And yet Gadu-Gadu, its Polish clone, is chugging along after its userbase has been decimated by Facebook Messenger (WhatsApp did not take over the market as much as in the other EU countries).
ICQ will stop working from June 26
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#93This 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…
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#94All I can say is: "Uh oh!" https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4
I have the ICQ "Uh OH!" sound in rotation as a text message alert sound for work/support contacts.
It's pretty jarring, as y'all know, so it doesn't do to have as the default sound, but it it's great for important contacts that don't message much.
Honestly it's a bewildering choice for the default "message received" sound of an IM client. It's so very alarming. I can only guess that the makers were expecting you to be a room away from your tower PC (with its deluxe 18" CRT display and mouse cables that required a screwdriver) to make sure you never missed a message.
These days, when you're never more than a layer of fabric away from your IM, it's a bit much. But man, effective.
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#95Good old times playing those games with strangers and exchanging pictures, then after ICQ we used Skype.
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#96All I can say is: "Uh oh!" https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4
Somehow I'm having Worms Armageddon flashbacks
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#971303789 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.
>why do so many people remember
>I suppose it also came at a time for a lot of us where things seemed to wedge into our brains more easily.
That is why recalling phone numbers, large (mentally untoken-able) words, and the digits of PI all are far easier when done in the sing-song fashion - it is utilizing the highly-optimized linguistic/recall portion, we evolved to handle the near-rote-memorization required to allow our culture to survive.
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#98Hasn't it not actually been ICQ for a while now? I thought the original service with the numbers (387175) was shut down and replaced with something else entirely at some point.
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#992476319, got it in 1997 or 1998
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Discord's main "ease of use" features: Centralized user management, centralized server discovery, server hosting What it does technically could be replicated by current technologies. Emojis, video streaming, screen streaming. Discoverability by the masses is a tough problem to solve because there is really no way to monetize it. Does Discord just rely on Nitro subscriptions?
> Discoverability by the masses is a tough problem to solve because there is really no way to monetize it. Does Discord just rely on Nitro subscriptions?
It's a gold mine of data for things like market research, ad targeting/fingerprinting, and more recently AI training.