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> You can chat with friends in VK Messenger and with colleagues in VK WorkSpace
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell no
Even if something new came along now, it won't recreate the magic that was the internet of yesteryear.
At this point, it is us that are too different. The nostalgia only has sentimental value.
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>ICQ was the chat tool of the democratic internet, or internet of the people if you prefer the term. That's IRC.
> That's IRC. IRC is the other one , not the only one. However, Discord is eating its lunch in these days, sadly.
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It's a sensible thing to do, but I have so many ways to get at online services where I can reach them that it hasn't felt pressing - if I'm in a situation where the only phone I can get hold of isn't a smartphone it sounds more like a 999 or nearest consulate kind of situation... But you're right it'd probably be worth doing anyway.
So you get robbed (or something), and you're physically OK but have no phone and no wallet. You find a phone to use, however you do that, and dial the local emergency number (0118 999 881 999 119 725...3), and maybe they show up and take a report. And then they leave. Now, you're in the same situation you were in before (no phone, no wallet) -- nothing has really changed. What happens next? What's your next move?
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It was MSN. I remember when MSN arrived late to the game, and managed to get users anyway, despite not having such an obvious feature, that the incumbent had.
The obvious feature was that ICQ was bloated and MSN wasn't while also MSN coming preinstalled with Windows.
We were on dialup back then. You could only send messages with MSN if the other person was also using the household landline at the same time.
Yeah Microsoft did not exactly play fair back then. Even Apple today is not as anti competitive as Microsoft was.
Also, I don't recall ICQ being bloated. Maybe it was later on.
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…
This reminded me of my Macintosh System 7 days. My CPU was not fast enough to decode MP3s so I convert them to WAVs but my 80MB HDD only had space for about two WAVs at any given time.
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…
I have similar sentimental memories of ICQ. One highlight was being able to connect to it from my phone for the first time; first on my first smartphone (Symbian), then from my "non-smart" Sony Ericsson that succeeded it, via some Java Jabber client and a Jabber-to-ICQ bridge! (Unfortunately nobody else that I knew had it on their phones, so I could only reach people in front of their PCs at home.) On the other hand,…
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discord servers
"servers" I don't think anybody actually cares, but I resent discord for this terminology.
I believe the origin, however, was to help it clearly and directly compete with teamspeak or mumble at the time it launched. You would actually have to invest in some sort of hosted server for your group, so the name made sense as a way to help people visualize how discord worked. It’s definitely a relic at this point though.