Once on Habbo Hotel some guy's character walked up to mine and asked "a/s/l?" Pretty standard way to start a conversation so I replied. Then he followed up with "Wanna sex?" Now, I was 14 and kind of intrigued as to how this would go being avatars with set animations. So I agreed and he wandered over to one of the sofas and sat down. I followed suit. We sat in silence for a few moments. Then he began to type short phrases such as "urgh" and "humph" and any other way you could think to type a grunt. I burst out laughing and walked off. He didn't follow. Good times.
I'm crying I remember this happening all the time! When they had 'dating rooms' filled with beds and sofas and all the chat was people saying things like that haha
I really find it entertaining/interesting how nostalgic our generation (early - late 20s) is. We sound like middle-aged folks reminiscing on their younger more youthful days, but really we're older youths commenting on our younger youth days lmao. I sometimes think this is why Pokemon GO is so huge rn.. like our nostalgia fueled generation made this a phenomenon.
It is interesting. It's like every decade created their own stuff and their own style and culturally everything was always developing. Now for some reason we've just spent this big block of time just going oh wow remember how cool things were in the 80s/90s! Rather than create our own cool stuff. TV and films and other things feed it too, everything is a remake or a continuation of a thing we already used to like
well lol i mean we did grow up in the 90s.. im basically saying time is moving so quickly now that we're reminiscing on things that happened in like 2005 .. which wasn't thaaaat long ago.
The MSN days was when I started to use the Internet. Even though I'd spend like 8hrs with my peers at school, we always managed to speak about complete utter shite on MSN. It moved onto Bebo. That was THE shit. Giving "luvs", finding your "other half", making "skins" and thinking you're a top notch graphic designer. MySpace was pretty popular in my school too. Writing bulletins that were quizzes were truly the highlight of the site for me. I remember "PC4PC" being a thing. You'd write a compliment on someone's pic and be a cheeky bitch and write "pc4pc?xxx" at the end. Ahhh memories. Top 8 friends, don't get me started. Had many fall outs because of that system! I thought I was a such a boss tweaking the code to a theme. Piczo was also a thing. Idk if that's considered a social media, but it made me think I was a savvy web designer. Everything went downhill when everyone joined Facebook. I find social media boring tbh. I don't get the thrill anymore of visiting Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr. I feel like most social medias are the same now. There are no uniqueness anymore.
Hahaha i forgot about "pc4pc". Crazy to think that was acceptable to do and people would happily oblige to do this. Can't say people would do the same now!
I dated so many people on club penguin and one time I tried to ask someone out and they said "I'm a girl" and I said "so?" and she blocked me. Internet homophobia at its worst.
So many memories with MSN & the chatrooms... I even had a myspace page... ARG THE NOSTALGIA I remember that in 2002 ( 14 years ago omg), a friend of mine send me an album (first album of 30 seconds to Mars lol) BY msn and it took 5 hours!! I thought he was so cool (i had the hugest crush on him btw) bc i actually ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADED IT!
Oh my gosh. I loved watching this. This just caused so many early internet memories to flood back. I think some of my cring-iest memories I have are sitting on AOL playing slingo and chatting in the slingo chatroom. I will also never forget the excitement when someone I liked turned off their away message on AIM. So so crazy to think back on. I can't wait to read Emma's book!
Well I'm 14 and yeah I think there are definitely times when I'm like "why are we trusted with all of this?!" But, I couldn't imagine living any other way having had my entire life so far affected by the Internet so I think now being 14 means a very different thing to why it meant even 5 or 10 years ago
Oh god the nostalgia! I pretty much started my relationship with my soon to be husband over msn because I was too shy to talk to him in person at college and I was on Myspace all the time, I was obsessed with it. : ]
The thing I miss the most about Myspace was you could customize your page a lot more than FB. I wish I could add a song to my profile or change the background lol. I actually met my now Boyfriend of 7 years via Myspace. Crazy nostalgia.
