Feed: sizeof(cat)
Title: MSN Messenger on OS X in 2025
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:11:04 +0000
Link: http://sizeof.cat/post/msn-messenger-osx-2025/
 
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Breaking the holiday silence for a short article on how to use your old MSN 
Messenger client to connect to escargot.chat[2]’s infrastructure, using OS X 
(Leopard, maybe even Tiger), regardless of current year: basically you need an 
escargot.chat account, a computer running OS X (doh) and a MSN Messenger client.
 
The account part can be solved for free using the services provided by 
escargot.chat: register for an account on their website[3], make a note of the 
username you selected, and the password, and you’re good to go.
 
Next you’ll need a computer running OS X, preferable PowerPC because why not, 
bonus chic points for PowerBooks or iBooks.
 
Next, you’ll need a MSN Messenger client for OS X, version 3.0 preferably, which
you can download from here[4]. Unsit the archive and install it on your Mac.
 
Now, the old client will still try to connect to Hotmail’s server, which doesn’t
exist since .. 2013 I think, so you need to point the DNS record for 
messenger.hotmail.com to Escargot’s server IP. Open /etc/hosts in your favorite 
editor, add the line below at the end of the file and save it.
143.198.4.104 messenger.hotmail.com
 
That’s it, now you can open MSN Messenger, enter your connection data 
(user@escargot.chat and your password) and enjoy MSN Messenger like it’s 1995, 
or something.
 
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Feel free to add typeofdog@escargot.chat if you want to chit-chat about the 
Tokyo subway sarin attack, the Oklahoma City bombing, how OJ Simpson was found 
not guilty of double murder, or other events that happened this year (1995).
 
Links: 
[1]: http://sizeof.cat/post/msn-messenger-osx-2025/img/msn-messenger.jpg (image)
[2]: https://escargot.chat/ (link)
[3]: https://escargot.chat/register/ (link)
[4]: https://sizeof.cat/files/InstallMessenger3.sit (link)
[5]: http://sizeof.cat/post/msn-messenger-osx-2025/img/screen.png (image)

