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MSN Messenger was how a generation of British teenagers spent their evenings: signing in the second they got home, nudging friends, agonising over a song lyric screen name. Launched in 1999, it peaked at over 300 million users before smartphones and Facebook chat ate it. Microsoft retired it in 2013, folding everyone into Skype — it no longer exists, but the sign-in sound still triggers something. The odd part: it outlived itself. Messenger went dark everywhere in 2013 except mainland China, where it was left running for another year and a half.

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MSN Messenger was how a generation of British teenagers spent their evenings: signing in the second they got home, nudging friends, agonising over a song lyric screen name. Launched in 1999, it peaked at over 300 million users before smartphones and Facebook chat ate it. Microsoft retired it in 2013, folding everyone into Skype — it no longer exists, but the sign-in sound still triggers something. The odd part: it outlived itself. Messenger went dark everywhere in 2013 except mainland China, where it was left running for another year and a half.