I'm really glad I got to grow up before the internet became SUCH a big part of daily life for young people; only being able to be online when I was at home and able to use the family computer when I was in my early teens was definitely (I think) a blessing in disguise
when i was young we used to use ICQ and i was in a relationship with someone from my class and when i wanted to break up with him, i texted him when he was offline so i wouldnt have to be confronted with the situation. after that i told my friends that i dumped him and i was glad etc but the next day in school he came up to me and was completely normal and everyone asked him why he still talks to me bc i broke up with him yesterday but he was confused and told us that he wasnt online the day before so thats one of my most emberassing stories
Loved hearing all this and will be checking out Emma's writing! MSN & Myspace were life. So much nostalgia...I remember the sound of dial up internet so so well. Disappointed in your lack of mention of Neopets though hahaha I don't think I would trust myself with the internet these days either and I do sometimes think it's a shame for these 12 year old nows who are on all the social medias but everything they post is going to be there for LIFE. At least when we said stupid shit it was just to eachother.
I was on HabboHotel and i didn't have boobs yet. I was talking in a room to this guy and he asked what cup size my boobs where. I was so young that i didn't even know that boobs had cupsizes. So i googled average size boobs and is told him i had B. Now when i'm looking back at it it's so cringy!
Funny you said that about Emma's podcast Hannah, I feel the exact same way about who you bring onto your channel! HOW DO YOU FIND THESE PEOPLE AND WHERE CAN I FIND MORE OF THEM kinda thing. Love the topics and people you bring into the limelight
i really only used msn to sound silly sound clips back and forth with my friends, but there was this one time i had a taylor swift icon (???) and some guy from school messaged me and was asking me about it and asked if it was a picture of a statue...ended with "lol". most awkward middle school interaction, yet in the context of msn i remember it so vividly.
Wow this video brought back tooooooooo many memories! I think it's actually quite scary how the internet is now and for young people to be on it. When I say young I mean under 12 sort of age, it's an interesting topic. Totally interested in picking up Emma's book now!
the msn sticker animation things were my fave. everyone used to trade them and it was the most exciting thing for some reason. most of my friends didn't actually have it though?? i think we were a bit young
I remember in middle school (8th grade) I had a computer class with my friends but we didn't all sit next to each other so we found a lyric website that had a chat room so we could all instant message each other. (At school, like every website was blocked and it was hard to find a proxy website that didn't get shut down after a day). I also remember meeting someone in the chat room who would always come back day after day at the same time to talk to me
I used to use 'Stardoll' when I was 9 where you'd just dress up celebrity dolls and create your own space! Paid for the 'superstar' membership on that too... ALSO I disobeyed my parents and got Bebo before I turned 13 (they were very aware of age restrictions), and I could only go on it at my friends (because we had just a family computer then)meaning I would often miss out on a lot of the things that were happening with my friends online. :(
Summing up all your emotions in the bar under your msn name was the shit. If you wanted to know the drama, just read that little bar and you were golden.
Forums were my thing back in the day. I was obsessed with one of the Australian Idol contestants and had the most posts on his forum lmao (over 10,000 posts!).
Oh man, the MSN days... I remember when I was 14 I tried to help my best friend at the time get a girl to notice him and then pluck up the courage to ask her out, and during that time I developed a crush on him myself. After he "gave up" on her, he said he liked me. So we went out for a whole ~week~ and in school we'd secretly hold hands and then once we got home we'd talk all evening on MSN and then text until we fell asleep. But, the girl ended up asking him out, and he broke up with me (on MSN of course) to then be with her. The funniest part was that he had taken a beautiful photo of NYC at night when he'd visited there a few weeks before, and while we were "together" he said some cheesy line about me being 'the only thing more beautiful than.... This' and then changed his display picture to that photo. He changed it back a few minutes later. So the following week after he'd dumped me and was in a relationship with her, I noticed his display picture change to that photo again and then change back a few minutes later... So he used the same line on her omg.
It was really interesting watching this as a 15 year old. Especially the bit when you were both talking about whether or not you would trust your younger self online, because I don't think I would trust myself online if I was 15 before 2009. It's weird though, because I think now there is 'rules' about being 'cool' online and somehow you just learn them
YESSS! All about that msn life. I would do the whole signing off then signing on so my crush would see. Or using special characters and cool song lyrics as my name/message. The most cringe worthy thing I once did is flat out asked a crush if they liked me and claimed it was my friend. Needless to say he saw right through it. Makes me a little sad to know that today's youth will never know our struggles.
One time I met a stranger on MSN and we chatted for a bit. We finally went out on a date and I thought things were going good. She then went to the bathroom for a bit and NEVER came back! I never heard from her again.
