MSN Groups was a website part of the MSN network which hosted online communities, and which contained Web pages, hosted images, and contained a message board. MSN Groups was shut down on February 21, 2009 as part of a migration of online applications and services to the Windows Live brand, and later renovated as Windows Live Groups.
Since 1991 there were various communities on MSN, all run by MSN, featuring real newsgroups and IRC chat rooms. The...
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MSN Groups was a website part of the MSN network which hosted online communities, and which contained Web pages, hosted images, and contained a message board. MSN Groups was shut down on February 21, 2009 as part of a migration of online applications and services to the Windows Live brand, and later renovated as Windows Live Groups.
Since 1991 there were various communities on MSN, all run by MSN, featuring real newsgroups and IRC chat rooms. They were not easily updatable as only MSN Communities staff members could update the one page that each "community" had. There was one for every generic interest. Around 1998-9, MSN created the home pages, which were real Web sites much like Tripod or Geocities. These had no message boards or chat rooms attached. MSN did away with these home pages around 2001-2, not too long after they introduced the Custom Pages and File cab (later referred to as Documents) in MSN Communities, which were later called Groups.
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