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NDlurker 4 hours ago

I wanted to do this so bad back in like 2009. I archived MSN messenger chats and my texts and everything and I figured sometime in the future I'd be able to analyze them and maybe even train a chat bot to imitate me. But over the years I lost hard drives and cell phones and accidentally deleted stuff and yeah it didn't happen. Very cool this guy was able to do it

Nition 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I used to have saving turned on for my MSN Messenger chats back around 2001-2004. I didn't lose them. 10-15 years later or so I had a look through them and the cringe was so powerful that I deleted them all anyway.

johntash 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sometimes I feel bad that I lost years of chat history from then too, but you made me realize that might be a good thing.

hackboyfly an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This made me laugh out loud.

retired 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I came across a binder full of short stories I wrote as a little kid, and various homework assignments.

Nope, that thing went straight into the shredder after reading the first page.

jasonfarnon 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I logged with AIM which was a pain, at least for the late 90s version I was using, bc you had to save each chat manually. Then a Kramer-like friend wandered over when I wasn't home, got on my computer, came across the saved chats, and deleted them all. I did this kind of self-logging for the same reasons as this poster but it really turned off friends, who thought it was about keeping a file on them.

freehorse an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I have my msn logs along with a lot of old stuff in an ecrypted hard drive with a password I have forgotten. I am waiting for divine enlightment to remember the password, or quantum computers to finally come.

Weirdly glad to hear I am not the only one effectively having lost them.

marak830 an hour ago | parent [-]

Well if it's bitlocker encrypted I have some good news (potentially) Yellowkey (CVE-2026-45585) is able to bypass it.