mIRC, ICQ versus MSN

Have any of you miss the days of the mIRC chat room and ICQ?Well these things came across my mind one morning when i woke up..it was not from my dreams and how on earth did it cross my mind..i did not know either =_='''

Since i thought of it for a second i actually miss using them. I was introduced to mIRC when i was 13. My brother was at college so he was quite a frequent user of mIRC. What i often saw during that time was his evil smile, random laughing in front of a black screen..i was thinking what the hell....why his computer broke down already and he still could laugh =S Oh no did mom put too much pressure on him? Okay i didn't know la DO NOT LAUGH at me..i saw black screen i thought it's like those Microsoft thingie that popped out when your computer is dead omg what an idiot!!! I walked near his computer and asked him 'eh what's that..something wrong with your computer?' Then i found it it was actually a chatroom..interesting...the most interesting part is you fake every single detail in IRC..if you are honest enough to give the correct age and location or school..then you are certainly not the random chat room person. We do not make friends in chat room..it is totally a random chat..you might not even chat with the same person after once. But i kind of agree it was quite fun though!

Couple of months later my friends asked me to joined ICQ. Say goodbye to mIRC they said. Why wanna chat with random people when you can chat with your own friends plus mIRc already out-dated and so i switched to ICQ. All you need is your friend's UIN (i can remember mine till now..ya i do not have anything better to do =p) and you can start chatting. It is still somthing similar to MSN today...i would say ICQ is the sifu of MSN but obviously the sifu is getting old already..no video and audio conversation...no sharing/sending files and pictures..no emoticons..cannot send message but just pressing 'ENTER' !!!

A few more things about ICQ is we only use nicknames..unlike MSN which most people use their real names. My nickname on ICQ was B*Sweet (wtf!!!!) I could not come out with a better name so i asked one of my friends to help me with the nickname....yea he's obviously not my friend coz B*Sweet sound horrible T_______T But but but i still use it for my character in Maple Story wtf! (Speaking of Maple Story i was a level 44 cleric damn proud but i gave up hitting mushrooms to level-up =p) Back to ICQ...remember we can send our contact lists to our friends so they can add all our friends..i know it's stupid but i did that hahaha..i always asked my friend to send theirs to me..aiyoooo why am i so spastic last time!!!! Remember the IRC and ICQ language? When you first chat with someone..u go 'a/s/l pls' or 'mind to intro?'...hahaha i laughed like mad when i came to think of that. 'a/s/l' means age/sex/location but it has become the language on ICQ that everyone just went a/s/l for the first line of conversation. The authentic message alert of ICQ (remember remember??), how we send message by pressing 'SHIFT+ ENTER' or 'CTRL+ENTER' i cannot remember anymore...these are really stuffs of ICQ that has already became history in our lives. I miss using them these days......

And so today everyone is using MSN and i wonder how long people are going to use it before another new software is introduced to replace it ^^

Note: The message alert of MSN irritates me so much that i have to switch to busy mode EVERYTIME i'm online. Can they change it to something nicer???!!! Perhaps they can make it so everyone has their own signature alert like ringtones...mine will definitely be something related to JAY CHOU. 'Hello da jia hao wo shi zhou jie lun!' (Translated: Hello everyone i'm Jay Chou!) See Jay is looking for me through MSN...lalalalalalala..BOO!