It was the find random user that I used back in the day.
ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit
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#427285081 - I still remember it 20 years later. I think I was introduced to ICQ when I started playing Ultima Online. Good times, better internets back then.
Ultima Online was the best mmo I've ever played. So much flexibility and ... well it was really impossible to onboard without extensive help from everyone else on the server.
Which made it even better. Met a lot of cool people that way.
I remember one time I was playing as a girl and got somebody to "marry" me so they'd give me free stuff. Got a loooot of free stuff by being a girl on UO.
Good times.
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#43Everybody is missing the elephant in the room with ICQ, which is why it was popular: 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.
You are perhaps not aware of Grindr.
Forgive me if this is incredibly ignorant, but I thought this was targeted at the gay community?
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#44My ICQ UID is 15584496 . I still remember people buying less-digits or easy-to-remember digits accounts for real money.
Gosh, I just logged in. Kudos for not auto-deleting my account for so many years.
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#45It'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.
A 4 person team getting $400 million after a few years is "blowing it"?
From my perspective the "they" being referenced is AOL.
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#46Did anyone else used to "hack" people on ICQ? If I recall correctly, ICQ would expose users IP address if they didn't intentionally hide it. My friend and I would get to chatting with strangers and then exchange photos... Only ours wasn't a photo, it was something that opened a backdoor into their computer that would allow us to take over their PC. We never did anything harmful but might have gotten a few people in t…
Sounds like SubSeven.
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#47Re: ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit
#487285081 - I still remember it 20 years later. I think I was introduced to ICQ when I started playing Ultima Online. Good times, better internets back then.
209xxxx uo player as well with primary use coming from that. Later on a little Diablo 1 and few others as well.
Good times!
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#49The sad reality is that ICQ was more functional and cross platform than IM are on skype 20 years later...
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#50My ICQ UID is 15584496 . I still remember people buying less-digits or easy-to-remember digits accounts for real money. Gosh, I just logged in. Kudos for not auto-deleting my account for so many years.
163766. Had tons of people asking to buy it. Too bad I can't even log in since it's tied to my email address from 4th or 5th grade.
I think the numbers started at 100000.
Prior to that, elementary school, I used PowWow and Mplayer to socialize with pretty much only Californians.. since everyone on the internet back then lived in CA. That was a weird time. I of course was 18 for.. oh, 10 years.
I believe I've met 2-3 people with lower numbers than mine.
edit: Wow, just signed in, been awhile. None of my friends online and the web app doesn't tell you their last time online. Not sure if the desktop apps still do.