Remember when MSN had video chat but there wasn't any audio (or I didn't have any because I didn't have a mic) so it was just instant messaging plus video which is just super weird, but the web cams were these massive chunky things you'd have to try and prop up somewhere on your monitor and then the camera quality was shocking like 1 or 2mp so everything was pixelated and blue and would freeze every five seconds. I remember we used to move super fast when we froze so it would look like we teleported to the other side of the screen when it unfroze. I was a cool 12 year old.
i'm a bit younger than you two but man i still have old diary entries from when i was 8, 9, and 10 years old that read "I met this amazing guy in a yahoo chat room! He's 29 and so nice and funny/doesn't care that i'm still a kid. When I'm old enough I want to go meet him" I have some nostalgia about old school internet but i'm a whole hell of a lot more glad i was never kidnapped or something lmao
This video is giving me so much nostalgia. Im now sweating from the anxieties i had back in the MSN days. Cant tell if the dumping thing was a joke. I hope it was a joke.
MSN! wow the nostalgia ahaha. I remember copy and pasting conversations with my crush to my best friend so she could give me advice while he was also asking her advice so she basically had a conversation with herself :p I was so gutted when Skype took over MSN :/
i wasn't allowed MSN as a kid but I can remember sitting in the computer room (old school I know) of my friend's house and messaging her crush when she had left the room saying she fancied him. We were 12 and I still cringe about it now!
Me and my habbo friends used to go on habbo holidays where we'd go to foreign versions of the site and make accounts there and go on there for a few days instead! I also met my first girlfriend on habbo hotel, added her on msn and MySpace and we used to talk on the phone. Oh and dark starlings and vampire freaks, which were popular amongst the goth and alternative communities even before MySpace!
I used to love habbo... I always used to gamble furni on those dice rolls for no reason! The MSN thing was so big. I used to have like people in my name with hearts and stuff. and TAGGED?! who remembers tagged?!
I used to have msn and there was this place were you could share pictures and people would coment on them. I got so exited when people would say something. Then when I was a bit older I had this spanish social media page where I used to post all sorts of pictures.I remember one time when we were on a birthday party and this friend of mine would start texting some guy on the page and we were all speaking to him
Me and my best friend at the time used to play club penguin and Zwinky all the time, which we should have not been playing omg but MSN was my fave, I used to love changing all the fonts and colours on there. TBH my biggest arguments I've ever had were because of MSN lol
Interesting shocking fact: More than 4 billion people are still without internet access. That means 60% of the world population have no idea what you're talking about on this video.... Oh wait, they can't even see it.
I was such a brat on Habbo Hotel, I loved the game Costume Change, like so obsessed, I used to win almost all of them and I had an online group of really obnoxious young people and it was great. Fastest Typer was another favourite. And does anyone remember Runescape? OBSESS£ED. Did all the quests. I had a boyfriend on there who used to always give me gold. First and last experience of having a sugar daddy. I also had another lure me into the wilderness and kill me for my armour. Online MMORPG relationships are great
I was arguing with a "friend" on MSN and i was shaking because i was upset and my stomach kind of hurt, so i went to the bathroom and had my first period
Back in probably 2007/08, I was friends with two guys I met on a The Legend of Zelda fan forum and we had an ICQ (which, to the uninitiated with ICQ, worked with arbitrary numbers instead of usernames) group chat called "The Triumvirate of Evil" where we brainstormed ideas for future Zelda dungeons and talked about hobbies, school and other stuff like that. So dorky and cringe-y. And of course I also used ICQ to ask classmates for homework and to annoy my sister xD
Nah tho Moshi Monsters, Neopets + Club Penguin is where it was at. Leaving the wheel of monotony spinning + also checking up on your moshling garden in different tabs whilst visiting igloos
I'm so sorry to hear you got dumped by text! That's a horrible way of breaking up! :( I didn't get on the Internet until 1997, and I didn't use it much until 2009. Sorry! All my early experiences were pretty nice ones. I didn't start "living online" until 2014, so I don't have any MSN or other types of stories.
I recently decided to try and go back on habbo and trusty old me, I got back into my account from 2010, it hasn't changed and the text language is still very common and it's kind of the same.
