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However, some stubborn holdouts forced me to keep a copy of the multi-networkedTrillianapp installed on my PC.
Without that, I’d have lost contact with the contrarians who refused to ditch Yahoo!
Windows 98 was pivotal for me, but Windows XP was the peak of my developing Microsoft obsession.
Messenger or whatever already-doomed platform it might have been back then.
Where is it now?
Officially, Windows Live Messenger is dead; a part of Microsoft’s ever-growing graveyard.
It’s a fun toy to play with, but it doesn’t have much staying power beyond that.
In that era, personal websites were booming.
As a pre-teen, building tables with bracketed code was mildly entertaining, but slow to satisfy.
MSN Messenger 6.2 running with escargot.chat.
Nevertheless, it felt like a breakthrough in creativity at the time.
Discord runs on PC, mobile, and even Xbox.
Official art for Microsoft FrontPage 2000.
Windows Movie Maker running on Windows XP.
DaVinci Resolve 19 running on Windows 11.
