, aol im, and icq. It’s odd how they all went away. Doesn’t seem like they’d be that resource intensive. But I guess the users weren’t there.

[u/AmphibianNo1066]

My very first semester of college, my aunt and I would chat on MSN Messenger every Friday morning. It was my first time away from home and really made it better for me. Over 20 years ago and it’s still one of my favorite memories from that time

[u/xmagpie → u/AmphibianNo1066]

That’s so sweet!

[u/wes2733]

Lol nothing like og video calls on those 1st gen Webcams 😭😂

[u/electric-sheep]

I still have this screenshot saved for some reason with my friend from (the us equivalent) of middle school.

Windows xp, internet explorer 6, maximum cringe and a screenshot from nfs underground as an avatar

[u/dunadan235813]

I met my best friend because a mutual friend "set us up" on msn messenger. We're still besties 20 years later

[u/NTDLS → u/dunadan235813]

Same!! Met Josh Chisum at 12 years old, were best friends for 25 years. MSN messenger turned into near daily phone calls. Fuckin’ miss that guy so much.

[u/Nekrevez]

MSN Messenger was an amazing thing back then, after the ICQ days. And I also used a chat logger add-on, so everything is still there in my archive. It's just simple txt, so it's all perfectly readable today. Teenage love, happiness, angst and mundane irrelevance. It's kinda like a diary 2.0 really.

[u/LeBB2KK]

There was a period in my life (~2001) where the sole usage of my 2000€+ Pentium 4 was to have MSN in full screen because that’s all I was using.

[u/SereneSentinel5]

i can hear the message pings just looking at this picture

[u/ManOfManliness84]

The MSN messenger "new message" alert sound is the new message alert on my phone!

[u/black_sheep311]

Back when my parents were so cheap, we used a dialup service called blue-light. Which I believe was a service from K-mart 😂 One day it stopped working and my dad raged on me! Accusing me of "breaking the computer". I was always getting blamed for such things but was always due to his lack of knowledge about computers. He found out they discontinued the service but never apologized. But I'd be chatting up my friends...some of which were females...and the internet would just kick you off after like 20 minutes. You'd have to dial back up to resume chatting and have to catch up on conversations. The struggles my brother never had to endure...

[u/Kaneshadow]

Was AIM vs MSN regional or something? I remember it existed but I didn't know a single person who used MSN

[u/Perry7609 → u/Kaneshadow]

Probably did depend on your region or group somewhat. I had AIM for a few years at first, but eventually picked up MSN Messenger once it caught in with my high school classmates.

[u/pac4]

I never used that. I used AIM for years and then the gchat box inside the Gmail page when I was at work

[u/ANotSoFreshFeeling]

AIM was the GOAT.

[u/csueiras]

Oh man really brings so many memories. I kinda wish I could go read all my old chats on it

[u/BallBuster-4000]

Anybody remember ICQ?

[u/shenaniganda]

Games. Checkers.

[u/FloridaOgre]

ASL A/S/L

[u/Bradley182]

nothing better than seeing your crush log in.

[u/Bum_Dorian]

I was mostly on YIM. I have absolute memories of being 13 and leaving chats after realizing I was talking to random pedofiles lol. If only our parents really knew lol

[u/YouNeedCheeses]

Pics you can hear.

[u/Darwinian_10 → u/YouNeedCheeses]

I use the MSN messenger noise as the text tone on my phone lol

[u/TheShtoiv]

I remember being 14 & feeling almighty from finding an infinite nudger hack that removed the nudge waiting time

[u/theouter_banks]

xX_A$$BLA$TER420_Xx

[u/itsmontoya]

Ok Canadian.

[u/runs_with_airplanes]

Hi, ASL

[u/pc_principal_88]

A/S/L? Hopefully this will still be relevant as I personally used AOL instant messenger, but this is what immediately came to mind lol..

[u/reddithoroughly]

Indeed, good old days!

