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It's crazy how much more complex it feels like communication has become. Back then basically all of your RL friends were either on AIM or not online at all. I
by Merad 9y ago
It's crazy how much more complex it feels like communication has become. Back then basically all of your RL friends were either on AIM or not online at all. If you were a more tech/internet savvy person you probably also had ICQ for many of the people you met online and you might hang out in a couple of IRC channels. Today even if you aren't a digital social butterfly you probably have half a dozen different messaging/chat apps.
- idunno246 9y agoand it didnt even matter what network others were on, you just installed adium/pidgin/etc which could connect to all of the networks and abstract it away. today everything is completely walled off
- icebraining 9y agoThing is, everything was walled off before too. Microsoft often broke MSN Messenger's protocol, probably on purpose.