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About 3 years ago, my 6-digit ICQ number got hijacked without any way of getting it back (I had created it with a geocities.com email address). That was when I stopped using it.
Also, none of my buddies complained about getting weird messages from that account. Was that the case with your account?
About 3 years ago, my 6-digit ICQ number got hijacked without any way of getting it back (I had created it with a geocities.com email address). That was when I stopped using it.
Funny. Maybe about two years ago, I could not login to my "first" ICQ account either. Never knew why that happened. Also, none of my buddies complained about getting weird messages from that account. Was that the case with your account?
Upon which they called me to ask if I was pretending to be russian.
I think it was a combination of things. If I remember correctly, AIM was an AOL subscription exclusive in the beginning so only the dopes on there were using it. The cool kids were on ICQ and I think there were very few AOL users willing or able to use a separate chat client. Anyway, AOL eventually opened up AIM to everyone and people started using it. It was easier. AIM used screennames. ICQ was cool because you cou…
I know why you remember that. Because you have a "eight" digit ICQ number. People at that time used to think that shorter ICQ ID was cooler.
The numbers.