Reposted by Kan Thorne
What I desperately miss about MSN Messenger wasn't being 15, or nudges, or screen names or anything, it was the fact that when you weren't online, you couldn't be messaged, and if you didn't want to make yourself known you could Appear Offline. Oh and no Read Receipts.
Modern DMs are torture.
![4-panel comic. [Person surrounded by glow talking to second person with hair in a bun holding a hoe] (1) PERSON 1: Oh hi! Guess my time machine works. How’s life in the iron age? PERSON 2: Not bad. Developing new kinds of plows. PERSON 1: Cool. PERSON 2: Also my brother was just lost at sea. (2) PERSON 1: I’m sorry. PERSON 2: It’s OK. I think sea navigation is probably impossible. (3) PERSON 1: Oh yeah, you don’t have the compass, right? PERSON 2: The what? PERSON 1: The weird rock that always points north? PERSON 2: What are you *talking* about? (4) PERSON 1: It *does* sound ridiculous when I say it out loud. Anyway, spoilers for the magnetic compass. Sorry. PERSON 2: What’s a spoiler? PERSON 1: ...Spoilers for the concept of a spoiler, too.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihmm6hxi4khyhlyxolzvltg4jzjyzxebwnuckylk6cik54jrpxd3q)
