Goodbye MSN Chat
6 October 2006A long time ago, I used to use MSN chat a lot. It was a pretty cool place to meet new friends online. This was back in the old days. Then MSN chat became a BOT Haven, spamming users with links and other stuff. After sometime, MSN decided to make their chat service only available to paying customers. I happened to pay for MSN extra storage at one point, thus they gave you the chat service for paying for the extra storage as well. Of course, because of Google’s Gmail, I don’t need it anymore, plus with gmail, I have the exact names I want because I got an early early invite to sign up. :)
After MSN no longer let netizens use their chat services for free, the entire chat service greatly suffered. City chat rooms with over 100 people dwindled down to zero, never being utilized. Only a few chat rooms stayed in demand, such as Los Angeles, and the General and Lobby rooms.
MSN has recently decided to close their chat service all together. As of October 16th , MSN chat will be shut down. There message on their website reads as follows:
MSN Chat will no longer be offered on or after October 16th. To communicate directly with your contacts, please download Windows Live Messenger.
The only other giant chat service still intact is Yahoo Chat. As you may have recalled, Yahoo shut down all the user created rooms, and now only allows the rooms created by Yahoo. While Yahoo remains free and many people still use it, the rooms are filled with mostly BOTS.
Internet chat has really gone down hill from where it used to be, before the Internet became too commercialized and cluttered. Although I say this, the net has some really cool things going on, but I don’t think the classic old school Internet can really be replaced, when it used to still have an underground element to it.
I think on the 15th, I’m going to hang out on MSN chat for one last run. Goodbye MSN Chat, it’s been real.
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October 18th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
First thing I did online was go to a chat room on msn, back then it was 2.5. Like you I have seen bad changes to chat, first bots, then really lousy peer hosting, then a combination.
It ended with this.
This may be as it should be, but I still miss filling some hrs with silly banter and shared laughter. The way chat began.
For me, it ended with Politics. I was right way too often and unwilling to be quiet about it. So people got together to take me out. They said filthy things about me for about two years, Using the spectator section. I faded for awile but came back for the end. It was as I expected.
My former room, nearly vacant for three months or so, was on the last night of msn chat suddenly repopulated with those who had fled. And predictably I was told “don’t” by a host and I replied o.k. although Im still not sure what it was I was supposed to not do…It was a fitting end.
Active X isn’t something I wan’t to run anymore. I think the time has come for us to question the wisdom of most intereactive software.
Just my opinion.
October 18th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
At least like me you got to say goodbye. Here’s to the good memories.
Cheers.
November 12th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
I’d also like to cheers to that. I started using MSN Chat in 2001, and all the way through the end of ‘02. The years went by following, and I came back one day in March of 2006 to see if my old chat names were still online. They were, but MSN Chat had evolved into a paid subscription service. I’m sorry to hear about the depreciation and the abuse to MSN Chat–It was indeed a great service. MSN Chat will never be replaced, but things like Yahoo Chat and Myspace are popular right now. And some day, they to will disappear and be replaced with newer services. Everything changes, but those memories will live on…Salute to MSN Chat…..it will not be forgotten.
Goodbye
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:04 am
Probably not, but the lesson about firewalls will hopefully live on.
May 19th, 2007 at 12:09 am
I’m sitting here, remembering when I got my first computer back in 1998 and the first thing I did was go onto MSN Chat 2.5. I spent years there, in 2 rooms, loyally and now I’m left with just the memories. Memories of the people who frequented them, the converstations, the drama, the “comic chat”… I’m so very sad. I’m not one for change to begin with but I miss those days so much, it makes me cry. I’ll never have that back and I wish to God that MSN didn’t change a thing. It was perfect. This is my goodbye… my closure.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Its sad to see how things work out. Something you enjoyed and was a good source of friends, info and leads gets overused and abused by foolish people and now it is gone.
Hopefully other community formats are developing to take its place.
The beauty of the msn network was that it was ready built in to windows - the most dominant platform. MSN was ubiquitous. It brought in more people and contacts that were not as technically proficient as we expect ourselves to be.
As they say in travel books “Don’t go back.”
June 21st, 2007 at 7:55 pm
I like you all got my pc in 1999. I spent hours in chat my first day. I met some wonderful people there, including my husband of 7 years. I hated that chat turned out the way that it did…heres to the memories.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Sadly it’s not just yahoo and msn that has went down hill But all chat’s
The people in these chat rooms have gotten so rude and hateful it has amaze me that all chat services have not been shut down period.
I myself blame it on all these features that are added to most chat’s people may think those features are really cool and fun to appear to be invisable to someone they do not want to talk to
But as the old sayings goes when the shoe is on the other foot it tends to hurt!
September 28th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I banged a ton of chicks that I met on MSN Chat. How can it ever be replaced? Sigh. Life goes on, but now I must find a new place to pick up chicks.
February 17th, 2008 at 5:23 am
So many sessions of sex over the years of msn . at least 50 . and all the boys getting action too …oh i dream of another msn , if not i will build my own .
April 14th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I’m sitting here, remembering when I got my first computer back in 1998 and the first thing I did was go onto MSN Chat 2.5. I spent years there, in 2 rooms, loyally and now I’m left with just the memories. Memories of the people who frequented them, the converstations, the drama, the “comic chat”… I’m so very sad. I’m not one for change to begin with but I miss those days so much, it makes me cry. I’ll never have that back and I wish to God that MSN didn’t change a thing. It was perfect. This is my goodbye… my closure.