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.
Haven’t used it in many years. But I remember having a lot of fun with it in the 90s. A friend from the UK told me about it, and we used it to stay in touch.
Uh oh!
They probably got the sound file from the Visual C++ 4.2 CD’s samples folder. That’s where ICQ got it from.
Seeing as it’s not in the official song, I think it’s from a bad rip or something.
That’s what my wife said when I told her.
I hear you
Oh No, now it is even more useless that I still remember my number!
18434 Will never forget it. So many good memories there
Ooh, you beat mine: 848330 (unfortunately, mine was hacked over 5 years ago, and by the time I realized, their logs didn’t go back far enough for me to validate that I was the original owner)
I don’t remember mine, but it was a 5 digit that started with 42. I was very proud.
Damn, five figures. Nice! 912800 here.
I had the app on my phone, just to check in on my friendslist. None of them had logged on since about 2004 or so, at the latest.
I actually did forget mine. I think it was in the low six digits though, 2-something IIRC.
I had no idea ICQ was even still operational. Good on them for making it as long as they did.
I was never an ICQ user, but it’s always sad seeing such long-standing icons of the internet shut down.
Good on them for making it as long as they did.
They didn’t though, it was sold to a Russian company many years ago.
A fate worse than death.
it’s always sad seeing such long-standing icons of the internet shut down.
A reminder of how much fun Web 1.0 was, not the walled-gardened, enshittified, corporatized, ad-riddled rage baiter it is now.
I always said way back in the early 2000s that once corporations figured out the internet, it and society in general would be very screwed. Their early attempts at trying to make things go viral and create engagement were laughably bad. Then they hired a bunch of psychologists and sociologists, bought up everything, and the rest is history.
That’s the same with one armed conflict that bothers me much. In the 90s there it was called “blood vs oil” by one charismatic man (who also correctly predicted how it’d go further, though), and, well, then “blood” won, and “oil” looked miserable - evil, dishonorable and defeated, all at the same time. But in 10 years they figured it out completely, in 20 years applied that power in every area they needed (mostly not military), in 25 had a big military victory, and now the situation really sucks from the looks of it.
big military victory around 2015-now? what the fuck are you talking about
It’s amazing how retards love to blame themselves being retarded on others.
The comment was specifically formed so that you wouldn’t have to know the context except that USSR was breaking up in the 90s.
The meaning was that just like with the Web, it seemed that something good and new has happened and is stronger than something old and evil, and there won’t be a payback later. Just like with the Web it seemed that it’s open and global and can’t be corrupted. (There in my example - it seemed that freedom of nations is now a principle to respect.)
take your meds or get some sleep
Don’t mind the ramblings of Nostradumbass over here.
What?
You don’t understand something - you either explain what you don’t understand or you remain silent. This “what” implies my comment is something weird which it isn’t, you’re just slow or apparently lack ability for doing philosophy.
If it’s the bad English, “what” is also utterly useless.
lol. Posts shitty nonsense and is then an asshole about it.
The early version of what’s now Microsoft’s game suite in Windows was one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the Internet. It was a virtual gaming village where you could go sit at tables and play chess or checkers or cards with people from around the world. It worked 100% fine on 14.4k dialup.
Microsoft bought whatever that was and completely ruined it, just like they ruin everything else they buy.
That just reminded me of something I tried that was similar, I think it was called Visual Chat? It looked like a 2D cartoon, but each person controlled an avatar and could move around and talk to each other, go to other rooms, change expression, gesture, etc.
Microsoft bought whatever that was and completely ruined it, just like they ruin everything else they buy.
It’s like the Midas touch: they make it shiny, expensive, and of little use.
You probably mean Comic Chat. It was actually just an IRC client, and I think it’s still usable (but frustratingly ineffective) today. But there is a website where you can convert IRC logs to it, I think.
I just recently tried to log into my old icq account. It didn’t let me unless I provided a phone number so I noped the fuck out.
Cell phones were not really “a thing” when I had icq. No way I’ll remember my number. But I definitely used it for a time…
ICQ was still on?
I know, right? ICQ managed to survive when MSN, Yahoo and AIM were all killed by Facebook Messenger?
Right?! Like it wasn’t already shutdown. The news is that is was still operational!
Look fuck crypto, but I was part of a scrypt mining pool in 2013-2015 called “Team Doge” (guess what we primarily mined ololololol). That community was amazing. Everyone tipped generously and we had so much fun just chatting every day. Miss that group honestly.
FWIW that experience showed me how bad mining is. At least scryptcoins weren’t as intensive as Bitcoin and such.
o7
#Uh-Oh!
ICQ may be going away but that message sound effect will continue living rent free in my brain until I’m dead.
33214481
Never forgot my number. I wonder if it’s still active.
37571887
Forgot my password.
Been trying to work out what it was to login for years.
304141822 same here, I try it from time to time in case I remember, but the mail is no longer available anyway.
They removed all the accounts without a linked phone number. So even if you’d remembered your password, chances to log in are about zero.
55499345
Why do I still remember this number.
They removed all the accounts without a linked phone number. So even if you’d remembered your password, chances to log in are about zero.
ICQ died the day they were bought by AOL.
66618055 I never tried to get a better number because 666
666 One Boss
Icq numbers that go HARD
234500080, I always liked my number.
Haven’t used it in over ten years, I thought it had already shut down :)
How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don’t remember what I did last week half the time.
For some reason short strings of digits have always stuck really well in my memory. I still remember my high school locker combos and every phone number I’ve ever had.
1646590
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.
