ICQ will stop working from June 26 • Hacker News Board

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by danielbln » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:11 PM UTC

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.

16, not 16M.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by kubatyszko » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:11 PM UTC

The last bastion of the old Internet, end of an era!

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by agumonkey » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

I wonder how many machine operates it and if there's a GDPR 'backup your data' feature hehe

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by huxflux » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #119

Apocryphon wrote: post #5

IRC will never die

A few weeks ago I shut down my self hosted znc bouncer that I still logged in every few weeks to download logs, see if I got pinged somewhere and catch up with some low traffic channels. I then switched over to https://www.irccloud.com and it's such a improvement as I can use it on my phone, now I'm pretty active again and I kinda missed it.

Are there any self-hosted alternatives?

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by agumonkey » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #14

This 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…

Hard to realise how cultural waves come and go. Humbling

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by linearrust » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

debo_ wrote: post #77

All I can say is: "Uh oh!" https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4

You beat me to it. As soon as I read the title, I heard it in my mind.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by devin » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

Uh oh!

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Post by lastdong » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

I think after IRC, there was ICQ and MSN. On ICQ, you had a number. ICQ was great. I have fond memories of the spinning flower.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by asternfern » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

116633 Good times!

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by s0rce » Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

ssfrr wrote: post #45

1303789 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.

I remember mine, 15254346. Good question...