You've got mail! - Viagra for 43 percent off! "WTF!"

I'm sure that most of my viewers have at least one email account, so you're probably familiar with viagra or (insert meds) for "growing your member" or just plain weird stuff that comes in your Inbox during the day. For the most part now, email services have advanced to the point of sending all that fun stuff to your junk folder, but I still remember when that garbage was hitting hard and there wasn't much that could be done about it. I still remember when I had to manually turn on the spam filter for my yahoo account, it was back when one only had around 25MB of space or so for your inbox. Anyone else remember those days?

I eventually got an invite to Gmail back in late 2004, and absolutely loved it. It automatically filtered out the crappy spam emails!  It was a nice change of pace using that since I've been using yahoo mail 3 years prior to that coming out. Looking back, I don't know how I could have gone without those ever-so-useful spamfilters that both email services use now.

Chatting and so on

As someone who's used various internet chat mediums over the years, I've found that I prefer using MSN messenger once in a while, while I use IRC for pretty much everything else. Here's what I've used over the years-

• AIM - My very first chat client dating back to early 2004. Haven't had much use for it for the past few years from all the changes that were made to the interface
• Yahoo Instant Messenger (now Y!) - My second one that I really don't use anymore. This is how I discovered voice chat back in 2004. On a 33.6kpbs modem. (yes, it was painful and full of static). Don't use this one that much anymore
• ICQ - I briefly used this one, and it just seemed..."meh"
• IRC - Internet Relay Chat. I've been using this one since late 2004 and I got hooked over how public chat is so useful for stuff. I could go into the various clients for IRC, but that's best for a different article
• MSN Messenger (Now Live Messenger) - I've really took to a liking to this one back then and I've consistantly used this one since then and well, I just like it lol.
• Teamspeak - I've used it a few times and I didn't feel that it was that special
• Skype - Voice chat on a grand scale. If it weren't for my horrid connection, I'd use it more

That's pretty much it for this one tonight. If anyone wants to chat me up, they can use IRC and point their server connection to irc.tsukihi.me and join #blogspot
There's also the option of going to mibbit.com and select TsukiIRC from the server list, choose a nickname, and use #blogspot for the channel name. AJAX for easy connections, ne?