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Well, on this side of the fence it pretty much still works as OP described. Nothing has changed and you don't even need to be drunk!
Difference is, the gay community (or some subset of it that I don't know the size of) has always had it's quick hook up methods.
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>6) C core-code is written in old-school style and I liked that; How "old-school" are we talking? Like K&R-C style or what?
K&R C must surely be too old. It was starting to be old in the early 90s, and I think Linux and GNU where quite progressive in the days. But, hum hum, What is considered non-old-school really modern C? Are there any new non-trivial C programs or systems anymore? I look at the Linux kernel and some drivers occasionally, and possibly do some changes in some drivers and tools related to DVB and media, but I never look a…
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I think ICQ (along with non-technical IRC) took a gut punch when Microsoft bundled MSN Messenger with Windows XP. Almost over night people were switching to (or adopting) MSNM, often reproducing online the cliques already existing in the local communities.
Are you Canadian by any chance? MSN only ever really seemed to take off in some specific regions, one of which was Canada. After ICQ, almost all my American contacts moved to AIM. Which was honestly pretty awful, since MSNM was much nicer.
I think AIM was only ever popular in the US (America On Line after all).
The interesting period was when IRC was still popular even among non-techies. The girls in school would sit on the PCs in mIRC.
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.
This was so long ago I remember running a ICQ J2ME app on a 2G GSM phone
I met my wife through ICQ. Life changing tech. :)
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The early Trillian ~0.72; that one I really loved; I found Miranda later, so that I never really used. A while ago I digged around in my computer and collected _all_ the chat logs I was able to find: Trillian, MSN, Pidgin, Empathy, Thunderbird, XChat, Facebook, and normalized them to plain text. They were in all sorts of formats: line-by-line XML, JSON, per file JSON, per file XML, text, HTML. (I had to exclude Skype…
Most versions of Skype use SQLite for local storage, if that is of any help!
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I think ICQ (along with non-technical IRC) took a gut punch when Microsoft bundled MSN Messenger with Windows XP. Almost over night people were switching to (or adopting) MSNM, often reproducing online the cliques already existing in the local communities.
Are you Canadian by any chance? MSN only ever really seemed to take off in some specific regions, one of which was Canada. After ICQ, almost all my American contacts moved to AIM. Which was honestly pretty awful, since MSNM was much nicer.
The craziest thing about all of this, is that my number 7672xxx still works! Every few years I download the client, and my username and password from the late 90s is still valid. This is no small feat in the age of shutdowns and spin-offs. In other news, WebRings still exists as well.
Everybody 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.