I met a lot of friends on a forum once... Oh yeah, forums... I'm still friends with one or two of them. We talked every day, and looking back, I was actually really funny and eloquent for a 14-year-old. I used a lot of slang words and niche phrasings that I completely forgot about since then. The only problem was that one of the group chats became quite toxic at some point, and even though everybody supported each other, it still felt like we weren't helping much. A lot of us started self-harming and the conversation revolved around that a lot, and one of us, a girl with leukemia -if that was true-, went offline and we thought she died. Maybe she did, I don't know.
My very first chat room experience: a friend of mine and myself were chatting with a guy and it was leading nowhere good. He at one point asked us our bra sizes and since we were too young to really know (maybe 12?) we asked her older sister what to reply with. I look back at that with the most cringe - what was I doing?!
my earliest internet experiences revolved around discovering what it was like to be a sexual being via omegle, gaia online, stickcam, wee world, any website any where lolol
I once was at a friend's place who recently invested in a cam. We went online to chat with people, and after a quick "asl" we put our cam on with a girl. It turns out she showed us her bits, but the resolution was too crappy for us to realise that in less than a minute or so.
when i played habbo when i was like 11 i catfished someone (by making up like 50 different people/accounts and using all those accounts at different points) and i felt really bad about it because i thought i was hurting a family of like 50 other people, turned out this girl was doing the same thing to me and she was the same age as me. shortly after, we became best friends. we stopped speaking like 2 years ago when we were 15 but it's still one of the weirdest moments. catfishing is bad dont do it kids.
I played Habbo Hotel when I was 11 and once used £3 of my phone credit in order to buy a bed. I can even remember exactly what bed it was, the pink 'cubie' one because I just thought it looked like a cool teenager cabin bed kind of thing. My mum then looked at my phone statement and asked me what the £3 was for and I pretended I didn't know. Lying about that was scary, but less so than telling her I had spent actual money on a pixelated computer game where you could talk to strangers completely uncensored.
little did hannah know
the little did hannah know part made me crack up but i feel so bad for you :")
+Hannah Witton I can't believe he dumped you by text! Then again I can't believe he dumped you full stop xo
***** Im glad you got a giggle out of your own situation!
/hugs *8 )
+Hannah Witton
I can't believe someone dumped you and by text, how immature.
Omg I felt so bad at 2:40 hahah. Loved you both in this video and I hope your book is going well Hannah xx
I found that part much funnier than I probably should have.
Once on Habbo Hotel some guy's character walked up to mine and asked "a/s/l?" Pretty standard way to start a conversation so I replied. Then he followed up with "Wanna sex?" Now, I was 14 and kind of intrigued as to how this would go being avatars with set animations. So I agreed and he wandered over to one of the sofas and sat down. I followed suit. We sat in silence for a few moments. Then he began to type short phrases such as "urgh" and "humph" and any other way you could think to type a grunt. I burst out laughing and walked off. He didn't follow. Good times.
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It was you! I should have known!
I had several Habbo sexy times in the teleporters that would take you from room to room. Obviously our *sex* *moan* *sex* required a lot of privacy.
I'm crying I remember this happening all the time! When they had 'dating rooms' filled with beds and sofas and all the chat was people saying things like that haha
I'm giggling
I vividly remember playing the Club Penguin field. I had about 4 different penguin boyfriends. 11 year old me was a player.
I really find it entertaining/interesting how nostalgic our generation (early - late 20s) is. We sound like middle-aged folks reminiscing on their younger more youthful days, but really we're older youths commenting on our younger youth days lmao. I sometimes think this is why Pokemon GO is so huge rn.. like our nostalgia fueled generation made this a phenomenon.
It is interesting. It's like every decade created their own stuff and their own style and culturally everything was always developing. Now for some reason we've just spent this big block of time just going oh wow remember how cool things were in the 80s/90s! Rather than create our own cool stuff. TV and films and other things feed it too, everything is a remake or a continuation of a thing we already used to like
well lol i mean we did grow up in the 90s.. im basically saying time is moving so quickly now that we're reminiscing on things that happened in like 2005 .. which wasn't thaaaat long ago.
The MSN days was when I started to use the Internet. Even though I'd spend like 8hrs with my peers at school, we always managed to speak about complete utter shite on MSN.
It moved onto Bebo. That was THE shit. Giving "luvs", finding your "other half", making "skins" and thinking you're a top notch graphic designer.
