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professor plum May 4th, 2021 7:27 AM

AOL Instant Messenger versus MSN/WLM Messenger
 
Most of my IRL friends were on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and it was the platform I signed up for first (as like...tymew2000 or smth). But, I probably used MSN Messenger a lot more, as most of my online friends used it lmao. If I had to choose between the two, it'd probably be MSN.

Which platform did you prefer? Which did you use the most? (Or did you just use...a completely different platform like Yahoo Messenger)

Inky May 4th, 2021 7:28 AM

Well thas a good question tymew2000, the answer is MSN is superior and anyone who disagrees is wrong and very old (likely over 55)

Caite-chan May 4th, 2021 7:41 AM

I grew up with AOL so it was AOL all the time. Once I got older I had both AOL and MSN.

Hybrid Trainer May 4th, 2021 7:46 AM

MSN was for the cool kids, everything else was used exclusively by nerds B)

Megan May 4th, 2021 7:51 AM

My first one was ICQ. I had MSN for a short while afterwards but dropped it mostly when the first Linux version of Discord was released.

Juno May 4th, 2021 7:56 AM

I think I just missed AOL because no one I knew used that, but I loved MSN so much I had this lmao

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/UT8a8GHXoxaXXagOFbXw/110255005/UT8a8GHXoxaXXagOFbXw.jpg

it lights up and flaps its wings when you get an MSN notification

colours May 27th, 2021 12:41 AM

MSN/WLM is where i spent a vast majority of my early internet years so i'm going to go for that. barely used AIM at all, really.

pkmin3033 May 27th, 2021 2:31 AM

I started on AIM when I was 11 or so and we had dialup...dark days. My teens were spent on MSN and it was my main chat client for years, I had so many contacts and it felt so much easier to connect with people on it. WLM was trash. Like, worse than Skype trash.

ZeoStar May 27th, 2021 8:12 AM

I don't remember AOL or it being a big thing. By the time I was growing up facebook chat was already out there, and that's how i kept in touch with everybody from school. I never felt the need to use anything else.

Palamon May 27th, 2021 10:00 AM

I didn't use either of them? I used Skype, lmfao. By the time i used Aim it was literally dead, and MSN made me anxious because of the loud noises whenever you got messages...now you can't even pay me to use instant messaging services.

Qibli May 27th, 2021 12:15 PM

Old times, I used yahoo messager and MSN messager because it only thing my friend ever used to communicate those were really common back in the days

Tsutarja May 27th, 2021 1:17 PM

i was on multiple IM platforms to the point where i downloaded trillian to condense my resources down

~Dill~ May 29th, 2021 9:51 AM

MSN for me. Spoke to a lot of internet friends via msn who became RL friends <3

Arcaneum May 29th, 2021 12:45 PM

AIM is for those in need of a budget MSN ;D xD

If you didn’t guess, diehard MSN/WLM user here

Ghost Owl June 1st, 2021 8:05 PM

Anyone remember the MsgPlus addon for MSN/WLM? It added a bunch of awesome features like having colors in your display name, pinning contacts to your desktop, etc.

_pheebee June 8th, 2021 1:47 PM

Oh, fond memories of MSN.

That's how me and my life partner stayed in touched.
Staying up till 12am on webcam.
Spam-Nudging friends to the point of annoyance.

Kept in touch with my first few friends from Pokécommunity on MSN too.
I still speak to one of them through discord!

Meganium June 10th, 2021 11:07 AM

I used both back in the day. Half of my friends had AOL and the other half used MSN. It was hard to navigate between the two tbh.

I do miss the little widgets and winks MSN had. Those were epic.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/UntriedGlisteningIndigowingedparrot-max-1mb.gif

Starlight June 11th, 2021 3:47 PM

Met my other half on AOL way back when, so I'mma pick that! <3

Sheep June 13th, 2021 10:58 AM

omg memories. I used both a lot. MSN was my preferred since it had awesome customization... gosh I miss it. D':

pastelspectre June 13th, 2021 10:26 PM

I used AOL for sure a bit growing up. But I definitely used MSN a lot more, mostly as a younger teen before it died out and was discontinued. Idk if that’s the right word.

Kind of upset it’s gone now:(

Nick July 14th, 2021 12:19 AM

I used AIM for friends in school and I used MSN Messenger for internet friends. I ended up using MSN a lot more since it was exciting getting to know new people and having group chats and whatnot. I much prefer that to things like Discord today, honestly.

tokyodrift July 15th, 2021 8:50 AM

I used AIM mainly for talking to friends in middle school. MSN was far superior in my opinion, just because of the amount of customization. I have so many fond memories of MSN and the various group chats I was dragged into.

Sydian July 16th, 2021 5:22 PM

i had both but i preferred MSN, it was just more customizable. i had all my online friends on MSN so obv that was more fun than my AIM, where i had................gag.......locals........

Lucifer September 3rd, 2021 10:08 PM

There is no disputing that AOL was the worst internet provider but it was the most common while I was growing up so it's what we had in my family and it's what my best friend got when they got internet. My best friend was the reason I started IMing so AOL/AIM it was.
I believe we used Yahoo a bit and possibly MSN as well but somehow ended up back on AIM. Then it was Skype for a little bit to accommodate another friend and now we're on Facecbook.

moon September 5th, 2021 10:20 PM

MSN was my main teenage way of communicating, aside from texts ofc because back then we didn't have smartphones so we couldn't have MSN on the go d: only at computers.

Then came Skype as a better alternative when I was in my early 20s I guess, and we used it for a long time. Crazy how Discord has only been big (in my world) since 2016 or even later. But now with smartphones and stuff it's easy to use any app of choice, desktop or mobile doesn't even matter much anymore.

I've basically never used AIM/AOL or whatever that is. IRC? I remember PC had some form of chat place with it? But I never ever went there. I hung out in our staff or RP based Skype groups until we made the Discord server :)


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