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Early internet chat technology praised alongside MSN Messenger as peak social technology before constant connectivity became expected.

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"As a millennial with a father who was into computers, I got into it pretty early. I missed the newsgroup stages but got into the IRC, ICQ, myspace, php-forums kind of phase."
"We had peak novelty and functions with those 2, you got home from school or work and could chat with your friends all you wanted. If somehow you were not in range of your computer, people accepted that, and you were not expected to reply 5 minutes after receiving a message."
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