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The MSN Butterfly Effect (814 was experimental)
April 23rd, 2005 by Inky
And not by Microsoft. Nor the MSN Messenger team. In fact, the build wasn’t real, at all. Volvok and Ahmad (A-Patch) were kind enough to do a reshack of MSN Messenger, changed the build to 814 and added a couple of “features”. Must say they are very good reshackers though, because even though the build is fake it does run faster (or would that be psychology? ). Wondered why there never was an installer?

The build spread like crazy, as usual. Mess.be kindly “copied’ it onto their front page and Mastaline did the same, without checking with the people who obtained the build. Even the BETA newsgroups were occupied with it for a while, with all kinds of conspiracy theories about MSN Butterflies leaking it and people breaching their NDA’s and what not more. Some BETA tester even reported a stunning 12 bug reports with screenshots and all (ouch!).

And you thought the community was starting to get boring? Dead? Well Volvok and Ahmad proved quite the opposite: It’s alive and kicking and MSN Messenger is still very popular. With their very well planned prank they showed how many people are really involved. I had a good laugh over it, I hope you did too. Oh and you might want to restore to build 777 .

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04-23-2005 02:59 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com/ }

bit late for April fools isn't lol.

Great prank

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04-23-2005 03:02 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com/ }

I checked this morning at is wasnt there

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bit late for April fools isn't lol.

Thats the whole point ... no one will anticipate this

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04-23-2005 03:04 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PRANSTER

[ :: Volv :: ] says:
well uhh
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
i guess im a good Reshacker
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
better than i thought lol msn_tongue.gif

James // Rafy says:
what the hell did you change?
James // Rafy says:
beacuse it clearly is much better msn_tongue.gif
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
nothing
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
i added 10 lines
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
and didnt touch anything else

James // Rafy says:
and the always on top thing is good
James // Rafy says:
or was that there b4?
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
nah i put that thing on
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
the icon is from the msn 8 concepts
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
i had help from ahmad too btw

James // Rafy --- Moderator: One that arbitrates or mediates. says:
lol did you fool rolando into making messpatch compatible? or was he in on it
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
he was pretty much done
[ :: Volv :: ] says:
i heard he already had people translating it

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04-23-2005 03:05 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com/ }

now thats a real mans prank.

04-23-2005 03:07 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com/ }

Lol thats funny

Bit late for April fools...

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04-23-2005 03:08 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com/ }

meh...

I didnt notice any difference actually :refuck:

I just downloaded it to be "updated"

lol chris4 do you still want the link to download it :refuck:

This is a really funny joke. but dont you think the people who did this can get in trouble? First of all they used reshack on msnger. Which is illegal. And then they uploaded it to the web. (even worse). Then they sent everyone links to it and made it look official...

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04-23-2005 03:44 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com/ }

The point is that people should just never download/install/use leaked build, or whatever that doesn't come from MSN Messenger's official download page. If everyone knows and sticks to it, such unofficial (or even in-native) build wouldn't spread...

I could say this is enough illegal and much more serious than simply leaking private betas...

This post was edited on 04-23-2005 at 03:54 PM by Mnjul.

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04-23-2005 03:49 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com/ }

great prank!!!
some thing was telling me to not install...and i didn't!!!

04-23-2005 03:52 PM

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RE: The MSN Butterfly Effect ( 814 was experimental ) - {http://msnblog.stuffplug.com

Exactly. The purpose of all this was to highlight this.

It has raised some very important issues.

Only download from the official microsoft website!

This post was edited on 04-23-2005 at 04:08 PM by -rafy-.

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04-23-2005 04:06 PM

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