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Heh, MSN messenger (back in the day... I don't know how they managed to kill it off) did this notification.

I had a 3rd party client (aMSN) that would popup a chat window as soon as someone would start typing an initial message to me. I would say "Hi" to them first and they would thing it was a big coincidence that they were trying to talk to me at the same time.

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AIM had a similar add-on as well; I recall spooking lots of friends like this and telling them I was a Jedi :P

Pidgin had this too for clients which supported it. It even warned you by displaying: "You feel a disturbance in the force." Good times.

Came here to post exactly that, I really enjoyed that feature back in the days!

Ha! I remember Trillian having the same exact phrasing

It was even funnier when I saw a friend’s sister kept opening up a chat box to see my profile picture without ever saying a word ;)

> I don't know how they managed to kill it off

They kept incrementing the server protocol version without updating the client. Eventually all the clients just stopped being able to connect. Strangely, for a long time, only the version bundled with XP stayed working, until eventually it too could no longer connect.

I heard they kept it alive in China longer. Maybe they updated their client. Maybe.

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