1. Rushing home from school to talk to the people you already spent all day with.
2. Anxiously waiting for the log-in screen to load so you could check your messages.
3. Creating your own emoticon shortcuts.
4. Spamming your friends with "winks," only to have them block you shortly after.
5. Customising your chat backgrounds to reflect your ~aesthetic~.
6. Asking your crush for their MSN account details, not their number.
7. Shortening everything so that most of your MSN conversations looked like this.
8. Making a Hotmail account with "baby," "angel," "sxc," or "biatch" in the name.
9. ωяιтιηg уσυя мѕη ѕ¢яєєη ηαмє ℓιкє тнιѕ or using these symbols °º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø.
10. Begging your parents for a webcam so you could have a decent display picture.
11. Nudging someone when they didn't instantly reply.
12. Swapping emoticons like these with your friends.
13. Attempting to hide whatever you had been talking about from your parents.
Whenever your parents came into your room when you were on MSN: Space, Enter! Space, Enter! Space, Enter! Space, Enter!
14. Signing in and out of MSN to attract the attention of your crush.
15. Changing your status to appear offline so you no longer had to talk to someone.
16. Playing Minesweeper Flags to pass the time.
17. Mustering up the courage to tell your crush you liked them, only to blame it on your "friend" a second later.
18. Waiting HOURS for a single song to transfer.
19. Spending all evening picking out the perfect playlist to reflect your mood.
#rememberwhen people displayed what they listened to on msn, coz koolkids be like 'my music is who I am, this is my… https://t.co/JqwhWcpbDf
20. Trying to read each other's messages through all the emoticons.
21. And making your relationship official by displaying it in your personal message.
Before Facebook, relationships became official when you wrote the date you got together with a <3 in your MSN personal message. #MsnMemories