MySpace was pretty popular in my school too. Writing bulletins that were quizzes were truly the highlight of the site for me. I remember "PC4PC" being a thing. You'd write a compliment on someone's pic and be a cheeky bitch and write "pc4pc?xxx" at the end. Ahhh memories. Top 8 friends, don't get me started. Had many fall outs because of that system! I thought I was a such a boss tweaking the code to a theme.
Piczo was also a thing. Idk if that's considered a social media, but it made me think I was a savvy web designer.
Everything went downhill when everyone joined Facebook. I find social media boring tbh. I don't get the thrill anymore of visiting Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr. I feel like most social medias are the same now. There are no uniqueness anymore.
Hahaha i forgot about "pc4pc". Crazy to think that was acceptable to do and people would happily oblige to do this. Can't say people would do the same now!
Noooooo I forgot about piczo!!
I dated so many people on club penguin and one time I tried to ask someone out and they said "I'm a girl" and I said "so?" and she blocked me. Internet homophobia at its worst.
considering you only got blocked I'd consider that internet homophobia at it's best. it can be soooooooooooooo much worse
remember when habbo hotel used to change swear words to bobba? ah simpler times...
that was what my life was back then..
Oh the memories
I love how much Hannah is playing wth her pillow, it makes me so happy
MSN was life! Such a huge part of my life growing up, loved it so so much 😂
OMG just yesterday I logged into Habbo Hotel! oh the nostalgia
So many memories with MSN & the chatrooms... I even had a myspace page... ARG THE NOSTALGIA
I remember that in 2002 ( 14 years ago omg), a friend of mine send me an album (first album of 30 seconds to Mars lol) BY msn and it took 5 hours!! I thought he was so cool (i had the hugest crush on him btw) bc i actually ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADED IT!
Oh my gosh. I loved watching this. This just caused so many early internet memories to flood back. I think some of my cring-iest memories I have are sitting on AOL playing slingo and chatting in the slingo chatroom. I will also never forget the excitement when someone I liked turned off their away message on AIM. So so crazy to think back on. I can't wait to read Emma's book!
Well I'm 14 and yeah I think there are definitely times when I'm like "why are we trusted with all of this?!" But, I couldn't imagine living any other way having had my entire life so far affected by the Internet so I think now being 14 means a very different thing to why it meant even 5 or 10 years ago
Oh god the nostalgia! I pretty much started my relationship with my soon to be husband over msn because I was too shy to talk to him in person at college and I was on Myspace all the time, I was obsessed with it.
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Logging in and out of MSN 20 times rapid just so the person you fancied would REALLY know you were "online". Ah the good old daysssss (6)
The thing I miss the most about Myspace was you could customize your page a lot more than FB. I wish I could add a song to my profile or change the background lol. I actually met my now Boyfriend of 7 years via Myspace. Crazy nostalgia.
I'm really glad I got to grow up before the internet became SUCH a big part of daily life for young people; only being able to be online when I was at home and able to use the family computer when I was in my early teens was definitely (I think) a blessing in disguise
Omg this is too much nostalgia for one day. Send halpppp (but I secretly love it)
when i was young we used to use ICQ and i was in a relationship with someone from my class and when i wanted to break up with him, i texted him when he was offline so i wouldnt have to be confronted with the situation. after that i told my friends that i dumped him and i was glad etc but the next day in school he came up to me and was completely normal and everyone asked him why he still talks to me bc i broke up with him yesterday but he was confused and told us that he wasnt online the day before so thats one of my most emberassing stories
this was great. I also grew up on a lot of the stuff you mentioned. great video, Hannah. Emma seems so nice :]
Loved hearing all this and will be checking out Emma's writing! MSN & Myspace were life. So much nostalgia...I remember the sound of dial up internet so so well. Disappointed in your lack of mention of Neopets though hahaha I don't think I would trust myself with the internet these days either and I do sometimes think it's a shame for these 12 year old nows who are on all the social medias but everything they post is going to be there for LIFE. At least when we said stupid shit it was just to eachother.
MSN, ICQ, and AIM ... Myspace. This brings back so many memories
I was on HabboHotel and i didn't have boobs yet. I was talking in a room to this guy and he asked what cup size my boobs where. I was so young that i didn't even know that boobs had cupsizes. So i googled average size boobs and is told him i had B.
Now when i'm looking back at it it's so cringy!
