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It's somehow horrifying that the unnaturally animated corpse of something that was so cool at the time like MSN Messenger lives on in an abomination like Teams.
by adhesive_wombat 4y ago
It's somehow horrifying that the unnaturally animated corpse of something that was so cool at the time like MSN Messenger lives on in an abomination like Teams.
- jbay808 4y agoMSN Messenger was the best messenging app I ever used, so this actually makes me think more highly of Teams.
- userbinator 4y agoNothing much remains of the original protocol besides the name (MSNP), however; it started out being an IRC-like text-based protocol that MS even submitted to the IETF --- but never reached RFC status[1] --- but in its later years became gradually "XML-ized" and required more and more complexity in the client. The latest major revision of the protocol, which is also what the "new" Skype uses, is basically an HTTP API and thus most suited to being used in a browser, but definitely hinders those wanting to write a native client for it. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-movva-msn-messenger-protocol https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-movva-msn-messen...