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thathonkey posted:Didnt microsoft have a chat app that attempted to make the conversation look like an illustrated cartoon or comic?  You might better recognise it from these lunatics, though: 
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Mar 22, 2016 11:22
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thathonkey posted:Didnt microsoft have a chat app that attempted to make the conversation look like an illustrated cartoon or comic? Yeah it was Microsoft Comic Chat: quote:Microsoft Comic Chat (later Microsoft Chat, but not to be confused with Windows Chat, or WinChat) is a graphical IRC client created by Microsoft, first released with Internet Explorer 3.0 in 1996. Comic Chat was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander, with Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group and later a group he managed in Microsoft's Internet Division.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat  vv As below, anotehr page oops! Humphreys has a new favorite as of 08:25 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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Mar 22, 2016 12:13
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thathonkey posted:Didnt microsoft have a chat app that attempted to make the conversation look like an illustrated cartoon or comic? Microsoft Comic Chat. Jerkcity is its lasting legacy. e: oh there was a whole nother page.
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Mar 22, 2016 13:17
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MSN messenger was great, but wasn't it version 7.0 or so when it became a bit bloated and slow? I loved the mess.be website and when folks would get Messenger Plus! It would allow people to have coloured names and some other poo poo. So morons who have long names, were even more annoying as their names now resembled html code if you also didn't have MSN plus. I do find it funny how reliant I was on MSN, but also surprised at how quickly it faded away. I can't remember when I stopped using it. I guess when I got a smart phone?
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Mar 22, 2016 13:55
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JediTalentAgent posted:Anyone else have vague memories of I think K-mart offering a free/discounted internet service (Bluelight.com, I think)? It was that or another one that was heavily ad-supported to offset costs, and then users figured out how to kill the ads or something. Haha yeah, I remember using Excite@Home for free back then. It was the only free service to offer a local number for my bumfuck little town.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:06
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Buttcoin purse posted:I had an Xfire plugin for it back in the day, and have a Steam one now. XFire isn't that old but I remember that being the "gaming" thing back like 10-15 years ago. I think it finally died when the Orange Box came out and people switched en masse to Steam.
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Mar 22, 2016 16:14
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Didn't Xfire have voice chat and let people see what game you were in?
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Mar 22, 2016 17:00
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Robnoxious posted:I still have a 6 digit ICQ # that I check every year or so just to make sure it wasn't hacked the previous year by the Russians. My original number that did get hacked and stolen was 175373.
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Mar 22, 2016 18:05
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Light Gun Man posted:How long until we just live inside a speaker, with the inside surface covered in screen? we've been getting there for a while now 
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Mar 22, 2016 18:44
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The upside of any IM client, no matter age or origin, will always be that it isn't skype chat.
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Mar 22, 2016 19:08
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computer parts posted:XFire isn't that old but I remember that being the "gaming" thing back like 10-15 years ago. I think it finally died when the Orange Box came out and people switched en masse to Steam. XFire only really died when games started migrating to Steam en masse, and VALVe kicked their asses into gear about making a functional friends list and IM client. For the time XFire was really good, and there still are features Steam doesn't even have that XFire did. Iirc, XFire didn't just show what game you friend was playing, but would also list the server, map, and even ping times.
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Mar 22, 2016 19:58
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I used WLM all the way to the end, even though my GF was pretty much the only one I would talk to anymore. Once they made the switch to Skype we ditched it and moved to Steam and Facebook, depending on who we want to talk to.
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Mar 22, 2016 20:46
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Hotmail deleted all my emails ages ago  I'm very upset about that as I lost some old friend contact info I needed. Cojawfee posted:Didn't Xfire have voice chat and let people see what game you were in? yes then steam came along.
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Mar 22, 2016 20:50
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYu3QEMAkAQ
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Mar 22, 2016 22:19
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Cojawfee posted:The biggest prize was Windows Vista Ultimate for 6000 points. I bought a bunch of prizes on the store but Microsoft canceled a lot of people's orders. I ended up getting an Windows Live Messenger bag and Windows Vista Ultimate. I remember I got in a little on the late side, and put in an order for Vista Ultimate but never got anything. "Oh well," I thought, "they must have figured out I was cheating and just killed my order." Then a full year later I got an email from someone at Microsoft saying "hey, we ran out of units, but we just got some more to fulfill some of these orders. Please let us know if this is still the right shipping address!" And then a couple weeks after that my free copy of Vista Ultimate arrived. The upside was that since a year had passed, a lot of the early issues with Vista had already been patched over, so for me the transition was pretty smooth and I never developed the pathological hatred of Vista that everyone else did.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:37
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Hanvent used icq for decades But I still remember my number 19684192
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Mar 23, 2016 00:19
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I knew someone who had 19216811 as their ICQ number
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Mar 23, 2016 01:59
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I knew someone who had 19216811 as their ICQ number Nice! You couldn't choose them though could you? Was it purchased on eBay?
