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ICQ will stop working from June 26
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Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#22Gadu Gadu, the contemporary clone from Poland, is still up. I don't know if anyone uses it.
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#23This 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…
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Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#24Oh wow, didn't think it was still around!
Don't remember my id number any more, but had great fun using centericq over SSH.
Simpler, better times.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#25IRC will never die
Being self-hostable it can never die completely but lets face it, in most communities it's a hollowed out husk of what it used to be since Discord took off.
My reading (and maybe I'm wrong because the comment was terse) is that IRC will never die, because it is not a commercial interest that can be shuttered. It's an open protocol and anyone can spin up a server.
Any community you build inside a walled garden can be taken from you. I do think that is important to keep in mind.
Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#26I probably won’t install the suggested replacement of VK Messenger, I have to say. No more 71966195.
251437659, still remember my number even though I haven't been using ICQ for more than two decades.
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#29Bummer. End of an era for sure. But it's dying even back then 20 years ago.
I was an ICQ user but I haven't logged in since the early 2000s I would guess? I have a faint recollection of maybe using Trillium during its heyday with ICQ maybe in the 2003-2004 time period?
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#30Goodbye from 7478741