Yes most people used ICQ and then MSN Messenger became popular by the mid-2000s onward.

Poor developing country in Asia, late 1990s-early 2000s. Yes we had AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger. The latter two were far more popular than AIM though.

This map is not even close to reality because it assumes that the fictitious finance capital of the Global North is the same as the industrial, real sector output of the Global South economy.

When you factor in the fact that Global South workers contribute 90-91% of the labor that powers the world economy, but receive only 21% of the global GDP, the re-distribution is going to be even more dramatic, where the Global North countries will actually lose their wealth in much larger magnitudes than is implied in the maps here.

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