Technology

I met my wife on ICQ. I had random chat turned on and she said, "Hello." That was a long time ago

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.

Uh oh!

*My favorite random icq sound finding it's way into music https://youtu.be/nZHFy3YfagU

ICQ was still on?

Two wtf here.

One, icq was still online? I stopped using that one aim got popular and everyone had it.

And two, vk owns icq??

ICQ was still around? I thought it died ages ago!

#Uh-Oh!

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.

ICQ died the day they were bought by AOL.

TIL: ICQ was still around

I remember downloading almost the complete catalogue of Sega Dreamcast games through ICQ, along with plenty of rooms where “A/S/L?” was a common greeting.

Meanwhile IRC and Usenet are still doing fine.

I met an interesting Argentinian girl through ICQ. A co-worker ended up getting their inbox filled with large attachments from an overseas office with fast internet. We were still on dial-up. We just had pop3 access, no online front end. I stayed in the office over night to download the files so the connection wouldn't be interrupted by someone else accessing the line. To pass the time, I downloaded ICQ and started chatting with the Argentinian girl. She introduced me to this song.

Great memories.

I wonder how many old accounts I have from my childhood floating around, long forgotten, created well before the days of using a password manager

Icq was bought a while ago and the buyer nuked the original user database. Not long ago I found my login info saved on an old zip drive and tried it. Was hoping my old buddies might still be there, hahahah.

Nope, icq as most remember it was toast maybe a decade ago.

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)

18434 Will never forget it. So many good memories there

Uh oh

How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don't remember what I did last week half the time.

66618055 I never tried to get a better number because 666

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.

2278311 🫡

33214481

Never forgot my number. I wonder if it's still active.

ICQ was still online!?!?!

I stopped using that shit like 25 years ago. Thought died in the late 90's

It was interesting how random people came to talk to you and were really trying to get to know you. I don't think that would work in modern day internet.

I knew they were around because at times I randomly remembered my ICQ number and I tried logging in, but they won't let you if you forgot your password.

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.