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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by HeckFeck on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:12PM (#28418648)
I had many 'randoms' added on MSN messenger. Usually acquired through everyone inviting his complete contact list to one conversation. We used to discuss all and sundry back then.

I was always slightly more nervous messaging the girls (obvious from their elaborate emoticon-saturated screen names).

Curiously, one of my friends had a contact named '[email protected]' who was always online but never replied.

I sometimes wonder how many of them are doing now.

Re:Back Orifice (1998) by andai on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:11PM (#28419269)
> Usually acquired through everyone inviting his complete contact list to one conversation.

Man, those were the days... Most of my contacts disappeared one by one (except for 2 which are my oldest friends now!), and it seems like that kind of atmosphere (just adding random people to chat) doesn't exist anywhere anymore, does it?

Re:Back Orifice (1998) by mulmboy on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:06PM (#28420189)
Smaller Discord servers are close
Re:Back Orifice (1998) by grioghar on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:43PM (#28421014)
+1

Some of my favorite random people I’ve met, I met playing in various games then gave them my Discord channel.

Good, good times.