ICQ will stop working on June 26. It’s encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.
I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn’t know anything of it still remained.
I met my wife on ICQ. I had random chat turned on and she said, “Hello.” That was a long time ago
I met your wife there too.
So what?
We all did.
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She told me she talked to a guy who just wanted to talk about WoW and his favourite Linux distro. She gave up when he didn’t make a move and decided to look for a real man. Was that you?
My standard reply was “hailing frequencies open.” Needless to say it was the opening line that let multiple women know that I was single. Surprisingly it had a 100% success rate. I was the best nerd.
Did that line get you laid a lot?
The data is conflicting. I think they had already made up their mind on that topic before messaging me. My reply just reinforced their decision. It’s hard to separate causation and correlation in that case.
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ICQ was still online!?!?!
I stopped using that shit like 25 years ago. Thought died in the late 90’s
Same. Wow
Russians kept using it, just like Brazilians kept Orkut alive for years.
Two wtf here.
One, icq was still online? I stopped using that one aim got popular and everyone had it.
And two, vk owns icq??
VK bought it when it became completely irrelevant/
Effective way for the GRU to trade info whilst overseas?
I don’t think even GRU is that stupid.
18434 Will never forget it. So many good memories there
1817807, here. Yours may be the smallest number I’ve ever seen.
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This is mildly upsetting because I remember ICQ is where I first met a seer who I was referred to by someone else. This was back when I was looking for help regarding a number of strange dreams and spirit visitations I was dealing with.
Should have been looking for a therapist (that said, I’ve done my deal of blabbering about occult stuff back then too)
TIL: ICQ was still around
How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don’t remember what I did last week half the time.
I used mine in my mail signature for a while and I’ve kept all my emails since late 90s.
Fair. My current mail signature has a dead link in it and I can’t be bothered to do anything about it.
What’s with your pride in being complacent?
What are you talking about?
“I can’t be bothered to update my signature” - you could fix it in half the time it takes to post here. It’s just a weird… I’d say flex, but it’s the opposite. It’s like a sag or deflation.
I could, but I don’t feel like it. Why do you care?
For the same reasons you do not care.
ICQ was still around? I thought it died ages ago!
It had. This thing only has branding in common. A different protocol, a different set of features (no contact directory), and while they had the old database of everything, they deemed a good idea to not preserve it, so old UINs don’t exist.
That’s a shame, I still remember mine. Weird how you can remember 7 random digits from 30 years ago…
Hell I still remember my Nintendo Power membership number.
Meanwhile IRC and Usenet are still doing fine.
