RIP MSN Messenger - July 22, 1999 - October 31, 2014

[Maxumym]

I never used the thing, but I definitely recall it being annoying as fuck when it pops up asking if I want to set it up.
NO I DON'T FUCKING WANT TO STOP ASKING ME ALL THE TIME.

[myon]

Nudge

Nudge

Nudge

[elix]

[QUOTE=Teddybeer;45836482]Went out if phases. You could just patch it to make it connect to servers that were still up in May I think.[/QUOTE]

MSN's service is still running worldwide, you just need third-party clients like Pidgin to use it. For now.

[WINDOWS098]

I remeber setting thenudge sound as the halo2 theme. my dad was PISSED.

[elix]

[QUOTE=glitchvid;45836688]If you guys want something similar to MSN, there's an open source protocol called [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP]XMPP[/url]/Jabber.

It's open; so everyone can run their own "relay", and have their own clients; there are also a ton of chat clients that support it.

It also acts like email in a lot of ways, the syntax is the same: [noparse][e-mail][/noparse] and people from website-a.domain can message people at website-b.domain, it's a little rare to seen used for non-business or internal networks: but there are open nodes that you can create accounts on.

Anyway, thought I'd weigh in since "public" adoption of XMPP is low, and I think it's the next step in IM protocols.

/endrant[/QUOTE]

Google [I]used[/I] to use XMPP for Google Talk. "Used to" is sort of a misnomer because much of the chat service that's now known as Hangouts (including G+ Hangouts and video chat) is heavily based on XMPP, but it's been customized by Google so much that at this point it's no longer compatible enough with the protocol standard to say they're using it.

I run my own XMPP server and it's great. No ads, no fuckbuckets of spambots, no downtime unless I've personally fucked up, and it still happily talks to any XMPP server on the net (which used to include Google). I was excited when Google put XMPP out in front with GTalk, and then greatly disappointed when, instead of pushing greater adoption and growth of XMPP as an open and extensible distributed chat protocol, it modified it into an incompatible proprietary lump that now takes over your SMS on your smartphone and automatically turns on video during a chat.

[barttool]

[QUOTE=dai;45836572]thread music

[media]http://soundcloud.com/taurus973/msn-message[/media][/QUOTE]

actual thread music

[video=youtube;0VvXjjKjn3o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VvXjjKjn3o[/video]

[Doritos-pope]

I remember my dad accidentally sending me a porn smiley :v:

[Billy2600]

The only thing I miss is voice messages. Sometimes in the middle of a text chat we'd just want to send eachother crappy impressions of Duke Nukem or Solid Snake or whatever. Vocaroo works, but is less convenient.

[elix]

[QUOTE=windows098;45837260]I remeber setting thenudge sound as the halo2 theme. my dad was PISSED.[/QUOTE]

Reminds me of the time when I set a buddy's Windows startup and shutdown sounds in Win98 to the North American Sailor Moon opening song.

It would play the whole thing before it either went to desktop or proceeded to shutdown. He didn't know how to change sound profiles at the time. I'm pretty sure he got grounded for a week over that before he explained to his parents that I'd done it and exactly what I did.

"Timmy, if that computer's still on when I come in there and you're not getting ready for bed, you're grounded."
"OKAY already!"
*Fiiiiighting evil by moonlight! Winning love by daylight! Never running from the real fight! She is the one called Sailor Moon!*
"DID YOU JUST START WATCHING ANIME SHIT AGAIN?!"

I'll take "Automerge Failures for 1000, Alex."
"Answer: Your dumb face"
"Who is the poster who can't automerge for shit?"
"Correct!"

[C.C]

*nudge*

[jp_rsardeto]

[img]http://ernstmul.home.xs4all.nl/images/msn60/smile008.gif[/img]

[pr00ch]

I feel like such a fucking hipster for having used a Poland wide messenger before skype.

Also ICQ for a short time.

[xelivous]

[QUOTE=glitchvid;45836688]If you guys want something similar to MSN, there's an open source protocol called [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP]XMPP[/url]/Jabber.
[...][/QUOTE]

yea i've been using xmpp for a couple years now with [url=http://www.lightwitch.org/]lightwitch[/url] because i don't feel like setting up and maintaining my own server. nobody else i know uses it thoug,h so i just keep it around to feel hip ;;

is "miranda im" still one of the better xmpp supporting clients for windows or is there another new cool one to use??