Funny you said that about Emma's podcast Hannah, I feel the exact same way about who you bring onto your channel! HOW DO YOU FIND THESE PEOPLE AND WHERE CAN I FIND MORE OF THEM kinda thing. Love the topics and people you bring into the limelight
Just ordered her book I can't wait😁
i really only used msn to sound silly sound clips back and forth with my friends, but there was this one time i had a taylor swift icon (???) and some guy from school messaged me and was asking me about it and asked if it was a picture of a statue...ended with "lol". most awkward middle school interaction, yet in the context of msn i remember it so vividly.
Wow this video brought back tooooooooo many memories! I think it's actually quite scary how the internet is now and for young people to be on it. When I say young I mean under 12 sort of age, it's an interesting topic. Totally interested in picking up Emma's book now!
Love to see our pillows in your video, Hannah! 😄
Told my now GF back in the old days I first liked her over MSN.. Hahaha 😂😳
the msn sticker animation things were my fave. everyone used to trade them and it was the most exciting thing for some reason.
most of my friends didn't actually have it though?? i think we were a bit young
I remember in middle school (8th grade) I had a computer class with my friends but we didn't all sit next to each other so we found a lyric website that had a chat room so we could all instant message each other. (At school, like every website was blocked and it was hard to find a proxy website that didn't get shut down after a day). I also remember meeting someone in the chat room who would always come back day after day at the same time to talk to me
Oh man! Msn, habbo and hyves were such a massive part of my childhood
I used to use 'Stardoll' when I was 9 where you'd just dress up celebrity dolls and create your own space! Paid for the 'superstar' membership on that too...
ALSO I disobeyed my parents and got Bebo before I turned 13 (they were very aware of age restrictions), and I could only go on it at my friends (because we had just a family computer then)meaning I would often miss out on a lot of the things that were happening with my friends online. :(
The nostalgia omg
The funniest thing was having the old days equivalent of 'emojis' on msn for shortcuts. Every word I sent had a flashing animated version!
+anna barnardwright omg I used to be obsessed with them haha !
i love emma's shirt! does anyone now where it's from?
Me too!! Anyone know??
I think it's lazy oaf
lazy oafs
Am I the only one that thinks it looks like a water melon ?
+The Golden Radio nope it's supposed to!!
Summing up all your emotions in the bar under your msn name was the shit. If you wanted to know the drama, just read that little bar and you were golden.
The Pool was the hotspot to hookup, asking 'asl' and removing them as a friend if you didn't like them on Habbo.. Wow, memories!
Aw i feel so bad that you were dumped by text😞 I hope you move on quickly and in a positive way X I love you Hannah! 💘
Forums were my thing back in the day. I was obsessed with one of the Australian Idol contestants and had the most posts on his forum lmao (over 10,000 posts!).
Oh man, the MSN days...
I remember when I was 14 I tried to help my best friend at the time get a girl to notice him and then pluck up the courage to ask her out, and during that time I developed a crush on him myself. After he "gave up" on her, he said he liked me. So we went out for a whole ~week~ and in school we'd secretly hold hands and then once we got home we'd talk all evening on MSN and then text until we fell asleep.
But, the girl ended up asking him out, and he broke up with me (on MSN of course) to then be with her.
The funniest part was that he had taken a beautiful photo of NYC at night when he'd visited there a few weeks before, and while we were "together" he said some cheesy line about me being 'the only thing more beautiful than.... This' and then changed his display picture to that photo. He changed it back a few minutes later.
So the following week after he'd dumped me and was in a relationship with her, I noticed his display picture change to that photo again and then change back a few minutes later... So he used the same line on her omg.
Habbo was like the upgraded teenage version of club penguin 😂
the upgraded teenage sexually experimenting version apparently :O
Those emoji pillows are adorable
It was really interesting watching this as a 15 year old. Especially the bit when you were both talking about whether or not you would trust your younger self online, because I don't think I would trust myself online if I was 15 before 2009. It's weird though, because I think now there is 'rules' about being 'cool' online and somehow you just learn them
***** that's exactly what I was trying to say. Although mine was more of an awkward ramble
YESSS! All about that msn life. I would do the whole signing off then signing on so my crush would see. Or using special characters and cool song lyrics as my name/message. The most cringe worthy thing I once did is flat out asked a crush if they liked me and claimed it was my friend. Needless to say he saw right through it. Makes me a little sad to know that today's youth will never know our struggles.
