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Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by TimTheTinker »

RajT88 wrote: post #481
dkga wrote: post #470

I will forever treasure my ICQ memories. The sounds it made. The moving image when it was connecting. Listening in Winamp to one of only a few dozen possible songs that I had carefully downloaded. Being able to randomly connect to people you would filter. Yes, I want to talk to someone more or less my age but in Iceland. Or any other country. But most of all, the feeling of being connected. As a teenager in the autis…

First thought: I had assumed ICQ was long dead. It seemed impossible anything from that era could still be running. IRC is of course, through the grace of an ecosystem, but it is a tiny fraction of what it was. Second thought: how do people randomly connect to talk now? Comments sections mostly? I have long ago stopped seeking new connections of any variety.

> how do people randomly connect to talk now?

Just getting online used to place you in a small enough pool that making connections was easy -- the fact that you were online in the first place gave you something in common.

Any single online platform has far too many users (and spammers, bots, trolls, grifters, etc.) to make it a good place to meet friends.

Maybe IRC would be a good idea.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by donio »

jsheard wrote: post #51
vundercind wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

But would IRC be what a post-Discord exodus actually goes back to? Lacking basic modern amenities like seamless scrollback and push notifications is going to be a hard sell for the generation that grew up with Discord. As a sibling mentioned, Matrix is closer to the mark.

> seamless scrollback and push notifications

Both are doable with modern servers and clients thanks to v3 chathistory. Ergo (server) and Goguma (mobile client) in particular make this work very nicely.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by lxgr »

toast0 wrote: post #467
lxgr wrote: post #410

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was also Meebo, which allowed you to login to all of them via a web interface (which I believe none of the messengers had natively) without installing the respective clients!

AOL had 'AOL Quick Buddy', a Java applet client and later AIM Express that used Adobe Flash. I definitely used quick buddy from computers at my junior college (98-2000), but I don't remember using AIM express.

Ah, I never used AIM directly. Maybe that would have worked with ICQ too, though?

In any case, Meebo worked using the (back then) advanced, exciting magic of AJAX :)

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by cdchn »

bayindirh wrote: post #506
dkga wrote: post #470

I will forever treasure my ICQ memories. The sounds it made. The moving image when it was connecting. Listening in Winamp to one of only a few dozen possible songs that I had carefully downloaded. Being able to randomly connect to people you would filter. Yes, I want to talk to someone more or less my age but in Iceland. Or any other country. But most of all, the feeling of being connected. As a teenager in the autis…

ICQ was the chat tool of the democratic internet, or internet of the people if you prefer the term. After companies started dominating the internet, it was never be the same. We thought that any company would play by our rules, but they poisoned us with their research, gamification, single way information flow, and walled gardens. This is why I moved to small web. I miss the old internet dearly.

I lament the loss of the Old Growth Internet as well, but I feel we can never go home again.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by sourcecodeplz »

dkga wrote: post #470

I will forever treasure my ICQ memories. The sounds it made. The moving image when it was connecting. Listening in Winamp to one of only a few dozen possible songs that I had carefully downloaded. Being able to randomly connect to people you would filter. Yes, I want to talk to someone more or less my age but in Iceland. Or any other country. But most of all, the feeling of being connected. As a teenager in the autis…

ICQ was nice but everyone moved on to Yahoo Messenger. That was the bomb. Truly unbelievable Yahoo didn't capitalize on that. Everyone used it.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by cdchn »

RajT88 wrote: post #481
dkga wrote: post #470

I will forever treasure my ICQ memories. The sounds it made. The moving image when it was connecting. Listening in Winamp to one of only a few dozen possible songs that I had carefully downloaded. Being able to randomly connect to people you would filter. Yes, I want to talk to someone more or less my age but in Iceland. Or any other country. But most of all, the feeling of being connected. As a teenager in the autis…

First thought: I had assumed ICQ was long dead. It seemed impossible anything from that era could still be running. IRC is of course, through the grace of an ecosystem, but it is a tiny fraction of what it was. Second thought: how do people randomly connect to talk now? Comments sections mostly? I have long ago stopped seeking new connections of any variety.

I was under the impression that ICQ turned off when AIM did.,

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by xingped »

bayindirh wrote: post #506
dkga wrote: post #470

I will forever treasure my ICQ memories. The sounds it made. The moving image when it was connecting. Listening in Winamp to one of only a few dozen possible songs that I had carefully downloaded. Being able to randomly connect to people you would filter. Yes, I want to talk to someone more or less my age but in Iceland. Or any other country. But most of all, the feeling of being connected. As a teenager in the autis…

ICQ was the chat tool of the democratic internet, or internet of the people if you prefer the term. After companies started dominating the internet, it was never be the same. We thought that any company would play by our rules, but they poisoned us with their research, gamification, single way information flow, and walled gardens. This is why I moved to small web. I miss the old internet dearly.

Can you share more on what you mean by moving to the small web?

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by incompatible »

bayindirh wrote: post #506
dkga wrote: post #470

I will forever treasure my ICQ memories. The sounds it made. The moving image when it was connecting. Listening in Winamp to one of only a few dozen possible songs that I had carefully downloaded. Being able to randomly connect to people you would filter. Yes, I want to talk to someone more or less my age but in Iceland. Or any other country. But most of all, the feeling of being connected. As a teenager in the autis…

ICQ was the chat tool of the democratic internet, or internet of the people if you prefer the term. After companies started dominating the internet, it was never be the same. We thought that any company would play by our rules, but they poisoned us with their research, gamification, single way information flow, and walled gardens. This is why I moved to small web. I miss the old internet dearly.

It was commercial, wasn't it? And only worked on Windows? IRC was the open alternative.
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