Still remember my number, 817598.
Sources of ICQ desktop client by mail.ru
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#72Say what you will about ICQ, but I can still log in with my number and password from the late 90s and see the names of the people I chatted with in high school in my contacts list. This is nothing short of somewhat amazing in the world of software startups and shutterings, etc. FWIW, I've also realized that my Yahoo account from circa 1996 works just as well. my.yahoo.com even remembers what news topics, stocks, weat…
Well, that's because it lives on AOL servers now and was merged with Oscar/etc...
Re: Sources of ICQ desktop client by mail.ru
#73Say what you will about ICQ, but I can still log in with my number and password from the late 90s and see the names of the people I chatted with in high school in my contacts list. This is nothing short of somewhat amazing in the world of software startups and shutterings, etc. FWIW, I've also realized that my Yahoo account from circa 1996 works just as well. my.yahoo.com even remembers what news topics, stocks, weat…
I was going to say you're late to ICQ if you found it in the late 90s, but then I realized I'm still using my yahoo mail account and have no room talk ;-)
When I first used ICQ in 1996 (a buddy introduced it to me) I couldn't figure out who'd be in front of their computer that often. Plus the 90s was still largely on dial-up as well.
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#74and it is gone
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what I remember ICQ was always fairly nerdy and once everyone's non-nerd friends started showing up on AIM they had to make the switch. One thing I miss from ICQ was the ability to have messages stored on the server and delivered next time your friend logged in. None of the popular messaging apps today do that. I also remember that ICQ made a huge mess of their webpage back in the dawn of the dotcom era.
> One thing I miss from ICQ was the ability to have messages stored on the server and delivered next time your friend logged in. None of the popular messaging apps today do that. You mean aside Skype, Facebook messenger, Slack and Whatsapp? And those are just the 4 services I currently (and reluctantly) use. So there's going to be others I've not mentioned.
Weird, FBM gives me the "user is not available" message when they're not online.
Skype for business (AKA Lync) absolutely does not store messages, although I've not used the consumer version.
Re: Sources of ICQ desktop client by mail.ru
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One thing I miss from ICQ was the ability to have messages stored on the server and delivered next time your friend logged in. None of the popular messaging apps today do that. You mean aside Skype, Facebook messenger, Slack and Whatsapp? And those are just the 4 services I currently (and reluctantly) use. So there's going to be others I've not mentioned.
Weird, FBM gives me the "user is not available" message when they're not online. Skype for business (AKA Lync) absolutely does not store messages, although I've not used the consumer version.
> Weird, FBM gives me the "user is not available" message when they're not online.
I used it all the time to send messages to my wife when she's not online; knowing she'll pick it up when she's available. In fact we tend to use it like e-mail in that regard.
> Skype for business (AKA Lync) absolutely does not store messages, although I've not used the consumer version.
Well not storing messages is one of the sales points of Skype for Business; if I recall correctly. Or at the very least encryption for confidentiality (which I know doesn't mean messages can't be stored). But in any case, the regular consumer version of Skype does store messages like I'd suggested. And like with FB Messenger, it's a feature of Skype I use frequently.
Re: Sources of ICQ desktop client by mail.ru
#77Say what you will about ICQ, but I can still log in with my number and password from the late 90s and see the names of the people I chatted with in high school in my contacts list. This is nothing short of somewhat amazing in the world of software startups and shutterings, etc. FWIW, I've also realized that my Yahoo account from circa 1996 works just as well. my.yahoo.com even remembers what news topics, stocks, weat…
I still log in too. If I recall things right the chat logs were stored on the server back in the days. Are they still there? Could they be recovered? That would be awesome...
EDIT: I guess I was wrong... https://www.icq.com/support/icq_7/messages/is_my_message_his...
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fork: https://github.com/fungosforks/icq-desktop
That's a dodgy looking commit, wonder what else is lurking. https://github.com/fungosforks/icq-desktop/commit/eced2373c6...
Hmmm, spammer_copy.py, with "def send_spam()" defined in there. Something's not right.