![]() ![]() But then things took a serious turn, and then there was attempted espionage and all sorts of whacky shindigs before AOL delivered its version of the Rock Bottom, introducing a security bug into the AIM software, permanently shutting the boys at MSN out. AOL stole in with some serious cuckolding, and Auerbach and co continued to find the loopholes. The actual conversation seemed to matter more than the witty status updates toĪccompany a banal profile photo of you with your hamster.Īt the time, MSN and AOL were battling it out for top dog in the chatting domain, and, much like Eminem Vs Machine Gone Kelly, I mean Gun, it was a hotly pursued tete-a-tete, which saw Microsoft engineer, David Auerbach, reverse engineer AOL’s chat system, allowing Messenger to sign into AIM, which as you would imagine properly ticked AOL off.īack and forth they went. Of 1999, but all things considered, it wasn’t all that bad, and that’s because Pictures and high-level customisations, this was as good as it got back in July Than a simple plain text service with a contact list. The very first version of MSN messenger was nothing more Speak to them, I mean let’s be honest, a lot of people are more comfortable Was you could spend hours chatting with someone without having to actually Online? Pretty stoked I’d imagine, wouldn’t see why not, because what it meant You when you found that they could reply instantly so long as they were also You could ping a message to your friend after school or work? How thrilled were How thrilled were you in 1999, when you suddenly found that This week, we’ll take a look at Windows Live Messenger, nee MSN Instamessaging before WhatsApp took over and sent face-to-face conversations Wi-fi not withstanding) texting, image and video sharing, and now toll freeĬalls to anywhere in the world, that really solves the problem of having to emptyĪ fanny pack’s worth of quarters into a public STD phone (STD as in Subscriberīut this TBT is not about WhatsApp. Virtually every handheld device (and PC). Heard back in the 90s before the phonetic-namesake app wriggled its way into No, not what’s up, although that’s what you’d have ![]()
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