random dentwhat was your first social network?
(plz boost for sample size) 
bbs/fidonet
usenet/mailing lists
irc
myspace
fb/tw/ig & later
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Greg Harvey ๐@randomdent I put Myspace, but it was probably really ICQ. Apparently it's still going!? ๐คฏ
grahamsz@greg_harvey @randomdent Is it really!?
I still know my ICQ #
@grahamsz @randomdent Heh, I found mine in a keepass database and tried it, but the login didn't work any more and I think the password reset email was my old university one, which won't have worked since 1999, so that was that. ๐
evilmiera
Logan@randomdent @greg_harvey @grahamsz I was alive for BBS and maybe posted a few things but I feel like that shouldnโt count.
Perhaps thatโs why ICQ excluded? I remember it being more of a Messenger and not a Network.
Whatโs the difference?
A network allows for people to create and share content publicly within the network. ๐ค
@llbbl @randomdent @grahamsz Makes sense, I only mention it because IRC was on there. Which I discovered shortly after ICQ. ๐
@llbbl @randomdent @greg_harvey Yeah I'd tend to agree. I'm still friends with a few people I met on IRC a quarter century ago :)
Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta ์ฌ์ํ๐ฆฃIf you haven't logged-in to your ICQ since it was bought by a Russian company, don't. Once you do and you don't login for 1 year, they'll delete your account without any warning, and they won't recover it.
But accounts which were not logged-in before they took over remain in the system, in case the owner returns. (I think it was part of their acquisition condition.)
I lost my account that way. It was UIN: 17787180.
@youronlyone @greg_harvey @randomdent I tried to log into 7299123 and was 90% sure I knew the password but couldn't figure it out. More just curiosity than anything else
You have to reset with the email that was last attached to it. At least that's what I did when I first tried to reactivate it. But once you do, you'll have to log in at least once a year. They'll also migrate your account to the โnew ICQโ.
Then again, no one in my ICQ contacts are using it anymore, everyone were offline last time I had access. ^_^;;
It's surprising the new owner is keeping it alive, when AIM, YM, MSN messengers were long gone.
@youronlyone @greg_harvey @randomdent Alas I no longer have that email, so i guess that's the problem.
My parents have remarkably not changed ISP in 27 years, but they changed the format of their email addresses so I doubt I can get in to reactivate it.