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ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by sorenjan »

richarme wrote: post #322

Good memories from a more innocent time. The ICQ client truncated long filenames in the UI, so you could send "image.jpg (50 spaces) .exe" which would open an embedded picture and install a back-door while just seeming like regular picture. I do miss casually texting with people on the computer rather than the phone, and I don't think it's only due to nostalgia or having more leisure time back then: - If someone was…

I only use the phone to send messages when I'm not at home, otherwise I use the computer. One of the best things about Telegram is their good desktop client, they even have online indicators like ICQ.

This was true for ICQ as well, in a way. I used some java app on my Sony Ericsson phone back in the day to read and send ICQ messages, but of course back then you had to connect to the internet explicitly, phones weren't always online so it was of limited use but still cool.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by kinow »

larodi wrote: post #116
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…

4125222 I still remember it but not the pass

You should keep trying. Looks like your account was not deleted, but check if the name/description matches what you had the last you remember - https://icq.im/4125222/en

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by 101008 »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #436
0xedd wrote: post #399

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Get a dumb phone or a Linux phone. Stop complaining. Be an example.

Or just don't take your phone out? I always read these threads and think that the folks here probably have issues disconnecting and so they're longing for a world where social pressures forced disconnection. I still frequently don't check my socials until after work or after a long social activity. I'm upfront with my contacts about that too, and most of my friends are like me. I only monitor my phone constantly if I…

I am not complaining about myself, but how society behaves. Yes I can do it, but it doesn't mean the rest will follow me.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by kinow »

silisili wrote: post #193
verst wrote: post #178

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219431446 was me :D. No idea why I still remember that.

22861316 Tried to login a few years back to see if any of my old Quake buddies happened to still use it, but couldn't. Support said unless I had the recovery email still, which was at bigfoot.com which has been dead for decades, I was out of luck.

Interesting, I managed to open the other IDs I found here, but yours gives me a very broken web page: https://icq.im/22861316/en

I wonder if you had some ASCII characters, or those old custom-font-and-special-characters texts we used to use?

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by hoyd »

101008 wrote: post #290
jmbwell wrote: post #251

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Being reachable only from a PC at home… man. Now that I miss. The whole lifestyle of having a clear distinction between being at the computer and not. Status messages for a time when “away” was a state of being you ever were . Coming back to see whether your crush had messaged you. Simpler times for sure. Before we even had “wi-fi!”

I started writing an essay about this topic. I am one of those nostalgics by the old internet. I thought it was the aesthetic (geocities, etc), but after giving it a lot of thought, that wasn't. It was that your life (all of us) was "offline by default". We lived offline and then we connect to the internet for a few minutes, hours, whatever. But you lived your life offline. We attended concerts, took photos, recorded…

Is the essay somewhere online?

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by jraph »

nogridbag wrote: post #432
fragmede wrote: post #387

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you reminded me that we used to pay for Internet access by the hour. You'd pay $X for one hour of Internet use, so you'd go online, do a thing and then disconnect to save money. local vs remote for email was such a different time. you'd have a fat client on your laptop, and you'd do a bunch of writing offline, before connecting, having the program sync, and then disconnect. how times have changed!

I still feel bad I left my parents' computer online all night to download a .wav (?) audio file of Mario jumping from Nintendo.com. Back then, the closest most kids got to Nintendo was via video game magazines. So going to Nintendo.com for the first time and downloading an audio file was a special moment. The download was taking hours and I have no idea how much it cost my parents. I just remember being so disappoint…

Wait, it didn't take an entire night to download a 1 sec wav (assuming the worst) file, did it?

1 sec of wav would be 176.4 kB (assuming 44.1 kHz, 16 bits, stereo), or 176.4 * 1024 * 8 bits. That divided by 28800 bits/s (assuming a 28k modem) gives 50.1 seconds.

A 96 kHz 32 bit stereo wav would be 768 kB, 4-5 times that so still less than 5 minutes.

What am I missing?

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by kinow »

calmworm wrote: post #263
larodi wrote: post #116

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4125222 I still remember it but not the pass

666260 Had it for many years then someone “hacked it” and took it. That was the end of it for me.

Looks like your account has been deleted too https://icq.im/666260/en

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by kinow »

int_19h wrote: post #296
larodi wrote: post #116

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4125222 I still remember it but not the pass

141571088 I find it amusing that I still remember this right off the bat despite not having used it for 15 years, but I don't remember my phone number from the same time period.

Looks like this account has been deleted https://icq.im/141571088/en

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by jaredhallen »

larodi wrote: post #116
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…

4125222 I still remember it but not the pass

Sounds like we signed up about the same time. 4051543.
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