Doesnt technology kinda scare you?

i miss msn desu fb chat doesn't feel the same

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What a coincidence. I just found some CDs I burned of old chat logs and thought "Damn I miss the old school chat programs"

top tier
>MSN messenger
>AIM

ok tier:
>old skype

shit tier:
>icq

>friends always spamming nudges

fuck me

No, I'm not a fucking retard.

Fuck the amount of cybersex and camsex I had on MSN

I saw way too much underage pussy

Them were the days

even if it was still around everyone would be offline nor would they want to talk to me

i miss the old internet so much sometimes it hurts desu

god tier
>irc

I still haven't moved on from my Yahoo Messenger days

Looking back at the way I used to write messages on MSN gives me cancer
I was such a pretentious shit head when I was 13

> Seeing what the person is typing as they are typing it.
> Seeing what they erase

Who thought this was a good idea?

> Uh oh! Uh oh!

>I was such a pretentious shit head when I was 13
you're on Sup Forums, 99% sure you're still a pretentious shithead

I remember when I realized I had to get a FB account cause all my friends had ditched MSN

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At least you can turn it off it's fun seeing all the normies constantly delete their message and re-write it for 2-4 minutes only to write a couple words.

TFW i still have my full MSN logs

Yeah, the part that gets me is they actually coded it to do this, like a team actually took the time to discuss and write the code to do it.

It's way more effort to send every character as it's typed vs a buffer of characters.

I mean wtf were they thinking?

The moment they let you custom emotes was the death of it.

Another feature they can list in their marketing that no one actually wants or needs. Honestly it just created a really awkward feeling around using the client, if there was no way to turn it off then I would of resorted to copy and pasting messages from notepad or something.

> mIRC irc.dalnet.net

Looking back, holy fuck were there a lot of creeps there. I was like 10, just thrilled by the idea of talking to people from all the world, you know asking what time it was, what strange food they eat.... and the shit people ask you..... :(

> Remember when pidgin was called gaim
> Remember trillian

I probably still have CD backups of that shit if the media hasn't rotted.

Yeah but it was on by default. Like I bet someone really thought this was a cool and unique idea. That or some bored coder thought it would be fun.

ICQ didn't need marketing that shit was the dufacto chat until MSN took over.

Oh and remember getting the 'why did you turn off the live typing? ' questions?

It's like Facebook showing people you read there message.... So many times have I had to make up a excuse to girls (now ex's ) why I didn't actually see the message and how I left the browser open. (They never believe it) I used the same excuse for why I really wasn't online but Facebook says I am.

There are tricks to avoid showing it but fuck is that a hassle.

I usually switch to biltbee fb now when I'm dating someone :p

I disagree, I learned a lot of humility as I got older.

This thread is giving me mad dejavu

All feels. Maybe Sup Forums is too young to remember

At least you didn't type the same way as texing. I don't know what I was thinking, there was no fucking character limit.

I remember back in circa '95 I watched my dad and one of his best friends from childhood (who lived less than a km away, you could see his building from ours) chat through a direct chat where you could see what the other person is typing as they type it. I thought it was the coolest thing. So you'd see the guy type 'fuck' for example, then erase it and send a message without it.

He was a good friend of the family and he killed himself last year. He was a war veteran with a gambling problem whom his wife left years ago and he had a son who never spoke to him.

I also remember his computer was the first computer I played a video game on, Prince of Persia. I remember his son, who was older than me, and I would spend hours redoing that level where you had to drink the right potion or you die.

>2012
>have been living underground/off-the-grid for over five years
>open up msn messenger
>nobody is online
>felt bad man

can we go back to 2003-2004 and forever stay there?

+1

Sorry famm ;_;
We can try.

I miss Linux on desktop
oh wait

this thread is just great.

>Doesn't tech kinda scare you?

No because I grew up. I bet it scares YOU. Nostalgia is all just fear of being unwilling to change, you just hold on to whatever you happened to have at the time and everything else that's too new you have to make up some reason why it sucks.

>can we go back forever to this time where I didn't know anything so I don't have to deal with the current reality that I am a failure
no

The only IM client I know of that showed messages being typed in realtime was ICQ. That could've been the one they were using?

It definitely wasn't ICQ. The whole screen was black. It was very similar to Linux's 'talk'.

>you could share animated hardcore porn emoticons with a modded msn

>the amount of botnet nowadays is not scary

>doesnt technology kinda scare you?

>le every program I don't understand is botnet

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for the nostalgia.. those were the good days