Old MSN 'winks'

ChrisD. · 31 May 2015 at 17:30

Stupid thread alert. A friend and I used to send these stupid animations to each other on MSN. One in particular, 'Eat your competition' made us laugh as it makes no sense at all.

Anyone know where one may find a gif or video of this for nostalgic purposes?

DJMK4 · 31 May 2015 at 17:32

Google

ChrisD. · 31 May 2015 at 17:33

I've tried, can only find some other other ones but not the one I want.

V F · 31 May 2015 at 17:36

MSN is now near dead isn't it?

ChrisD. · 31 May 2015 at 17:38

Oh this was back in 2008 or so, I highly doubt that even if MSN were still working, that it'd be on it still.

rickjames · 31 May 2015 at 17:39

Bring back MSN chatrooms, ah

Captain · 31 May 2015 at 17:42

You mean like these?

Or the large ones that took up the screen?

ChrisD. · 31 May 2015 at 17:49

The large one that takes up your screen. It was an animation of some dude wearing red boots, he threw something into the air and then ate it.

I can't believe I'm 32 yet it still makes me laugh thinking about it.

Skeeter · 31 May 2015 at 18:08

V F said:
MSN is now near dead isn't it?

Yep. Rolled into Skype, along with Lync.

V F · 31 May 2015 at 18:11

Even Skype is fading is it not? As even with the transfer I don't see the same amount on Skype/MSN merge as they are on Facebook.

Seems the standard now of instant message is Phone+Facebook.

Zefan · 31 May 2015 at 18:34

I miss MSN, those winks were absolutely awful but also brilliant at the same time. It really was awesome.

RIP MSN.

Craig321 · 31 May 2015 at 18:45

Skeeter said:
Yep. Rolled into Skype, along with Lync.

Lync is also getting rolled into Skype business now.

V F said:
Even Skype is fading is it not? As even with the transfer I don't see the same amount on Skype/MSN merge as they are on Facebook.

Seems the standard now of instant message is Phone+Facebook.

Maybe for personal, but it's definitely alive in business. I use it for both every day.

knip · 31 May 2015 at 18:45

I miss the thing on MSN that meant their whole screen wobbled and it made that noise. A nudge?

Craig321 · 31 May 2015 at 18:45

Hah yes, I remember making a nudge spammer in secondary school

dacads · 31 May 2015 at 18:55

nudge mania, random group convos, personal statuses etc

dat nostalgia

-Mike- · 31 May 2015 at 18:57

Zefan said:
I miss MSN, those winks were absolutely awful but also brilliant at the same time. It really was awesome.

RIP MSN.

Same! They should bring it back... I'd be willing to bet it'd still be popular.

Skeeter · 31 May 2015 at 19:09

V F said:
Even Skype is fading is it not? As even with the transfer I don't see the same amount on Skype/MSN merge as they are on Facebook.

Seems the standard now of instant message is Phone+Facebook.

Craig321 said:
Lync is also getting rolled into Skype business now.

Maybe for personal, but it's definitely alive in business. I use it for both every day.

Thats what I meant, Microsoft are branding all their IM services Skype. We have just moved from Lync to Skype for Business. Any business that uses Office 365 will have it.

Pawnless Endgame · 31 May 2015 at 19:19

V F said:
MSN is now near dead isn't it?

Yeah pretty much. A few of us were still using MSN on the cross-platform client 'Pidgin'. Then M$ finally pulled the plug on us before Christmas, about 6 months ago. Still, that was a good long while after they said they'd pull it. We then moved over to Jabber.

ubersonic · 31 May 2015 at 19:29

V F said:
Even Skype is fading is it not?

Yeah, big time, it's probably going to go down in history as the biggest fail in computing history, bigger even than Xerox giving the GUI and the mouse to Apple because they thought the was no money in it, or IBM letting Microsoft licence DOS to IBM's competitors competitors.

Diddums · 31 May 2015 at 20:20

It makes me wonder however if these things will make a comeback at some point. I have very find memories as a kid of chatting and flirting on msn, I don't know if kids experience that any more.