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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 RulerOf »

asddubs wrote: post #486
RajT88 wrote: post #481

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

discord servers

"servers"

I don't think anybody actually cares, but I resent discord for this terminology.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

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…

Wasn't icq the client where to send messages, you had to use alt+i? That alone was the worst possible ux choice for a chat client

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

#593

Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

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.

Whatsapp in non US world

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by CarRamrod »

cdchn wrote: post #524
bayindirh wrote: post #506

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>the Old Growth Internet

Nicely coined.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #526
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.

Pretty sure everyone went to msn mainly because you could use any image as emoji. Then the nightmare of one emoji per letter begun

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by hypercube33 »

badsectoracula wrote: post #552
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…

> when people all of a sudden switched to a worse alternative, MSN MSN wasn't a worse alternative to ICQ, MSN was faster and came with Windows, making it both easier to keep running at the background on the weak hardware of the time (i remember launching ICQ and waiting waiting waiting at the splash screen with the rotating petal colors and then the main UI was a mess of buttons, icons and all sorts of bloat) and it…

At some point I had MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and irc and pidgn came to save me.

There were also cool places to hang out like Yahoo Games or a few of the location based chat apps that were fun to connect to strangers and just chat.

Discord is so walled garden it's awful in this respect.

I also miss the VRML world builders like CyberTown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTown

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by hluska »

wormius wrote: post #540
xingped wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Google is your friend: https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/ https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/ https://blog.kagi.com/small-web Another related term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndieWeb see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) (NOT web, but similar in spirit - an extended "Gopher"-like protocol)

Why not just answer a question without the “Google is your friend” crap? That’s rude and we’re better than that.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by netsharc »

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.

This new (and to be euthanised) ICQ isn't the one with the numeric username. Out of curiosity I did (re-)register a few years ago, IIRC it used the user's phone number as the username.

Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26

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Post by kazinator »

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.

> ICQ was the chat tool of the democratic internet

It was proprietary client software released in 1996 and bought by AOL two years later.

It relies on a service operated by a single party, which is now sunsetting it.

According to the Wikipedia article, when ICQ was under AOL's stewardship, "AOL pursued an aggressive policy regarding alternative ("unauthorized") ICQ clients."

The article details all the tactics that AOL implemented in the service to break unofficial clients.

I don't see where the word "democratic" connects with ICQ.

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