One time I met a stranger on MSN and we chatted for a bit. We finally went out on a date and I thought things were going good. She then went to the bathroom for a bit and NEVER came back! I never heard from her again.
Remember when MSN had video chat but there wasn't any audio (or I didn't have any because I didn't have a mic) so it was just instant messaging plus video which is just super weird, but the web cams were these massive chunky things you'd have to try and prop up somewhere on your monitor and then the camera quality was shocking like 1 or 2mp so everything was pixelated and blue and would freeze every five seconds. I remember we used to move super fast when we froze so it would look like we teleported to the other side of the screen when it unfroze. I was a cool 12 year old.
Thinking about the old internet makes me nostalgically sad
i'm a bit younger than you two but man i still have old diary entries from when i was 8, 9, and 10 years old that read "I met this amazing guy in a yahoo chat room! He's 29 and so nice and funny/doesn't care that i'm still a kid. When I'm old enough I want to go meet him"
I have some nostalgia about old school internet but i'm a whole hell of a lot more glad i was never kidnapped or something lmao
This video is giving me so much nostalgia. Im now sweating from the anxieties i had back in the MSN days.
Cant tell if the dumping thing was a joke. I hope it was a joke.
*****
:( Well thats a big pile of poo!
I have a whole video about how I met my best friend through Habbo Hotel omg
The pillow emojis are so cute
MSN! wow the nostalgia ahaha. I remember copy and pasting conversations with my crush to my best friend so she could give me advice while he was also asking her advice so she basically had a conversation with herself :p I was so gutted when Skype took over MSN :/
i wasn't allowed MSN as a kid but I can remember sitting in the computer room (old school I know) of my friend's house and messaging her crush when she had left the room saying she fancied him. We were 12 and I still cringe about it now!
Me and my habbo friends used to go on habbo holidays where we'd go to foreign versions of the site and make accounts there and go on there for a few days instead! I also met my first girlfriend on habbo hotel, added her on msn and MySpace and we used to talk on the phone. Oh and dark starlings and vampire freaks, which were popular amongst the goth and alternative communities even before MySpace!
Oh man the old days! Why does no one ever mention AOL chat and chat rooms? That alongside MSN was pretty much where I wasted my teen years!
I used to love habbo... I always used to gamble furni on those dice rolls for no reason! The MSN thing was so big. I used to have like people in my name with hearts and stuff. and TAGGED?! who remembers tagged?!
I used to have msn and there was this place were you could share pictures and people would coment on them. I got so exited when people would say something. Then when I was a bit older I had this spanish social media page where I used to post all sorts of pictures.I remember one time when we were on a birthday party and this friend of mine would start texting some guy on the page and we were all speaking to him
i still get excited about notifications lol (particularly youtube and twitter ones)
IMVU was another old school chat room.. daym
oh my gosh I love love love Emma's shirt! It's fantastic does anyone know where it is from or did she make it herself?!
Me and my best friend at the time used to play club penguin and Zwinky all the time, which we should have not been playing omg but MSN was my fave, I used to love changing all the fonts and colours on there. TBH my biggest arguments I've ever had were because of MSN lol
Loved this video! :)
I remember being on HI5, did you guys have one? haha Omg, I feel old x)
I miss MSN so much
Last time I was this early to a video, I was still chatting on AOL Instant Messenger
Using filters on MySpace to make your pictures really artsy and using them before they were cool
This is so funny and relateable! 😅 MSN 🙏🏻 hahaha
Interesting shocking fact:
More than 4 billion people are still without internet access. That means 60% of the world population have no idea what you're talking about on this video.... Oh wait, they can't even see it.
Yep, the world is much bigger then many privileged people think.
I was such a brat on Habbo Hotel, I loved the game Costume Change, like so obsessed, I used to win almost all of them and I had an online group of really obnoxious young people and it was great. Fastest Typer was another favourite. And does anyone remember Runescape? OBSESS£ED. Did all the quests. I had a boyfriend on there who used to always give me gold. First and last experience of having a sugar daddy. I also had another lure me into the wilderness and kill me for my armour. Online MMORPG relationships are great
You just made me remember sooo much stuff 😆
when I first saw the thumbnail, I thought it was a Hannah/Emma Blackery-collab and I was ready to die happily. this was okay too.
