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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?
(www.techspot.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The one thing these messengers had over texts was presence notifications. I remember jumping through hoops to get aim working on my Motorola v188 so that I could be notified every time my crush came online and I could send her a “hey what’s going on”… only for it to be ignored.