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Heck It’s Friday. A little Background History …

I’ve been a MSN Messenger snob for years, since switching from ICQ. I used to really like ICQ too!

You see, I was one of the first thousand ICQ’ers out there and had a 6 digit ICQ number, with the first three numbers were 100xxx. But, my great low ICQ number got compromised back in 2001 and I was in a great imaginery conflict in getting my account back, until I was finally successful. The only thing was, I had moved servers and couldn’t reply with the original hbs@gatewest.net email I had since March 1995. I just decided to get a new ICQ number, but by that time they were issuing ones in millions or tens of millions or something disgustingly popular like that. What are they issuing now? (not that I care)

Anyway - I’ve tried Yahoo Chat and at one time had chat friends on both Yahoo and Netscape (AOL) chat .. I was using the software Trillian which with only one software, I was able to talk to everybody in all three chat platforms - in one platform. After I lost touch with the odd Yahoo and Netscape friends, or converted them all to MSN Messenger, I just started to use MSN Messenger full time.

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