Trending | We used to MXit up: Quite some time before the now popular social networks, South Africa was connecting on MXit and what a time it was, writes Phumlani S Langa, as he reminisces on simpler times
We used to MXit up: Quite some time before the now popular social networks, South Africa was connecting on MXit and what a time it was.Phumlani S Langa
Message Xchange It offered South Africans a platform from which to chat with each other conveniently and affordably. Those were days filled with waiting for the little dots next to your contacts to go green to indicate that they were now online, and continually hoping for the other person to keep the dot green and stay online.
The origins of MXit lie in the story of a multiplayer cellphone game called Arya. The game was played using SMS, which was costly to many users due to the rates of text messaging. It was released in 2005 and the longer it was around, the more tweaking it underwent, with various updates and new versions.The MXit evolution lasted for a while and, at its height, had around 7.4 million monthly users.
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