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Re:I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others ... by shultays on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:49PM (#32732176)
Huh, was msn fetching the profile picture from other perso (p2p?), and not from msn servers?
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Re:I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others ... by GekkePrutser on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:56PM (#32732640)
It was early days for IM and I guess storage was expensive.

Early ICQ didn't even store the contact list on the server so you had different contacts on every PC.

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