HELLO & WELCOME

[John Donovan]

I like to believe that I am not the only one who is fond of the first VoIP service I've used. I seem to take a liking to "firsts" in every aspect of my life: first kiss, first book, even first software used! That being said, I remember the years of 2006-2007, when my family had just gotten Internet. I recall chatting for hours on end with family abroad or with friends over the voice chat provided by Yahoo! Messenger. What a piece of work that was...

What was your first VoIP experience? Did you enjoy it?

[bluegreen]

My first VoIP experience was with Messenger xD (My family also bought the internet services around 2007 xD)
Was the better one those days. Everyone was simply using it and we used to create chat rooms with every user that was online, sometimes we had around 30 people writing on one chat room ahah

[John Donovan]

My first VoIP experience was with Messenger xD (My family also bought the internet services around 2007 xD)
Was the better one those days. Everyone was simply using it and we used to create chat rooms with every user that was online, sometimes we had around 30 people writing on one chat room ahah

Heh, nice to see others starting out the same as I did. :)
I think that Microsoft's Messenger service was more popular in the United States, while I know for sure that Yahoo! Messenger was more popular (or the only one used) in Europe, or at least in Eastern Europe.

[bluegreen]

My first VoIP experience was with Messenger xD (My family also bought the internet services around 2007 xD)
Was the better one those days. Everyone was simply using it and we used to create chat rooms with every user that was online, sometimes we had around 30 people writing on one chat room ahah

Heh, nice to see others starting out the same as I did. :)
I think that Microsoft's Messenger service was more popular in the United States, while I know for sure that Yahoo! Messenger was more popular (or the only one used) in Europe, or at least in Eastern Europe.

xDDDDDDDDDDD The problem is that I am from Western Europe and I didn't know Yahoo! Messenger until 2 days ago when you talked about it :P so, either I was one in a million or maybe it became more popular a few months after I started to use Microsoft's Messenger and I never knew about it because I was using a similar service :P

[SteveAtVoIP2Go]

Hate to admit it, but Skype was the first VoIP platform I used. I only use it for chat these days, but still have a lot of respect for how well it has done over the years.

[bluegreen]

Hate to admit it, but Skype was the first VoIP platform I used. I only use it for chat these days, but still have a lot of respect for how well it has done over the years.

How old are you? (if you don't mind my question :P) Because you must be still a teenager, you are not from my generation :P because Skype it's too recent compared to MSN and Yahoo! Messenger xP

Anyways, if you started with Skype you started with the best one these days!

[WelshPaul]

Voipfone was my first experience using VoIP. :laugh:

[John Donovan]

Hate to admit it, but Skype was the first VoIP platform I used. I only use it for chat these days, but still have a lot of respect for how well it has done over the years.

How old are you? (if you don't mind my question :P) Because you must be still a teenager, you are not from my generation :P because Skype it's too recent compared to MSN and Yahoo! Messenger xP

Anyways, if you started with Skype you started with the best one these days!

I don't think it matters how old he is. All that matters is that he started in an era which is way above what we were using back in the day in regards to quality. I can't wait to teach my children how to use software in the future...

[Voipreneur]

Well the first quality VoIP I used was Skype, but way back on old messengers is when the first time I actually used it, but the quality was rather disappointing! If I recall right, I think I even tested it out a few times on ICQ, makes me feel old! :-o

[sammoats]

The first VOIP that we used was broadvoice I think many moons ago.

[nytegeek]

The first one I remember using was Dialpad. It was one of the first in the industry and they used to offer free pc to phone calls in the USA. They changed massively, and then got swallowed up by Yahoo in 2005. Yahoo introduced Yahoo Voice in place of dialpad and that was the death of it unfortunately.

[fatema]

As you guys all know. I kind of talk about it quite a bit. About how I don't like Skype. I'm sad to say that Skype was my first voip. Hurts me a little saying that really. :x The only ones I like are Tango and Oovoo. I don't even think I knew about it back then. Maybe it wasn't even made? I don't remember that much really. I only remember skyping my cousins like everyday at night. I got to admit though, I liked it back then for some reason. Now, it's not really on my favorites list.

[adssolsn]

My first time encounter with VoIP is when I used Skype. Actually, I never knew Skype was a VoIP service until I joined this forum. However, I am looking forward to try other providers.

[BestGear]

First, was messenger like many....and first "real" voip for me was BTs residential voip that they offered yonks ago...complete with (BT supplied) ATA 186.....

After that, spigate for years, and currently sipgate and voipfone.

[adssolsn]

Skype, as a matter of fact, it’s the only VoIP system I have used so far. Thanks to this forum, I am learning more VoIP systems and hopefully will use some of them. I believe there’s a better option.