While I haven't used ICQ in ages, it does have a special place for me as being the first messaging system I used, and the relationship with my now wife was developed over many chats on ICQ. Also,...
While I haven't used ICQ in ages, it does have a special place for me as being the first messaging system I used, and the relationship with my now wife was developed over many chats on ICQ. Also, does anyone remember this ICQ song?
I still remember my ICQ number. Even though I only used it from like 2000 to about 2004 for Ultima Online. Signed up as kid/teen to talk with guildmates outside of game and to arrange in-game...
I still remember my ICQ number. Even though I only used it from like 2000 to about 2004 for Ultima Online. Signed up as kid/teen to talk with guildmates outside of game and to arrange in-game sales/trades (I mined like a madman in that game).
I've logged in a few times over the years, just to see if I could. The first time, probably sometime in the late 00s, I still had messages waiting for me. I think I last signed-in sometime over the pandemic. But by then, even my contact lists were entirely gone.
To me, it was always a shame that ICQ didn't hold. I thought it was way better than AIM/MSN/Yahoo, since you could use it like email and leave chat messages for people who were offline (especially in the days of dial-up). But I also get that a number wasn't as cool as "xX_JC_Ph03n1X_Xx" to us then kids/teens lol.
Holy hell, those other messengers could not do that? Here in Czechia literally everyone used ICQ at that pre-facebook time (you could still set a nick, the number was just for looking people up...
To me, it was always a shame that ICQ didn't hold. I thought it was way better than AIM/MSN/Yahoo, since you could use it like email and leave chat messages for people who were offline (especially in the days of dial-up).
Holy hell, those other messengers could not do that? Here in Czechia literally everyone used ICQ at that pre-facebook time (you could still set a nick, the number was just for looking people up efficiently btw), so I guess I never knew how good we had it.
I made the switch to MSN mostly because it had that little avatar picture and it was fun to swap out what I was using. I don't think I've ever met anyone that used the AOL one. Always makes me...
I made the switch to MSN mostly because it had that little avatar picture and it was fun to swap out what I was using.
I don't think I've ever met anyone that used the AOL one. Always makes me think of those random CDs they'd send on the mail.
AIM was king when I was young, i still sort of miss having away messages up with angsty song lyrics. I thought the emoji looked weird on MSN and didn't like them Oh but there was also Trillium...
AIM was king when I was young, i still sort of miss having away messages up with angsty song lyrics. I thought the emoji looked weird on MSN and didn't like them
Oh but there was also Trillium which let you cross message everyone.
I very briefly used Trillian, but it didn't support the MSN avatar. Then around that time I started university and everyone there used MSN instead if icq so it became a moot point.
I very briefly used Trillian, but it didn't support the MSN avatar. Then around that time I started university and everyone there used MSN instead if icq so it became a moot point.
Wow, I'm surprised I remembered not onky my ICQ number but also the password on the first try. I haven't used it in 10 years. And I won't ever again. I have memories of using ICQ but nothing...
Wow, I'm surprised I remembered not onky my ICQ number but also the password on the first try. I haven't used it in 10 years. And I won't ever again.
I have memories of using ICQ but nothing really extra. I'm kinda surprised it still works today :-) Only to learn it is ceasing to exiat in the future.
Bless ICQ. It never really did much for me, I jumped from Usenet to IRC to MS Messenger. I had it for a while but MSM pretty much killed ICQ in my friend groups. Anyone that was playing black and...
Bless ICQ. It never really did much for me, I jumped from Usenet to IRC to MS Messenger. I had it for a while but MSM pretty much killed ICQ in my friend groups. Anyone that was playing black and grey hats stuck to IRC.
These days I'm available via Signal and I do still use IRC for freenode #bash for when I'm truly stuck and need script advice, however, this is dying too. Now it's just asking a bot/AI model.
Whoa. That was a blast from the past. I’ve not thought about ICQ in many years. At one point I was inordinately proud to have AIM MSN and ICQ handles in my email sig. Now I’m wondering if that was...
Whoa. That was a blast from the past. I’ve not thought about ICQ in many years. At one point I was inordinately proud to have AIM MSN and ICQ handles in my email sig.
Now I’m wondering if that was in my hotmail email address.
This is a confusing feeling of “god I’m old” and “whoa I’m in the right community with all these old heads”.
about a decade or so ago I woke up with these numbers in my head. I finally realized that it was my old ICQ number. I tried to get into my old account, but I didn't know the password, have access...
about a decade or so ago I woke up with these numbers in my head. I finally realized that it was my old ICQ number.