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Mar 23, 2016 02:42
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ishikabibble posted:XFire only really died when games started migrating to Steam en masse, and VALVe kicked their asses into gear about making a functional friends list and IM client. Also racking up a $100+ phone bill playing Gemstone III
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Mar 23, 2016 03:48
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Microwaves Mom posted:Hotmail deleted all my emails ages ago I wonder how many people even know that "Hotmail" was once a pun on "HTML".
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Mar 23, 2016 04:40
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Data Graham posted:I wonder how many people even know that "Hotmail" was once a pun on "HTML". excuse me i think u mean HoTMaiL yeah i had a hotmail account back before they were even bought by microsoft 
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Mar 23, 2016 05:40
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Chilli today, HoT MaiL.
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Mar 23, 2016 05:43
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Data Graham posted:I wonder how many people even know that "Hotmail" was once a pun on "HTML". 
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Mar 23, 2016 05:44
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Hotmail is garbage, Excite and Another are the wave of the future
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Mar 23, 2016 05:59
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sinking belle posted:Hotmail is garbage, Excite and Another are the wave of the future Now that is dedication to remain lovely for over 2 decades. Lycos 4 Lyfe!
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Mar 23, 2016 07:13
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I had a usa.net email address. Looks like they are still up and running.
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Mar 23, 2016 07:42
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Robnoxious posted:Lycos 4 Lyfe! Go get it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6x7Xdy8BtY
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Mar 23, 2016 07:43
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What's all this Hotmail talk? I got a hold of Yahoo! Mail and that's like 5 Megs of storage.
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Mar 23, 2016 07:54
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What I would give to be able to log into my old yahoo and hotmail accounts.
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Mar 23, 2016 08:03
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Jesus Christ posted:What I would give to be able to log into my old yahoo and hotmail accounts. Why Yes Win98, I would LOVE for the reinstall I'm doing to just wipe all my docs and programs. There go the first 3 years of my online life! Who needs high school memories and old addresses and old college acceptance letters.
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Mar 23, 2016 08:15
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I saw one of those cars on the road the other day. Didn't that thing basically kill off Plymouth for good? The thing looks like the front axle will just fall off if you nudge it with your foot. What is your av from?
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Mar 23, 2016 13:12
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I remember when gmail was introduced and it was like 1.8 gigs of storage and everyone was like . Took me a while to get an invite but I have FirstnameLastname@gmail.com which people seem to find vaguely surprising despite the fact that both names are pretty uncommon and as far as I can tell there's only two other people with my name with any kind of web presence.
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I was really jealous of a guy I distantly knew once who managed to nab "agentsmith" as an email address on one of the major providers. (Could have been Gmail but this was before it was the only game in town.) I never found out if he jumped right on it when The Matrix came out or if it was a coincidence because his name was Smith.
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Germstore posted:I remember when gmail was introduced and it was like 1.8 gigs of storage and everyone was like As far as I've ever been able to find, my first/last name combination is entirely unique. Anybody with a combination that remotely resembles mine spells it totally differently. I still had to add 85 to my firstname.lastname to get the gmail address, and I joined back when you needed an invite for it. Never understood how that happened.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:As far as I've ever been able to find, my first/last name combination is entirely unique. Anybody with a combination that remotely resembles mine spells it totally differently. I still had to add 85 to my firstname.lastname to get the gmail address, and I joined back when you needed an invite for it. Never understood how that happened. One of the benefits of being from a small country: my mom grabbed surname@gmail.com, while I put an initial in front to match some other usernames.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I saw one of those cars on the road the other day. Didn't that thing basically kill off Plymouth for good? The thing looks like the front axle will just fall off if you nudge it with your foot. Nah the Prowler was just a Chrysler like anything else, it was only ever just a branding exercise whether the thing got badged as a Plymouth or a Dodge or whatever. Plymouth was a dead brand walking since like the 80s, like Oldsmobile and Mercury. Simply no reason to exist. Car was pretty cool but underpowered, all it did was look funky.
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I never fully understood all the weird car brands. Is it purely marketing to differentiate entry level and luxury? Is it to give the illusion of choice? Do other countries do it? Based only on Gran Turismo I get the impression that in japan cars under the Infiniti marque in america are just sold as Nissans. e: and it just occurred to me that Infiniti, Scion, Acura, Lexus are all western names, so probably just America.
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Germstore posted:I never fully understood all the weird car brands. Is it purely marketing to differentiate entry level and luxury? Is it to give the illusion of choice? Do other countries do it? Based only on Gran Turismo I get the impression that in japan cars under the Infiniti marque in america are just sold as Nissans. Acura doesn't exist in Japan Infiniti is just a luxury Nissan brand
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