Animated drawing of my fursonas Hender (1st from left), Noggy (2nd), Hakiya (3rd) and Jacky (4th) waving to the reader

Instant messengers of the past were better and healthier

I miss the instant messenger apps of the past: MSN, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger...

They were super customizable and had a thing that no actual instant messenger app has: the magic of "get online". We reserved a time of the day to log in and chat with our friends, and if they weren't online, we needed to wait them to join too.

Probably smartphones robbed us, since now we're always connected.

But anyway, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and so many other apps that we use everyday don't have 10% of the shine of the apps we used before.

I want these times back.

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