ICQ, a once-popular IM, is shutting down on June 26, it says on its website. It once served tens of millions of users daily.
uh oh
That’s my Signal alert sound.
UH oh
I remember being annoyed back in the 90s that ICQ was better than AIM, but everyone just wanted to use AIM. On ICQ you could message offline people, change your display name, and other stuff I don’t remember. It kind of was a big influence in my “wow, people are a bunch of lazy morons” impulse I need to push against even now.
Holy crap I remembered my 7 digit id and password! Everyone on my list was “last seen a long time ago” and there’s no chat history.
3369689 you can add me
My first ever messaging platform. Still can vividly hear the notification sound… RIP
“uh-oh” is what is sounded like to me
Exactly!
I met my wife on ICQ in 1998.
I’m so sorry you’ll have to divorce her next month.
You win some and you lose some as they say
Me too. But early 2000s.
Wow, end of an era. ICQ was how I kept in touch with friends after I left for college. Back then, you had to pay per text on your phone or have a limited number each month, and ICQ was free.
Wow, I thought it shut down loooong ago. I wonder if there’s any way to retrieve an archive of your IMs or anything like that? If only I remembered my number…
I guess we are lucky they aren’t selling our old chats.
You think they would admit to that publicly?
Perhaps. But what value would 20 year old chats really have?
I have a 6 digit ICQ number. Actually made some friends IRL via ICQ.
I’m a peasant with 7 digits but met some friends on their too who I’ve met in real life and been to their weddings and bachelor parties
I got in so early, I got a single digit IQ number!
Wait, what’s ICQ?
In other news, ICWeiner is still going strong
Awww
damn, that was the first IM service I used, I still remember its logo from ~2001
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