smokeysea
ScalziThe tech equivalent of "I thought that celebrity was already dead"
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june
Peter
Charnock
Ariaflame@Printdevil @PeterLG @scalzi Last time I used it I got nothing but people trying to solicit me from Russia.
@ariaflame @PeterLG @scalzi I never got any of that, even when it was spamming everyone else and there was a huge exodus. No idea why.
Ditol@scalzi absolutely
raphael@scalzi well, you could argue that it was a shambling corpse ever since it was bought by the VK people.
katzenberger
Andreas M. Heitmann 
@scalzi Looking at you, IRC ... đ€Ș
Perrin42@scalzi 1982754.
"Uh oh!"
Glenda Adams@scalzi I think I saw ICQ playing at a county fair a couple years back đ
Sumilumi@scalzi ICQ was one of the main means to communicate in lower manhattan in the days following 9/11 2001. Before most in the US had sms. Last i heard of icq was early 00âs, I associate it with the late 90âs. Sad but perfectly expressed in your post.
Urzl@scalzi My original ICQ ID was only 5 digits. They were so much better than the competition back in their prime.
John Chapman
Juho MĂ€ntysalo
Brian Grinter@scalzi @lisamelton long after we stopped using it I recall reading it was massive in Brazil and a few other countries and still the primary messenger used there
Peter Cohen@flargh @scalzi @lisamelton ah well this from Wikipedia explains it đ
âIn 2023, an investigation by Brazilian news outlet NĂșcleo Jornalismo found that ICQ was used to freely share child pornography due to lax moderation policies.â
one of a number of patricks@scalzi âThe Abe Vigoda of instant messagingâ is a cursed phrase
r8r23922848. RIP #icq