On April 8th of this year, Microsoft officially began forcing users from Windows Live (formerly known as MSN) to Skype.
MSN started in 1999 and has really changed the world for the young generations. When I was younger I didn't know a single person who didn't have MSN. It slowly began disappearing, but it always had its glory days.
Teens everywhere have so many memories from the Instant Messaging program. Whether it was stupid group conversations about nothing, the classic "hey sup?" conversations or talking to SmarterChild (maybe just me).
MSN was the birthing ground of so many abbreviations, and was home to countless absolutely pointless conversations. Be honest, we all had these conversations:
Person: hey!
Me: hey
Person: sup?
Me: nm, u?
Person: nm.
Me: cool.
*5 minutes later*
Person: gtg, bye!
Oh the excitement of MSN.
So why did MSN disappear from the face of the Earth?
This one's pretty easy. Newer and better things came out than it.
Probably the coolest thing MSN had was the Nudge feature, which only allowed you to shake the chat window of the other person.
Facebook came out and you could instant message, post pictures, post on walls and MSN all of a sudden seemed like a cheap second.
Then the emergence of cell phones really began, and text messaging turned into mobile instant messaging. This made even facebook seem like a second option.
In today's day and age MSN really has no place. All communication is done through your cell phone, be it text messaging, facebook or instant messaging.
MSN really left behind a huge impact on the world. It is where we got the idea of instant messaging, something that cell phone companies and other websites like facebook have fed off of.
RIP MSN.
MSN started in 1999 and has really changed the world for the young generations. When I was younger I didn't know a single person who didn't have MSN. It slowly began disappearing, but it always had its glory days.
Teens everywhere have so many memories from the Instant Messaging program. Whether it was stupid group conversations about nothing, the classic "hey sup?" conversations or talking to SmarterChild (maybe just me).
MSN was the birthing ground of so many abbreviations, and was home to countless absolutely pointless conversations. Be honest, we all had these conversations:
Person: hey!
Me: hey
Person: sup?
Me: nm, u?
Person: nm.
Me: cool.
*5 minutes later*
Person: gtg, bye!
Oh the excitement of MSN.
So why did MSN disappear from the face of the Earth?
This one's pretty easy. Newer and better things came out than it.
Probably the coolest thing MSN had was the Nudge feature, which only allowed you to shake the chat window of the other person.
Facebook came out and you could instant message, post pictures, post on walls and MSN all of a sudden seemed like a cheap second.
Then the emergence of cell phones really began, and text messaging turned into mobile instant messaging. This made even facebook seem like a second option.
In today's day and age MSN really has no place. All communication is done through your cell phone, be it text messaging, facebook or instant messaging.
MSN really left behind a huge impact on the world. It is where we got the idea of instant messaging, something that cell phone companies and other websites like facebook have fed off of.
RIP MSN.
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