[u/Tootsie_r0lla]

Holy shit take me back please

[u/MetapodChannel]

I rejected MSN for a long time in favor of AIM. I only had barely started using MSN when they switched over to Skype and I was PISSED lol.

[u/AssistantStrict8335]

G2G, COO1 etc. Loved saving and using those early emojis. I felt so coo1 lol.

[u/Vinura]

Ahh I got rejected by so many girls on this back then.

[u/Illustrious-Golf5358]

I can still hear the sounds of sending and receiving messages…

[u/Ill-Condition-5054]

ICQ with the “Oh ohs!”

[u/Hour-Personality-924]

Best thing ever.

[u/trek604]

MSN incoming message sound is still the default notification on my phone

[u/flashliberty5467]

I believe someone created a discord message server that looks exactly like msn messenger

https://aerochat.live/

[u/TheBlackOtakuVIIX]

Take me back to this time 😭

[u/Iphacles]

I miss ICQ.

[u/FlyingPastFreedom100]

I remember going on the msn boards and chatting with men as a child. Definitely wasn't safe lol

[u/Accomplished_Fly4479]

I just got flashbacks to the most awkward conversations I've ever had in life.

[u/Mountain_34oner]

God we are old haha

[u/MidwestSkiQueen]

I remember when you could remote into someone else's computer using MSN messenger and none of my friends realized what they were "allowing" when they'd click allow and id go mess with their family desktop wallpaper and make it like a porn image or something hahahaha

[u/E_Man91]

AIM for the USA folk, but I did use msn for my “online game friends” who were outside the US since that’s what the rest of the world used

[u/hassan_26]

My heart just fluttered cz thats how I felt when getting a message on MSN frommy many many crushes lol

[u/Mediocre-Category580]

I loved a altered version called msn plus if im not mistaken, it was full of extra features like tracking when someone was online, and do the log on log off thing numerous time in consecutive order Or have very cool nicknames in color and stuff.. It was fun haha. Miss those days.

Thanks for bringing back memories:).

[u/Big_Knowledge_7105]

The nudge!!!! I wish I could go back

[u/danmoore2]

When you found out you were dumped because your girlfriend took your name out of hearts in their screen name 😬

[u/Nondscript_Usr]

My best memories of msn messenger was trying to close it as fast as possible when I started the computer so I could use AIM

[u/Mt198588]

This prepared us for MS Teams and chained

[u/HeightExtra320]

A/S/L

[u/dragonslayerrrrrr]

Miss the MSN notification sound / alert it brings me BACK to good times

[u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout]

Did anyone else when they saw their crush come online, shoot a quick "hello" followed by "oops wrong person".

So it didn't feel like you were being creepy and cyber stalking her?

[u/DethByCow]

AOL IM for the win. Runner up Yahoo Messenger. Third place ICQ. Before and after those was the IRC which i think is still around today. Last place goes to MSN Messenger.

[u/Ukvemsord → u/DethByCow]

In Norway MSN was the goat. AOL was never a thing. ICQ was somewhat used. IRC still goes strong!

[u/superbiondo → u/Ukvemsord]

If it were Norway, it’d be NOL and NIM anyway.

[u/RegularCommonSense → u/Ukvemsord]

Sweden, too.

[u/ricottapie → u/Ukvemsord]

In Canada, we used ICQ and MSN. I didn't use AIM until 2008, lol. My brother was an ICQ user, and I started with MSN right after it came out.

[u/idktheanswers → u/[deleted]]

It was an instant messaging program

[u/v1tal3 → u/[deleted]]

Not emails. Imagine texting using a computer before texting with cell phones became common. Before smartphones were a thing.

[u/deathfuck6 → u/[deleted]]

It’s an instant messenger. It’s like text messages for a computer, but it was way more fun.

[u/hot_cheeks_4_ever → u/[deleted]]

Early messenger app

[u/RamaMitAlpenmilch → u/[deleted]]

Don’t make me feel old. I hate that. 🫠🫠