Source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25824019-5014239,00.html
Happy Birthday MSN Messenger!
Who would of thought…10 years ago, where we were?
I think I had only just started High School??? I think?
It’s sad to admit that although I do not remember when I was in High School, I do remember when MSN Messenger was released…and to look back on it now, god hasn’t it come back a long way.
Even when I’m forced to stoop as low as MSN Messenger 6 or even 7 for that matter, I look at those versions and consider them to be absolutely shocking in comparison
Although it’s now called Windows Live Messenger, many of us internet users still refer to it as MSN Messenger, and I think we all will for a long time yet.
Mind you, considering it’s abundance of new features compared to the “good old days”, it’s become more popular than ever….to the point where I know friends and family using it to communicate with relatives, both young and old.
Whilst there is this apparent “competition” between Windows Live Messenger and the likes of Twitter and Skype, I really don’t think there is any competition at all.
Twitter and Skype are targetted at a totally different market of users and considering they state that more than 151 million messages get sent per day, I’d be interested to see Twitter or Skype pull anywhere near those stats. But I’m sure that will change in due course.
Although, we believe MSN has suffered quite alot since the closure of MSN chat rooms, with more and more people turning to these new forms of social communication like Twitter, Skype, Facebook and MySpace…and although we use most of the above, we’ll be staying well clear of MySpace. I really wouldn’t call MySpace a social communication tool…infact, far from it.
And ICQ…god, that was a horrible instant messenger application if ever I saw one! Even Yahoo Messenger was horrible enough…and still is! Infact, I can’t think of anyone who still uses either of those applications.
Even IRC networks and chats are not as popular as they once were. Once again, I blame the closure of MSN chatrooms for this. I used to personally operate a Sydney chatroom targetted at Sydney users, utilising IRC scripts and MSN customised scripts and even I noticed that all died once MSN closed their chat rooms.
Although, seeing notes like:
According to Microsoft, one user recently proposed on Messenger by saying: “My dearest Lan, here are 999 roses, please be my beautiful bride, will you marry me?”
does make me wonder….are our chat’s really being monitored and recorded without our complete knowledge?
And how the hell do you send 999 roses through MSN? The character limit wouldn’t permit it and physical roses can’t be sent through cyber space…so it’s got us stumped!
Well, like I said before, Happy Birthday MSN Messenger.
We look forward to many more years of MSN/Windows Live messenging experiences!
