RIP ICQ
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The last uh has been oh'd
28 is a perfect number of years to shut down after.
I'll see myself out.
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It was still going?!
I just signed up yesterday too.
I feel you. I signed up for a Border's rewards card the day before the company went under
Everyone switch to IRC, quick!
mIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.
As someone who has most of her socialization on IRC now... Eww, mIRC is proprietary and for Windows. Maybe it's just me having learned about IRC only a couple years ago and thus not having a sentimental attachment, but why use it if you have open-source ones like Hexchat, Irssi or Weechat?
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RIP 53215700, the oldest account I’m still aware of that I’ve forgotten the password to. Must have made it in 98 or 99.
86336930 checking in. Pretty sure I remember the password, but it's not like I can check now.
You will be missed, ICQ. When no other messaging service worked, you always did.
2728604 checking in, man i miss those days
22421382 here. I can't believe I still know that number by heart after 20+ years.
Pretty sure mine was 16399753. But, not logged in for probably 15 or more years, so could be wrong.
No idea whatsoever about the password :P
52 million seems high for that timeframe.
I'm not sure how the numbers were doled out, but in 2000 it was a big deal having a sub-9-digit ICQ number.
Maybe I'm off by a bit then. I could have sworn I had one in like the 500k range but it must have been like '97 or '98.
I got on ICQ in 97 or 98 to keep up with friends from a MUD and mine was 7 digits. I haven't logged into it in over a decade because when I went back to see if anyone from the old game was around none ever showed up online.
691948 here.
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Didn't know this was still around, wow.
Technically wasn't. Some Russian company bought the rights and cleared old accounts at some point.
Not sure about the owner, but I was able to sign in and see my profile a few days ago. It was an account from maybe ‘96 or ‘97, and I hadn’t even attempted to sign in in at least 15 years.
Uh oh well
ICQ was my first foray into meeting girls online, back when that was a really weird thing to do.
Post a/s/l to pay respects.
10/f/935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC, 20535
Now I'm no American, but something smells FBIish about that address.
There's a quote that came from ICQ's heyday that I had in mind when I wrote that:
"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and little girls are FBI agents."
"Wow, how cool is it that she's 13 and already works for the FBI! "
What was this from? I know the reference but can't place it. I could obviously search for it but, hey, I'm trying to be social here.
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We need to revise that for Lemmy.
"Lemmy: Where men are men, and men are women, and women are men, and I think we've got a few women who were born women, and also there's a whole bunch of new genders as well, and no genders at all, and that's all cool with most of us."
It's a mouthful and might not read well on a t-shirt, but we can workshop it.
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a/s/l
I knew my first long distance gf on ICQ. I remember also having that service in Miranda IM along Yahoo Chat, MSN, Google Chat (back when it was based on XMPP) and Jabber.
Messages from my current gf are announced with the classic ICQ "Uh-oh!".
19/f/cali
I'm pressing X to doubt.
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24546982
691948
9787393
It's with the aim and yahoo messenger in the clouds now. Good bye Trillian profile I had back in the late 90s, you were too beautiful for this world.
Yes! Trillian was awesome! I used it fairly religiously from the early to mid 00s. Combined my ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, and AIM. I miss that beautiful, convenient piece of software.
Uh-oh!
I still remember my number. It was 7 digits.
4066872, signing off. Thank you and goodbye.
Was 216845. I’m old.
486972 signing off. Godspeed.
I had a buddy in the UK I chatted with on this thing in the early days. We thought we were so cool using it. We were not.
237216938 logging off.
444438969 was a great handle. RIP.
I'm pleasantly surprised the number of replies on Lemmy saying they used this service. It's nice to know that there are some old people on here, like me :)
3100493 😅
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