ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit
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ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit
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#2Apparently my memory is faulty, but I could have sworn I tried to find ICQ 10ish years ago and found it no longer existed. I guess what I likely found was that no one I knew used it anymore. I wonder whether they still have a significant group of dedicated users.
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#3I'm quite frankly amazed ICQ is still alive, I thought it was one of those things that had just died out some time ago.
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#4Apparently my memory is faulty, but I could have sworn I tried to find ICQ 10ish years ago and found it no longer existed. I guess what I likely found was that no one I knew used it anymore. I wonder whether they still have a significant group of dedicated users.
Was a hardcore ICQ user for years until the AOL buyout and subsequent horking of the overall experience. Kept my account but moved to multi-protocal clients such as Pidgin. Glad to see someone still loves it like we all did.
And yes, I still can recite my 7 digit UIN.
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#5I still remember my ICQ number and I haven't used it since 99b.
And looking it up reveals I was stupid enough to fill in my birthday correctly for it, which still displays publicly to this day.
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#6I thought ICQ died off long ago - much like MSN Messenger faded away years ago.
Does anyone still use it?
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#7I still remember my ICQ number and I haven't used it since 99b. And looking it up reveals I was stupid enough to fill in my birthday correctly for it, which still displays publicly to this day.
Yeah, I have a 500K number. I had a friend who was in the low 30Ks.
There was a sense in "pride" when you gave someone your number and they would say "Isn't there meant to be a few more numbers?"
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#8looks like russians trying to resurrect dead smelly app
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#9Around 2000 I got annoyed with the ads and crap in ICQ, so I wrote Miranda ICQ, now called Miranda IM (http://www.miranda-im.org/) based on libicq. One of my main inspirations to write the app was I wanted to connect a chatbot to ICQ to harass my friends, but the standard API wouldn't allow sending messages. So I added a plugin API, connected the MegaHAL chatbot and good times ensued.
I lost interest in Miranda shortly after that, but I'm always impressed that a group has kept it going.
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#10>the forerunner of all messengers
...erm...
IRC? write? talk? CBBS?
No?