MSN messenger to be fully shutdown on october 31ts, going trough the memory lane

[AlexGoesHigh]

well the most popular IM app that has ever existed is finally getting fully axed on that date, last year the service started to officialy get shut down 2 year ago when microsoft migrated most users to skype, though chinesse users still had the service availible, so it wasn't completely dead, until now

 

the verge has an awesome compilation of the history of the app through its 15 years of existance, from its inception through the absurb amount of stuff it had to keep users interested, which most of them turned out to be more annoying that usefull

 

i recomend to check out the gallery for full nostalgia, or if your a kid to know how thing used to be before smartphones

 

source: the verge

 

[Mo5]

Sad time

[ShadowCaptain]

Wait it still works?

 

 

Poor MSN, I had some good times there :3

[Bogica]

Ah the good old MSN times!

[Guest Generallee]

Muthfckn wizze's n shit

 

Good bye old friend

[Trik'Stari]

I forsee a flood of perverts looking to cyber anything and everything in existence coming....

[Scouten]

i thought msn messenger was shut down years ago guess i was wrong

[JAKEBAB]

10yr old JAKEBAB says to a girl " what's your msn? Add me on it" lol haha if didnt think that thing still worked wtf

[mc141]

Wow never used it but I did usa aim for a long time till they moved to facebook. now i just here the digital crickets still fun to randomly log into the web app and see if any one ever logged on recently when im bored out my mind

[Notional]

I've seen so much boob flash on that client.. Man the webcam just worked. An end of an era.

[fishy]

sad sad thing to see it go

it was stupid to force us over to skype, i never did go to skype, it's stupid

stupid stupid stupid

 

i still remember the day i found out they're gonna shut it down for us, sad memories

still have so much screenshots from web cams

[techswede]

I used that soo much when i was younger.. Thought it was dead

Haha.. I've used every version apart from the last one^^ 

[mymouthandi]

IT'S STILL ALIVE??? Well, this is a little sad. Goodbye MSN messenger. 

[N7_Zer0]

Meanwhile, ICQ is still alive.

 

http://www.icq.com/en

[Mooshi]

I thought it's been dead for years now..

[Tygron]

Really miss MSN 2007, was the best version they had. And they slowly killed it from there. I think 2009 was tolerable, but killed some of the problems 2007 had. I hate Skype with a passion. Really really wish my everyone would migrate to something better or something better get made for people to migrate to.

 

Wasn't Skype a buisness call tool anyway? Why the hell did it get mainstream? The only good feature about it is their latency on VoiP. And only because it slows down and speeds up to account for lost data so it doesn't chop up when bits are lost.

[pk-man]

good ol' msn.  end of an era

 

They forced everyone to switch to Skype even though msn was a better messenger.  I still hate Skype's UI and the lack of customization. 

[The Crazed Child]

huehuehue

 

I used to use it too. Not sad though, I hated it.

[Speedbird]

About time. Whenever I accidentally install it with Windows Live it demands an update, which is just a (broken) Skype installer.

[Accursed Entity]

Seeing the images...

 

Dem feels...

[dizmo]

So many memories.

Is anyone here old enough to remember ICQ?

[coder-guy22296]

Is microsoft Link messenger any good?

[Technous285]

*Looks in taskbar. Has Trillian running his old MSN accounts. Mehs at Messenger finally shutting down*

Not gonna merge them with my main Skype as that's already got enough contacts, and came about for different uses than the MSN's (one of which was meant to be a replacement of the other older one, after the older one was recovered from an attempted hijack, but never got everyone moved over... >.>). I'd be running Skype through Trillian as well, if I didn't need the group video ability (which Trillian isn't really good with, heck it's not all that good with one-on-one video calls to be frank), but Trillian is nigh-on perfect for my text messenger uses.

[mgsstar]

Because MSN messenger shut down, I no longer use it because its now converted to a Skype account. Didn't know that it wasn't shut down yet. The nudge feature was the best feature imo on messenger.

[tedjani]