Haven't touched it in over 20 years, and kind of surprised ICQ was even still around, but so many memories from the '90s. Good night, sweet prince.
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ICQ will stop working from June 26
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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.
Isn't mIRC just a client for IRC (a standard), but ICQ is centralized? Or are there some "mIRC"-branded servers out there that run popular IRC channels?
Yes, yes, just a client, but for me it was the first interface to whole new world, so I will never forget it.
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#263This 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…
4125222 I still remember it but not the pass
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Had it for many years then someone “hacked it” and took it. That was the end of it for me.
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#264My brain doesn't remember much, but i remember my handle; 376930 - from those early days of whining modems and the sheer excitement of talking to people from all over the world. As a kid it opened up my entire world.
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#2651303789 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.
831364 but suffered an account takeover. ICQ shutting down mildly eases this long torment of losing the 6-digit account.
Happened to me too.
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Terrible, terrible news. So many events in my life are linked to ICQ...
Do we have a chance to save it?
Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have similar sentimental memories of ICQ. One highlight was being able to connect to it from my phone for the first time; first on my first smartphone (Symbian), then from my "non-smart" Sony Ericsson that succeeded it, via some Java Jabber client and a Jabber-to-ICQ bridge! (Unfortunately nobody else that I knew had it on their phones, so I could only reach people in front of their PCs at home.) On the other hand,…
> didn't support offline messages ICQ did support offline messages, from the beginning afaik, too. I had a 6-digit uin (485358 or something similar), until it got banned for running a bot (whoops). To the sibling reply, I think AIM and ICQ did have interop on messages at some point, it was much later than when ICQ moved protocols to OSCAR and TOK though.
Oh, did I mix it up with MSN then, or maybe early Skype? Or did this possibly happen after the OSCAR migration?
I vividly remember being amazed by offline delivery in Jabber, so at least one of ICQ or MSN must have not had it for me to even notice.
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I remember the music/sound when ICQ used to load up. The logo was brilliant. Nostalgia. Circa 1999-2001 when I used it heavily. Best part though: finding strangers and becoming online friends with many of them (without worrying about scams etc).
I certainly ran into scammers on ICQ.
Which year ?
Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#269My first thought upon reading this was just to wonder if my account is still somehow active.
I have fond memories of using it, but the end of ICQ doesn't hit me nearly as hard as the end of Geocities did.
Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't mIRC just a client for IRC (a standard), but ICQ is centralized? Or are there some "mIRC"-branded servers out there that run popular IRC channels?
Yes, yes, just a client, but for me it was the first interface to whole new world, so I will never forget it.
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