ICQ will stop working from June 26 • Hacker News Board

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by wildylion » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:30 PM UTC

midnitewarrior wrote: post #20

uh oh!

I really like it how they were still using exactly this uh-oh sound at least in some McDonald's restaurants in my area :)

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by anta40 » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:30 PM UTC

didip wrote: post #17

Bummer. End of an era for sure. But it's dying even back then 20 years ago.

Really? My impression was 2 decades ago it was pretty popular, at least lots of my high school mates used it.

I never, and eventually picked YM instead few years later.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by vundercind » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:30 PM UTC

jsheard wrote: post #15

Apocryphon wrote: post #5

IRC will never die

Being self-hostable it can never die completely but lets face it, in most communities it's a hollowed out husk of what it used to be since Discord took off.

And yet, it’ll still be around after Discord shuts down.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by ilikehurdles » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:31 PM UTC

tivert wrote: post #12

> ICQ will stop working from June 26 > You can chat with friends in VK Messenger, and with colleagues in VK WorkSpace Was ICQ like Livejournal, where it had a lot more popularity and staying power in Russia than in the West?

Kind of like WhatsApp vs iMessage, ICQ was more international than alternatives like AIM or MSN

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by ssfrr » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:31 PM UTC

1303789

Serious question - why do so many people remember our ICQ numbers? I don’t remember what user-facing function it served. Was that actually the identifier we shared with people to connect?

I suppose it also came at a time for a lot of us where things seemed to wedge into our brains more easily.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by cyberax » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

robin_reala wrote: post #3

I probably won’t install the suggested replacement of VK Messenger, I have to say. No more 71966195.

7106568

How the hell I keep remembering it?!? I haven't used ICQ for more than 15 years?

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

tivert wrote: post #12

> ICQ will stop working from June 26 > You can chat with friends in VK Messenger, and with colleagues in VK WorkSpace Was ICQ like Livejournal, where it had a lot more popularity and staying power in Russia than in the West?

Not from Russia, but pretty close in all senses of the word. It was heavily used in my circles up to about 2010-2011, then started losing market share to other messengers (one¹ of the popular messengers was from the same company that now owns ICQ), and then Telegram came and buried it completely in no time at all.

1: https://agent.mail.ru

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by weinzierl » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #14

This makes me sad. I mean, I haven't logged in in about 20 years now, and couldn't if I wanted to (don't have the password or access to the email address). But I had a low five digit user number, and built a lot of relationships on ICQ (some of which continue today!). It was my main method of electronic communication in college. I had romantic relationships live and die on ICQ. Another reminder of how things change o…

Same for me but the day I will really cry a little will be when mIRC dies. It was my introduction to instant effortless free worldwide communication. Of course I haven't used it for decades but it calms me that it is still very alive.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by Gigablah » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

marban wrote: post #32

490202 signing off

402777 here!

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by cynicalsecurity » Fri, May 24, 2024, 4:33 PM UTC

Finally. It's been an FSB spying frontend for years anyway.