It was the late 90s, social media platforms like Facebook didn't yet exist, texting was in its infancy, email was very popular, instant messaging was up for...

The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.

  • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    Skype was never meant to replace MSN, even back then everyone complained about it and we talked on teamspeak while playing games.