fne8w2ahPioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA
ddhUh oh well
RIP 53215700, the oldest account I’m still aware of that I’ve forgotten the password to. Must have made it in 98 or 99.
Y|yukichigai86336930 checking in. Pretty sure I remember the password, but it’s not like I can check now.
You will be missed, ICQ. When no other messaging service worked, you always did.
2728604 checking in, man i miss those days
Maestro22421382 here. I can't believe I still know that number by heart after 20+ years.
r00tyPretty sure mine was 16399753. But, not logged in for probably 15 or more years, so could be wrong.
No idea whatsoever about the password :P
52 million seems high for that timeframe.
I’m not sure how the numbers were doled out, but in 2000 it was a big deal having a sub-9-digit ICQ number.
Maybe I’m off by a bit then. I could have sworn I had one in like the 500k range but it must have been around '97 or '98.
I got on ICQ in 97 or 98 to keep up with friends from a MUD and mine was 7 digits. I haven’t logged into it in over a decade because when I went back to see if anyone from the old game was around none ever showed up online.
Yeah, you’re right. I was playing Tribes 2 around that time and it came out in 2001.
691948 here.
2452680 reporting in
165166320 here
👍Maximum Derek👍28 is a perfect number of years to shut down after.
I’ll see myself out.
Don’t disturbed celebrities kill themselves at 28?
It’s known as the 27 club.
Frank🦁FIt was still going?!
BlackoutI just signed up yesterday too.
The last uh has been oh’d
mihntEveryone switch to IRC, quick!
RememberTheApollo_mIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.
EngineerGamingAs someone who has most of her socialization on IRC now… Eww, mIRC is proprietary and for Windows. Maybe it’s just me having learned about IRC only a couple years ago and thus not having a sentimental attachment, but why use it if you have open-source ones like Hexchat, Irssi or Weechat?
kingthrillgoreI used mIRC for years, but as the days have marched on, XChat replaced it, and then irssi, and finally weechat on SSH.
For me, mIRC had a clunky but useful script editor included that 14 year old me spent countless hours creating little chatbots with
Mostly for tech communities but yes. Libera.Chat seems to be the go-to network.
ICQ was my first foray into meeting girls online, back when that was a really weird thing to do.
Post a/s/l to pay respects.
10/f/935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC, DC 20535
Now I’m no American, but something smells FBIish about that address.
There’s a quote that came from ICQ’s heyday:
“The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and little girls are FBI agents.”
We need to revise that for Lemmy.
“Lemmy: Where men are men, and men are women, and women are men, and I think we’ve got a few women who were born women, and also there’s a whole bunch of new genders as well, and no genders at all, and that’s all cool with most of us.”
It’s a mouthful and might not read well on a t-shirt, but we can workshop it.
BlueÆtherI like it, lots
You forgot the FBI agents.
We’re all FBI agents on this blessed day.
Speak for yourself
"Wow, how cool is it that she’s 13 and already works for the FBI! "
What was this from? I know the reference but can’t place it. I could obviously search for it but, hey, I’m trying to be social here.
Man, I don’t know honestly. I believe i first saw / read it on IRC in the 90’s…
and now I’m turning to dust. haha
Thanks for being social!!!
richieadlerI knew my first long distance gf on ICQ. I remember also having that service in Miranda IM along Yahoo Chat, MSN, Google Chat (back when it was based on XMPP) and Jabber.
Messages from my current gf are announced with the classic ICQ “Uh-oh!”.
a/s/l
jballs19/f/cali
I’m pressing X to doubt.
Madbrad200I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc
DudeImMacGyverDidn’t know this was still around, wow.
Altima NEOTechnically wasn’t. Some Russian company bought the rights and cleared old accounts at some point.
Not sure about the owner, but I was able to sign in and see my profile a few days ago. It was an account from maybe ‘96 or ‘97, and I hadn’t even attempted to sign in in at least 15 years.
BoozillaI had a buddy in the UK I chatted with on this thing in the early days. We thought we were so cool using it. We were not.
It’s with the aim and yahoo messenger in the clouds now. Good bye Trillian profile I had back in the late 90s, you were too beautiful for this world.
Yes! Trillian was awesome! I used it fairly religiously from the early to mid 00s. Combined my ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, and AIM. I miss that beautiful, convenient piece of software.
OhStopYellingAtMe
Schwim Dandy24546982
9787393
691948
Uh-oh!
I still remember my number. It was 7 digits.
Noble Shift4066872, signing off. Thank you and goodbye.
Was 216845. I’m old.
littlecolt486972 signing off. Godspeed.