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What's the reason that made you get the messenger in the fist place?

-A friend got you into it?
-You found it and made everyone follow?

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I my case, I found out that it existed and got everyone in my school to use it.

all cuz of a friend.

i used to only use ICQ. BUT, about 1.5 years ago my friend moved to another city and stopped using ICQ and than he made me use msn cuz otherwise i wouldn't be able to talk to him..

after i got into it i stopped using icq as well, and after a while everybody i know converted to msn, now everybody has it. it rules.

My Cousin Aaron in New Brunswick before i got a computer showed me   now i only talk to friends on it

i started using Windows Messenger back in the 90's  an ICQ late 90's i now use MSN Messenger for well coz of MsgPlus an just chattin an sendin files over MSN  ( just wish file transfers over msn was better )

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Originally posted by Demz
i started using Windows Messenger back in the 90's  an ICQ late 90's i now use MSN Messenger for well coz of MsgPlus an just chattin an sendin files over MSN  ( just wish file transfers over msn was better )

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*cough* Cybersex *cough*

well i got into it because of IRC i dint want to talk to all the newbs.

thats why i only have elite people on my list

My girlfriend was using it (when we were like 8-9 yrs old) and i'm like, what's this, your always talking to your cuzins on it and stuff... how does it work....I didn't know I already had msn....I didn't know that hotmail was associated with it... Yeah, she got my into it...

if had msn since i was 6. and im 11 now. I dunno why i got it . I got it then all my friends got it.

My classmate/friend invited me...I clearly remember that it was MSN Messenger 3.0.0025 and on May 16 2001. My friend and I ]had actually been in cold war until then...But on May 16, he invited me to use MSN Messenger....and we reached reconciliation and rebuilt friendship. It was the best birthday gift I've ever got. (May 17 was my 14th birthday)

I just remember using it... :/

Started out with mIRC (Patchou prefered pIRCh at that time), and ICQ (Mirabilis?), and I had an hotmail account even before it was bought by Microsoft... man I'm old

Nice history!

As I said before I was the first in my school but there is a back story to it all!,

Before I even had Internet most of my classmates were using ICQ, and they were always talking about how awesome it was to talk trough the Internet and all.

After months of asking my parents they finally go me connected to the internet (56K ), and one of the first things I did was to download ICQ. When my dad found out I had ICQ he made me uninstall it because at that time there were many news about ICQ being unsecured and that hacker could get into my PC.

Because of that I started looking for an alternative, and I found the MSN Messenger (Or Windows Messenger at that time).