[P1X3L N1NJA]

Your relationship wasn't serious until you had <3*name*<3 in your display name.

If you were super serious you had how many days you had been together.

[Trekintosh]

iChat has always been better anyways.

[Revanold]

Writing a sentence and every other letter was a shortkey to an emoticon so you couldn't even tell what you typed

I also saved a picture of this girl's face as "ih8u" thinking it was a huge burn

[VioletProcyon]

[QUOTE=HeroicPillow;45837372]yea i've been using xmpp for a couple years now with [url=http://www.lightwitch.org/]lightwitch[/url] because i don't feel like setting up and maintaining my own server. nobody else i know uses it thoug,h so i just keep it around to feel hip ;;

is "miranda im" still one of the better xmpp supporting clients for windows or is there another new cool one to use??[/QUOTE]

I usually use [url=https://www.trillian.im/]Trillian[/url] alongside [url=https://duck.co/]Dukgo[/url]

[Zero-Point]

[QUOTE=pentium;45836413]I thought MSN died when Windows Live was merged with Skype?

I'll now have to forever my cherish my @msn.com email address.[/QUOTE]

Another antiquated piece of computer history for your collection.

[LukeyxD]

[img]http://images.uncyc.org/commons/6/6e/Dancingmilk.gif[/img]

Good god.

I remember this fucking milk.

[Glitchvid]

[QUOTE=HeroicPillow;45837372]yea i've been using xmpp for a couple years now with [url=http://www.lightwitch.org/]lightwitch[/url] because i don't feel like setting up and maintaining my own server. nobody else i know uses it thoug,h so i just keep it around to feel hip ;;

is "miranda im" still one of the better xmpp supporting clients for windows or is there another new cool one to use??[/QUOTE]

Since I have a server that runs SVNs, Mumble, and a few other things I have an xmpp server on it too.

As for clients, I personally like pidgin a lot, it's lightweight yet has plugins, it's fairly simplistic, and uses GTK2+ for themes, so I can theme it.

It lacks support for Jingle though (on windows), and it's main dev platform is Linux.

Another one that looks OK, is Jitsi, I have it installed whenever I want to use video chat, since I have Mumble for audio.

[QUOTE=HetsuProcyon;45837489]I usually use [url=https://www.trillian.im/]Trillian[/url] alongside [url=https://duck.co/]Dukgo[/url][/QUOTE]

How is Trillian? If you've tried Pidgin do you think it's better in significant ways?

[VioletProcyon]

[QUOTE=glitchvid;45838301]How is Trillian? If you've tried Pidgin do you think it's better in significant ways?[/QUOTE]

I used to use trillian for the integration with Skypekit, but now that's dead I don't really see any major differences besides the UI and ability to do audio/video calls with other Trillian users (which from what I've heard is pretty buggy). They also have a webclient and mobile app too though which I don't think pidgin has, there's probably a few other significant differences as well but either way they're both good clients. I used to use Pidgin back in 2009-2011 so I don't really know if much has changed.

[Massaki]

I thought this was shut down already. Like I've literally seen this thread title on 3 different dates

[Nibroc]

I remember an emote of a bald man looking around and a hole in his head appeared with gas coming out.

Brainfart, good times.

[JennyC6]

[QUOTE=Whiplash~;45836573]I don't like the direction social networking is going, sharing more and more information, which becomes publicly available to everyone, I don't trust it.

I liked MSN's simplicity.[/QUOTE]

Indeed, and that's why I don't use such services. If they can even be called that, they're as much advertising generators as anything else.

No thanks. I can count the number of people I want to talk to on one hand anyway.

[Bokito]

All this talk of MSN reminded of Limewire, and that in turn made me think of all the bullshit and viruses you could get from there. Case in point: [video=youtube;-96X_WGE_1c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-96X_WGE_1c[/video]

[NiandraLades]

Kinda interesting to see how things have turned; everyone used to use this and thought Skype was dumb/weird, now it's the other way around.

[miles]

Ah I've just realized how many accounts I'd create per day back then to spam the girls in my class back in the elementary. :tinfoil:

[RobyYe]

I remember accidentally sending a porn video to my crush. I was 13. Oh the fond memories of not going back on MSN for so fucking long cause of that.

[Oizen]

Isn't it still possible to use MSN?

I still have it installed for some reason, and it still works.

[Exnem]

End of an internet era.