Everyone switch to IRC, quick!
mIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.
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For me, mIRC had a clunky but useful script editor included that 14 year old me spent countless hours creating little chatbots with
I used mIRC for years, but as the days have marched on, XChat replaced it, and then irssi, and finally weechat on SSH.
Mostly for tech communities but yes. Libera.Chat seems to be the go-to network.
UH OH is my text message notification. People think it’s cute but then their eyes glaze over when I tell them where it’s from.
Was 216845. I’m old.
Here Lies ICQ, a better alternative to AOL Instant Messanger
1996 to 2024
486972 signing off. Godspeed.
3100493 😅
I 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.
29533018 :'-)
444438969 was a great handle. RIP.
UH OH!
With ICQ I learned the social skills that I couldn’t on the real world because I had been bullied to near death. I talked to random people all over the world, learned that I could talk to girls without having to feel like shit.
Used it so much, and with volume up, my upstairs neighbor thought I was watching the teletubbies all the time because of the UH OH!
Met my first girlfriend this way, she was in Mexico, I was in Europe. Moved to Mexico to marry her (bad idea, she was rather manipulativr and a huge cheater as it turned out, got divorced) and lived in Mexico for samn near 20 years.
To say that ICQ had a big positive influence in my life is an understatement, it changed my life beyond anything I’ve ever had before.
Thank you.
RIP 23344084
237216938 logging off.
393027090 .
When I was a kid we used to call.one of my uncles exs ICQ, because she laughed exactly like the ixw lol sound.
She must have thought we loved her, we were always trying to make her laugh just to hear it.
I’m pleasantly surprised the number of replies on Lemmy saying they used this service. It’s nice to know that there are some old people on here, like me :)
