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It's amazing how they blew it. I remember, back in the day they were dominant messaging platform. And now they are relic of the past, while WhatsApp was purchased for $19 billions. All of this because they missed mobile revolution.
>the forerunner of all messengers ...erm... IRC? write? talk? CBBS? No?
It's good to see that they eventually added end-to-end encryption.
>the forerunner of all messengers ...erm... IRC? write? talk? CBBS? No?
Around 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 sho…
It seems that Miranda has forked into Miranda IM and Miranda NG, what are your thoughts about those two? Personally, I use Miranda NG because the Facebook plugin worked better in NG last time I compared the two.
In my mid 20's, i'd come back from the pub drunk, login, search for girls online now near me and send them messages. Was usually somebody drunk at the other end, had a few fleeting relationships from that.
Nothing since, including Facebook, has had that same immediacy.
I think I was introduced to ICQ when I started playing Ultima Online. Good times, better internets back then.
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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?"
I had a 5-digit in low 20K at the time. It was stolen because of a weak password on the account. This is how I started my way in cyber security, thanks to the frustration and further research on how that happened.
Same sort of thing happens with low SteamIDs.
>the forerunner of all messengers ...erm... IRC? write? talk? CBBS? No?
Around 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 sho…