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.

  • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I was in highschool in the 2000s in Europe, and msn was our default way of communication with classmates.

    • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Yep, early 2000s in the UK and everyone was using MSN. I didn’t know a single person using AIM or ICQ!

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I can see why AIM would be mostly an American phenomenon, given it was initially a feature specific to AOL. ICQ…I like to say I’m 10 minutes too young to have used ICQ, everybody who has wistful memories of it were like the seniors when I was a freshman. Yahoo! was the other one; the perpetual alsoran.