Goodbye from 6605455.
See ya from 54198743. Weird how I remember this one better than any of my phone numbers
ICQ will stop working from June 26
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#102677808. RIP old friend.
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#104This 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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My wife and I just had a whole conversation about it actually. Amusingly she was not one of the romantic relationships I maintained on ICQ because we were always with each other in person. But both of us had long lasting friendships on ICQ, some of which moved to other platforms, some of which did not.
And I'm still sad 10 minutes later about the relationships that faded when we switched platforms.
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#105And 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).
IIRC GG is in 5th hands now since Łukasz Fołtyn created it
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#106This is a thread to ask: are there any good/working tools to process the old databases from ICQ 99/2000 versions? Maybe even the Mac version? I have some old backups I'm sure have ICQ DBs on them and it would be cool to dump the contents.
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#107All I can say is: "Uh oh!" https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4
Man I gotta say that experience was ruined by the 10 second ad I had to endure ahead of it. I really wish YouTube would just not try to monetize videos that are shorter than the ads.
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#108This 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…
just logged in for the first time in 20 years. actually remembered my ICQ number and password! the contact list didn't seem to survive though
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#1091303789 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.
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I mean it was basically your phone number for chat. I'm sure many people remember their childhood phone number as well.
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#110IRC will never die
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