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Msn messenger is the best messenger
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Gale
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you know... people actually call me that... thinking its actually funny. My ex, total ass sometimes, would just refer to me as "the 17 yr old" to everyone. he thought it was hilarious. he was 22 and actually called me immature, i dumped him hard core.Hurkyl said:
Gale
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Ya, you shut up too!Townsend said:
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Hey, I'm just observing the fact that 17 looks like a surname in your handle! 
Anyways, people are only numbers until you connect to them. Then, you get their info and they're names. This way, you can have a million people that use, say, "Gale" as their username.
Anyways, people are only numbers until you connect to them. Then, you get their info and they're names. This way, you can have a million people that use, say, "Gale" as their username.
Gale
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293451403 that's my new icq number, someone talk to me on it. i will compare...
Knavish
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I use msn, but some of my friends are switching to Google Talk. Any of you used it?
Gale
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Knavish said:
hmm, no... damn, another messenger eh... i'll test that one later. still waiting on icq... don't make me talk to strangers!
mattmns
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I used to use these things all the time, but have not in quite a while. I used trillian, as it is a pain to have 3/4 different messengers open.
Gale
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ya, i have gaim to access all my messengers at once as well. actually, mostly the only stuff i have on my computer is messengers, window stuff, and adaware... hmm...mattmns said:
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My first ICQ number was something like 135.Gale17 said:
Gale
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hahaha, i was wondering about that. so apparently they're just given out numerically eh... hah.Evo said:My first ICQ number was something like 135.
Gale17, may I suggest Gaim:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/about.php
It supports all the major networks + more.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/about.php
It supports all the major networks + more.
Evo
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Yep, I was one of the first members. One of the developers kept bugging us to try out this new thing they had just created that they named ICQ.Gale17 said:
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Hurkyl said:ICQ has the advantage that it's not a Microsoft product. (and it's not an AOL product!)
I just tried ICQ and I would have to say...crap! nothing but bloatware...
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uninstalled well though...which is a good thing.
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Hurkyl said:ICQ has the advantage that it's not a Microsoft product. (and it's not an AOL product!)
I don't know if you heard but Microsoft is in advanced talks to purchase a significant portion of AOL.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/15/146243&from=rss
Clippy: I looks like you've got mail. Would you like me to open all your attachments?
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dduardo said:
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FYI, there's an ICQ lite. It's actually been many years since I used ICQ, so I don't really know what it's like these days.
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Hurkyl said:
That is what I tried...
Gale
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heh i already said i use gaim...dduardo said:
but you i wasn't so impressed with icq... i like my msn. on icq i could write my aim buddies though... so the connection with aol there...?
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Ek, I should have seen that. It is a little late, my bad.
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aim: easy, fast, best looking client but has annoying ads sometimes.
msn: made by microsoft, not many use it except foreigners imo, and uhhh yea
icq: oldschool chat that nobody uses anymore, long numbers are annoying, ugly interface and overcomplicated
therefore i use aim
msn: made by microsoft, not many use it except foreigners imo, and uhhh yea
icq: oldschool chat that nobody uses anymore, long numbers are annoying, ugly interface and overcomplicated
therefore i use aim
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I have it, and one of my friends has it, but no one really uses it that I know of, so no one else is on.Knavish said:
I like iChat (!), by Apple, I use it for GoogleTalk and AIM. I use MSN because some of my friends are on it, but don't like it at all .
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Hurkyl said:ICQ has the advantage that it's not a Microsoft product. (and it's not an AOL product!)
Actually AOL bought out mirabilis a few years ago, so it is an AOL product.
loseyourname
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Yeah, iChat is fine. It's nice and small and discrete, doesn't have any ads, easy to use, and supports multiple networks. That said, I never use IM programs these days, except to talk to my roommate when I don't want to yell (she uses Trillian, finally renouncing the Dead AIM she always used). I haven't even seen an ICQ interface since the 90s.
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noooooooo!
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Hurkyl said:
What's eating you?
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I have iChat, but never use it because I don't know anyone else who has it. I had AIM years ago, and gave up on it because it never seemed to work right (my friend and I would both be online emailing each other back and forth, and stupid AIM wouldn't show either of us as online...rapid-fire email works almost as well). I know more people who use MSN, but it seems every time I go to use it, they've changed something and I need to upgrade again, so I gave up on that too. I have Yahoo messenger installed, and it's okay. I used it once to chat with Cronxeh. I guess none of them work very well when I don't bother turning them on.Mk said:I like iChat (!), by Apple, I use it for GoogleTalk and AIM. I use MSN because some of my friends are on it, but don't like it at all .
I've never grown very fond of any of those IM things...the limit on number of characters you can type at a time is annoying; I can't communicate with just one sentence at a time. It's only a little faster than just emailing back and forth (unless you have a server that prevents you from checking for new email more frequently than once a minute...had an account set up like that ages ago).
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Strange, AOL bought ICQ, the original ICQ is now AIM. I wonder what this ICQ is? I refused to use ICQ after AOL bought it, as many did. So, what you know as AIM, is what I used as ICQ.Kakarot said:
AOL sharpens ICQ ambitions
Published: June 16, 1999, 11:50 PM PDT
A year ago, America Online paid $287 million for ICQ, a product with 12 million users but no revenue. A year later, its popularity has nearly trebled, but it's still not clear whether ICQ was a good buy.
ICQ, instant messaging and chat software created by four Israeli 20-somethings, had achieved cult-like status among users around the world when AOL snapped it up
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-227245.html?legacy=cnet
I don't use any instant messaging programs. I only signed up for ICQ because one of the people involved kept asking. I hated the constant interruptions and kept it turned off unless someone nagged me to turn it on for awhile.
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JamesU
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I like MSN IM. Much better than AIM, which has a crappy interface (BTW) and AOL is just bad alltogether
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I hate msn messenger, the games on there suck too. They try to include way too many graphical aspects. When I want to play chess, i don't want to wait for a while just for it to load and then turn out to look like complete crap anyway.
AIM's interface is simple, does the job. Everything is there, while in msn's interface, a lot of features that I use are missing, it somehow works worse too.
BTW, I use AIMutation.
EDIT: Honestly, I like trillian, because I can talk to my msn buddies...but I think if everyone used aim, it would be the best. Google talk may turn out to be good too.
AIM's interface is simple, does the job. Everything is there, while in msn's interface, a lot of features that I use are missing, it somehow works worse too.
BTW, I use AIMutation.
EDIT: Honestly, I like trillian, because I can talk to my msn buddies...but I think if everyone used aim, it would be the best. Google talk may turn out to be good too.
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