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    Ahhh good old Napster I forgot about that one… Waiting hours to download a full track only for someone to answer the phone part way through.

    The glory days :)

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      To add to your list of chat programs, the pre MSN chat program that came with Windows, followed by Gooey and Odigo

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        MSN was a blast… I can’t say I used Gooey or Odigo they don’t ring a bell :)

        I remember eventually progressing into IRC relay chat (the app I used to use was called MIRC) and that was a blast.

        I remember the first time talking to someone on MSN and they were in America. I’m not exaggerating when I say it blew my mind ! I could reach out and speak to someone that far away almost instantaneously. It was and still is phenomenal to me. So much so I eventually changed careers to become a developer :)

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          I still keep in contact with a couple of people from Gooey (it shut down around 2002 I think), it was an excellent chat platform, you had chat rooms linked to whatever webpage you were on, very good for common interests. We even had a few meetups, I was working contract work at the time and had a 3 month spell were I travelled around the UK visiting various Internet weirdos.