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 π@randomdent I put Myspace, but it was probably really ICQ. Apparently it's still going!? π€―
grahamsz@greg_harvey @randomdent Is it really!?
I still know my ICQ #
Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta μ¬μνπ¦£If 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 βnew ICQβ.
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.