What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
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What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
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#2Definitely a forgotten program. Another one from that era (that actually survived until Win 10 I just learned) is the "Briefcase". It was basically a primitive file syncing tool for multiple devices.
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#3No yt videos showing it off?
What I miss was comic chat.
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#4No yt videos showing it off? What I miss was comic chat.
it was dead long before people started doing that
there was a demo cd that had an offline example demo though (msn classic not 2.0)
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#5Rich clients were all the rage back then: Apple eWorld, Compuserve, Pointcast etc.
And then everything swung to the web and then back to rich clients i.e. mobile apps.
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#6https://youtu.be/5DqJwmzG6Fk?t=1133
This video was linked in the article. What a trip down memory lane. This is the most 90's thing that ever existed.
Also, the explanation of what a "right click" is and how it is for "power users". Wow, how far we have come. (This is at 21:50 in the video).
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#7One of the things that came from Microsoft Network that's still around is Expedia. Microsoft needed content to put on MSN and a few engineers got interested in the traveling business. Eventually the experiment turned into a website and then got spun off.
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#8I recall NetWits, a multiplayer 1950s-style quiz show game on MSN where you played as a contestant against other MSN subscribers in real-time (there was a scheduled "broadcast time" every weeknight -- couldn't play at any other time). There were real prizes, like trips from Expedia.
Here's a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyje8xlGc9Q
Truly a product of its time, but they really tried to experiment with multimedia (at least in MSN 2.0). I think there was an online version of Encarta and a bunch of other things that I've since forgotten.
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#10I recall NetWits, a multiplayer 1950s-style quiz show game on MSN where you played as a contestant against other MSN subscribers in real-time (there was a scheduled "broadcast time" every weeknight -- couldn't play at any other time). There were real prizes, like trips from Expedia. Here's a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyje8xlGc9Q Truly a product of its time, but they really tried to experiment with…
That's awesome! I have very fond memories of playing 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live and was sad when they canned it.