Chat service Windows Live Messenger is blowing out the birthday candles: the IM giant is 10. It first launched as MSN Messenger on this very day way back when in 1999, when dial up was common place and Napster was only just rearing its head. Want to know how it’s grown since then? Read on for the stats.
A decade is a long time on the net for any service, especially one that at its core has changed as little as Windows Live Messenger. But the stats show it doesn’t need to: from 2.4million users within 2 months of launch in 1999, Windows Live Messenger is now used by 330million people – a 1,370 percent increase and an astonishing eighteenth of the entire world’s population!
To celebrate the decade anniversary of Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft’s put up a timeline of every major internet and entertainment landmark since its launch and there’s even a party going down in London town, at Potter’s Fields near Tower Bridge, so head on down if you fancy toasting the titan of internet chat. Here’s to ten more years!
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