An aside from the sex chat thread

[Santaseviltwin]

A comment on the sex chat thread brought back memories of the early days of the internet.
The screeching noises from the dial up modem opening up a whole new world of people to chat with on platforms such as ICQ MSM and does anyone remember irc chat rooms?

I remember using MSN Messenger a lot, and when emoji's first became a thing.

Other chat rooms haven't changed a lot in terms of how they look.

There are now so many options people have, that can make it hard to keep up.

I've been asked for Discord, Skype, KIK, Telegram, Telepo....to name a few!

My dad got a PC with internet late in the 90s. I remember being so excited to use it, used a disc and dialled up then didn't know what to do once I had got online!

I'm amazed at how fast technology has developed since.

I was on ICQ and the chat rooms that were like a comic strip (Microsoft comic chat) from the age of 11/12. Received my first unsolicited dick pic not long after that. Sometimes I think the internet was a bad idea.

I remener using MSN to chat with my mates after school in the mid - late 90s.

Also remember a chat room in 00/01 that you had a little avatar and physically walked around an illustrated environment and into different rooms to talk to the other avatars there. Can't remember what it was called.

Also remember when you got 10 free texts on your orange sim per day, and the first person to run out of free texts phoned the other person to continue the conversation. No phone book on the phone either - I had my mates numbers written on a paper slip I kept inside the battery compartment/cover!

The main place I used to chat was on a site called NEWD you entered the lobby and then had a choice of rooms to chat in. The most popular was always the BDSM room.
Depending on the time of day you could be chatting with people Aus the US some of which did get quite saucy 😈.

A,S,L ect.

I believe my ones were Yahoo chat I think it was

Remember having sex chat with randoms in chat rooms c1996?! Does that sound right? Could’ve been later. Felt bad about it but my bestie and I were really into it!

My friend tells me it’s ASL

Met my husband on an Mirc chat room. That was 22 years ago! So yes I absolutely remember them. I also had MSN and ICQ.

I can still hear the The 'ooh ohh' alert from icq. Sounded like a broken teletubby to me.

Used to spend a lot of time on AOL punk and ska chat rooms when I was about 16-18, so end of the 90s. I'd log in when I got home from the pub and my parents were always furious about it because the noise of the dial up would wake them.
Ha ha. Feels like a million years ago.
MN's ux hasn't really moved on since then tbh!

@Siameasy 1996 sounds about right maybe we chatted😂

I spent quite some time in the MSN chat rooms 20 odd years ago. A highly amusing way to while away an hour or two, with the occasional all nighter when the conversation flowed!