uh-ow!
ICQ will stop working from June 26
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#632everyone knows ICQ comes from "I seek you" right?
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#633The status change and signaling by ICQ is something I wish other instant messaging did more.
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#634101919 here. My account got hacked in 1999 and so it's been 25 years since I've been able to login, and yet I remember my UIN the way most people remember their first phone number. My friend at the time, 101449 was in the first 1500 users; I was late to the game and joined later that afternoon. I met three people by randomly searching by criteria who are still friends to this day. Erin from Niagara Falls was the firs…
Took me a while to recall mine, but 13427018.
Saying the number now it just rolls off my tongue, it is just so familiar, great times.
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#635My PIN for most of my devices is my ICQ number from decades ago.
Sad to hear it's shutting down, but I didn't even know it still existed.
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#636This 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…
I just logged in for the first time in over 25 years a few weeks ago. I found https://web.icq.com/ which does not require an email address: only the ID and password. And back then I used a single password for everything. And it worked! All my old online friends from my childhood were there, my profile message, etc. While most were offline, a few showed up as online and I quickly messaged them! But my excitement died…
For at least the last fifteen years I've believed my ICQ account was lost forever, however seeing your post now I decided one last time to try logging in by guessing the password. And it worked!! I can see my old friends list! What a weirdly uplifting feeling!
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#637This 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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Pretty long but with cool number in it. I thought I forgot a password but looks like my account was deleted, although it still has funny description typical for a young boy.
Friendship started and ended entirely in icq, relationship, whole other things. It was the era for me for sure
ICQ was popular in russian speaking countries in 2006-2009 years, there even was application generator for mobile phones: you was able to choose emoji, styling and other things and receive link to download unique build for your J2ME phone. In the era of WAP it was really impressive
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#638Funny how ICQ drained people from IRC back then, but IRC is still there while ICQ will be forgotten.
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#639When my best friend took his live in 2007, I backed up our whole ICQ chat history. Nearly 350000 messages. From time to time I read parts of our texts and it instantly brings me back to our teenage years. We shared everything via ICQ, it reads like a detailed log of our friendship.
Thank you for preserving these memories, ICQ.
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#640As a 5-digit user - uh oh!