Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI think that’s what the college kids were playing with when I was in high school.
Started college in 1995, and I indeed did have ICQ before too long. Still remember my number (6725571).
You probably had all three installed on your computer and probably all running at once.
I remember using a program called Trillian (which is still around!) in the late 90s/early 00s. It allowed you to connect multiple IM accounts in one app. It was sorta finicky, but it got the job done.
XaiwahBlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I haven’t thought of those apps for years, I used Pidgin! I had to look up the program name.
omarfw@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pidgin was dope
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Pidgin is still around too afaik.
Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
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.
XaiwahBlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
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. 😩
Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
It will! There’s a plugin: github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord
P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Blast from the freaking past! Wow, you just unlocked some memories for me.
GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Emesene and pidgin were great! :)
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
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.