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.
How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don’t remember what I did last week half the time.
1646590
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.
813-823-6615 was my childhood number until I was 10. My mom sang it to us. Never thought to remember my lock code. 0-31-10.
I taught my kids our address and my telephone number through songs when they were little. Music makes learning abstract things like that way easier. I teach the quadratic formula wihh a song to my Algebra students every year.
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.
What’s with your pride in being complacent?
What are you talking about?
“I can’t be bothered to update my signature” - you could fix it in half the time it takes to post here. It’s just a weird… I’d say flex, but it’s the opposite. It’s like a sag or deflation.
I could, but I don’t feel like it. Why do you care?
For the same reasons you do not care.
For some reason, I never used the “save login info” feature as a teen, I didn’t trust that it was safe, so I typed it every time. Hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years. So even after 15 years or so of not using it, I still remember.
I am autistic.
Seriously, though, diagnosed autistic and I remember numbers exceptionally well.
- ICQ number 6725571
- Pi to 260 decimal places
- My ex-wife’s driver’s license number
- My 11-digit Blockbuster employee numbers from the two stores I used to work at
- The nine-digit employee numbers of a few employees under me from when I worked at Six Flags in 1994
42442595 I was still logging in until it stopped working with Adium. It’d been a long time since I’d seen any of my contacts login at that point though. Just downloaded the official app and yeah. still a ghost town lol.
ICQ was still online!?!?!
I stopped using that shit like 25 years ago. Thought died in the late 90’s
Same. Wow
This is mildly upsetting because I remember ICQ is where I first met a seer who I was referred to by someone else. This was back when I was looking for help regarding a number of strange dreams and spirit visitations I was dealing with.
How did that end? I need details about all of it. The dreams, the seer, the treatment, the outcome.
If you don’t mind.
They lost money.
I didn’t lose money because no money was involved.
Such a lazy take. Obviously you don’t have any experience with the early internet occult scene. Why, then, would you give an opinion on something you know nothing about?
Early, late, or no Internet, the occult scene has always been a made up bunch of mumbo jumbo. One doesn’t need experience with it to know that.
You seem to know the subject. Who exactly are you referring to ? Are there some practices in particular that have caught your attention ? Some specific communities maybe ?
Nothing specific. Talking to ghosts, spirits, or seeing visions is a child’s game. Getting someone to pay you money to talk to spirits ghosts, or see visions, is a con man’s game. Both are made up, one is acceptable.
Should have been looking for a therapist (that said, I’ve done my deal of blabbering about occult stuff back then too)
#Uh-Oh!
ICQ may be going away but that message sound effect will continue living rent free in my brain until I’m dead.
I’ve heard that exact sound used on some computers (lottery maybe?) in gas stations in the US. I’m not sure why they picked that exact sound, but it’s definitely distinct and recognizable.
TIL: ICQ was still around
Yeah I stopped around the same time. But I didn’t know they were run by VK. That’s interesting.
Used that when playing UO with buddies. Damn, now I feel old.
Fuuuuuuck… every once in awhile I’m like “I should bust out UO again!” But I can never recapture the magic that it once was for me.
4066088, still works too!
Earlier than mine, I was 7 digits, but started with a 7 IIRC.
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.
I just logged with 77454405 and it still works. wow.
Meanwhile IRC and Usenet are still doing fine.
Those are protocols, so the servers/services that run than can come and go. XMPP, which was at least inspired by ICQ, will probably be around forever, similarly.
OSCAR is a protocol too. And there were ICQ servers to run locally back then too. There also was some “ICQ for business” or similar.
I’ve also learned yesterday that people responsible for Escargot (MSN server) have another project, NINA, for AIM and ICQ.
So maybe these things will be reborn.
They seem to aim for implementing all of the AOL suite functionality. Maybe after they achieve that we’ll see Xtraz and contact directory from ICQ working again. If that happens, I’m going to cry for a few hours. EDIT: or weeks.
Okay, can we all acknowledge that ICQ died when they nuked pretty much all of the accounts for no good reason?
While it’s true it’s shutting down, it was effectively dead for years. This is just the death rattle.
knock knock knock in the middle of the nicht because i forgot to turn off my speakers, and the whole household would wake up 😂
Oh wauw! I think ICQ 98b was the best version ever! Then everyone switched to MSN, and down hill went the internet (for me anyway)
Oh No, now it is even more useless that I still remember my number!
66618055 I never tried to get a better number because 666
I feel envious.
Can’t remember my number
666 One Boss
Icq numbers that go HARD
