Not quite, MSN messenger had the option to save all your conversations as XML. I still have them in old backups. It's a wild throwback. Even though it is mostl

Not quite, MSN messenger had the option to save all your conversations as XML. I still have them in old backups. It's a wild throwback. Even though it is mostly mindless chatter, it is nice to have. It's definitely a shame that there was no common/interoperable format for locally stored IM history, like there is with emails.