Forget Discord, I'm switching back to AIM
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I loved aim back in the day. Truly the pinnacle of instant messaging
AIM, MSN, Yahoo...Tom Scott made a point once, specifically about MSN messenger but it applies to that entire era: those were superior to Facebook messenger and any smartphone-first messenger designed since because it was possible to log off. Logging onto MSN (or Yahoo or AIM) meant you were idle enough to chat so saying hi wasn't an imposition. Since ~2010 it always has been.
Bah, ICQ was where all the cool kids would hang.
I thought that was IRC
mIRC was chaos back in the day. It was magical.
my Buddyprofile was sooooo coooool
If only i had friends that actually wanted to use things other than Whatsapp