I was arguing with a "friend" on MSN and i was shaking because i was upset and my stomach kind of hurt, so i went to the bathroom and had my first period
***** Thanks :P
My current relationship began nearly 8 years ago on msn at the age of 14.
Ahhh the nostalgia xD
lots of notifications now = oh god what've i said that's offended people
Constantly Nudging someone on MSN until you're band do to so for a minute! Omg
Signing out of msn and signing back in after your crush comes on so he sees your online 😂👍🏻
I think they should bring the top 10 friends list from myspace to facebook 😂
Sending Music via msn and it took hours. Good old days. Had like 3 pete Doherty songs on my computer. Proud little me.
Back in probably 2007/08, I was friends with two guys I met on a The Legend of Zelda fan forum and we had an ICQ (which, to the uninitiated with ICQ, worked with arbitrary numbers instead of usernames) group chat called "The Triumvirate of Evil" where we brainstormed ideas for future Zelda dungeons and talked about hobbies, school and other stuff like that. So dorky and cringe-y.
And of course I also used ICQ to ask classmates for homework and to annoy my sister xD
Nah tho Moshi Monsters, Neopets + Club Penguin is where it was at. Leaving the wheel of monotony spinning + also checking up on your moshling garden in different tabs whilst visiting igloos
Bring Back MSN :D Good old days on webcam haha :D
I'm so sorry to hear you got dumped by text! That's a horrible way of breaking up! :(
I didn't get on the Internet until 1997, and I didn't use it much until 2009. Sorry! All my early experiences were pretty nice ones. I didn't start "living online" until 2014, so I don't have any MSN or other types of stories.
Best quick comment "unsubscribe.." by Emma
I always used to log off and log back into MSN until someone popped up and talked to me haha
I recently decided to try and go back on habbo and trusty old me, I got back into my account from 2010, it hasn't changed and the text language is still very common and it's kind of the same.
Maybe make a video about it? Just an idea, the interface is confusing though. You replying made my day by the way :)
Omg, MSN. Did anyone else use so many of those flashing, blinking text emoticons that it was almost impossible to read what you had written?
I met a lot of friends on a forum once... Oh yeah, forums... I'm still friends with one or two of them. We talked every day, and looking back, I was actually really funny and eloquent for a 14-year-old. I used a lot of slang words and niche phrasings that I completely forgot about since then. The only problem was that one of the group chats became quite toxic at some point, and even though everybody supported each other, it still felt like we weren't helping much. A lot of us started self-harming and the conversation revolved around that a lot, and one of us, a girl with leukemia -if that was true-, went offline and we thought she died. Maybe she did, I don't know.
My very first chat room experience: a friend of mine and myself were chatting with a guy and it was leading nowhere good. He at one point asked us our bra sizes and since we were too young to really know (maybe 12?) we asked her older sister what to reply with. I look back at that with the most cringe - what was I doing?!
OMG Habbo Hotel though!!
my earliest internet experiences revolved around discovering what it was like to be a sexual being via omegle, gaia online, stickcam, wee world, any website any where lolol
I haaated the MySpace top friends thing because my friends never put me in their top friends LOL 😭
I once was at a friend's place who recently invested in a cam. We went online to chat with people, and after a quick "asl" we put our cam on with a girl. It turns out she showed us her bits, but the resolution was too crappy for us to realise that in less than a minute or so.
when i played habbo when i was like 11 i catfished someone (by making up like 50 different people/accounts and using all those accounts at different points) and i felt really bad about it because i thought i was hurting a family of like 50 other people, turned out this girl was doing the same thing to me and she was the same age as me. shortly after, we became best friends. we stopped speaking like 2 years ago when we were 15 but it's still one of the weirdest moments. catfishing is bad dont do it kids.
the msn days were the fucking best
I played Habbo Hotel when I was 11 and once used £3 of my phone credit in order to buy a bed. I can even remember exactly what bed it was, the pink 'cubie' one because I just thought it looked like a cool teenager cabin bed kind of thing. My mum then looked at my phone statement and asked me what the £3 was for and I pretended I didn't know. Lying about that was scary, but less so than telling her I had spent actual money on a pixelated computer game where you could talk to strangers completely uncensored.
Hannah I saw you in sainsburys and cried because I was too in shock to talk to you😭
i didn't use msn or myspace myself because i'm a tad bit too young for that but i remember that the older brothers of my friends always used it haha
love this :D