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ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

layla5alive wrote: post #122
mindcrime wrote: post #54

Well... I don't know that they ever officially released a protocol spec, but libpurple implements ICQ so at least enough of the protocol was reverse engineered or understood somehow to allow for OSS clients. So I suppose somebody could start from there and build a compatible server. Of course it might wind up only being compatible with Pidgin and other libpurple based clients, and the market for this is probably appr…

1. What has happened to us that 16M people is something we just laugh at as an inconsequential number, wtf. 2. SNR on those 16M people is probably well above average in the vector of most interesting people on the planet.

Not 16M, 16. Very different.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by joshuaissac »

jandrese wrote: post #87

Even though it was mostly just Russians wanting to practice their English last time I used it a couple of decades ago I will miss this service. 9805028 What I really miss is the era when every chat service was on an open protocol so you could have a single app that supported everybody no matter what service they used.

> mostly just Russians wanting to practice their English

I guess that explains their recommendation of VK Messenger as a replacement.

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Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by vidarh »

ta1243 wrote: post #71
epolanski wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

251437659, still remember my number even though I haven't been using ICQ for more than two decades.

Funny how we remember some numbers our entire lives, despite never using them. I can still rattle off my ICQ number, last used nearly 25 years ago, my compuserve ID which I left in 1998, my phone number as a kid, last used about 1994. I also remember various license plates my family had in the mid 90s, but I struggle to remember my own license plate number now. The only two phone numbers I know are mine and my wife's…

When I was 7, my dad wrote a "game" in BASIC on the Commodore 64, and one section required a "secret" (you could see it if you listed the program...) code to gain access. The code was 32744. I have not used that game for more than 40 years, but it'll probably be one of the last things I remember...

> I can still remember my high school's phone number though - for some really odd reason as I can't have phoned it much.

Any chance it was a number your parents made you learn, or on a phone list next to / on the phone?

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by joshuaissac »

olliej wrote: post #138
joshuaissac wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can bypass the phone number login using the link on the top left, and instead login with your ICQ number and password.

yeah, that was my edit but I realize I didn't actually clarify that just what it was doing. But it then will just claim your account has been compromised until you give them a number :D

You can bypass that second screen as well (or at least, it let me do so for my account).
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