I tried to get into my old account, but I didn't know the password, have access to the email, didn't even know the email used, and really had no path to password recovery.
I emailed their support saying that I wanted in but didn't have access to anything and they asked me to name three people in my contact list. I gave off relatively generic first names -- Josh, Christina, Tim -- that was good enough for them.
When I go on, I've got two others who are online, but I don't really want to message them, even though I know I should.
I had no idea that this was still around. I remember using this as a teenager probably close to 25 years ago. Then I made a brief change to MSN followed by AIM. I think AIM was the one I used the...
I had no idea that this was still around. I remember using this as a teenager probably close to 25 years ago. Then I made a brief change to MSN followed by AIM. I think AIM was the one I used the longest.
While I haven't used ICQ in ages, it does have a special place for me as being the first messaging system I used, and the relationship with my now wife was developed over many chats on ICQ. Also, does anyone remember this ICQ song?
I still remember my ICQ number. Even though I only used it from like 2000 to about 2004 for Ultima Online. Signed up as kid/teen to talk with guildmates outside of game and to arrange in-game sales/trades (I mined like a madman in that game).
I've logged in a few times over the years, just to see if I could. The first time, probably sometime in the late 00s, I still had messages waiting for me. I think I last signed-in sometime over the pandemic. But by then, even my contact lists were entirely gone.
To me, it was always a shame that ICQ didn't hold. I thought it was way better than AIM/MSN/Yahoo, since you could use it like email and leave chat messages for people who were offline (especially in the days of dial-up). But I also get that a number wasn't as cool as "xX_JC_Ph03n1X_Xx" to us then kids/teens lol.
Holy hell, those other messengers could not do that? Here in Czechia literally everyone used ICQ at that pre-facebook time (you could still set a nick, the number was just for looking people up efficiently btw), so I guess I never knew how good we had it.
I seem to remember that at least 2/3 of them could do that. Though to be fair, they may have added that feature later in response to ICQ.
MSN eventually could.
I made the switch to MSN mostly because it had that little avatar picture and it was fun to swap out what I was using.
I don't think I've ever met anyone that used the AOL one. Always makes me think of those random CDs they'd send on the mail.
AIM was king when I was young, i still sort of miss having away messages up with angsty song lyrics. I thought the emoji looked weird on MSN and didn't like them
Oh but there was also Trillium which let you cross message everyone.
Trilian (which is what I think you meant) still exists!
https://www.trillian.im/
Yes, I definitely said Trillian! I'll have to go check it out, but I haven't used any of them since all the individual messengers fell out of fashion
I very briefly used Trillian, but it didn't support the MSN avatar. Then around that time I started university and everyone there used MSN instead if icq so it became a moot point.
Wow, I'm surprised I remembered not onky my ICQ number but also the password on the first try. I haven't used it in 10 years. And I won't ever again.
I have memories of using ICQ but nothing really extra. I'm kinda surprised it still works today :-) Only to learn it is ceasing to exiat in the future.
Bless ICQ. It never really did much for me, I jumped from Usenet to IRC to MS Messenger. I had it for a while but MSM pretty much killed ICQ in my friend groups. Anyone that was playing black and grey hats stuck to IRC.
These days I'm available via Signal and I do still use IRC for freenode #bash for when I'm truly stuck and need script advice, however, this is dying too. Now it's just asking a bot/AI model.
Whoa. That was a blast from the past. I’ve not thought about ICQ in many years. At one point I was inordinately proud to have AIM MSN and ICQ handles in my email sig.
Now I’m wondering if that was in my hotmail email address.
This is a confusing feeling of “god I’m old” and “whoa I’m in the right community with all these old heads”.
about a decade or so ago I woke up with these numbers in my head. I finally realized that it was my old ICQ number.
I tried to get into my old account, but I didn't know the password, have access to the email, didn't even know the email used, and really had no path to password recovery.
I emailed their support saying that I wanted in but didn't have access to anything and they asked me to name three people in my contact list. I gave off relatively generic first names -- Josh, Christina, Tim -- that was good enough for them.
When I go on, I've got two others who are online, but I don't really want to message them, even though I know I should.
I had no idea that this was still around. I remember using this as a teenager probably close to 25 years ago. Then I made a brief change to MSN followed by AIM. I think AIM was the one I used the longest.
I'm sad to hear this, but also amazed that it's still running.