ICQ is finally closing forever!
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ICQ is finally closing forever!
I am a tiny bit sad. If only because now I will remember a number -- 23149880 -- that is truly and completely obsolete. I really need to conserve brain space for more important things.
Also, if ICQ can last, what, 15 years? after it became irrelevant, what does that say about how long we're going to have to suffer with Twitter/X if people ever actually leave en-masse?
Do you remember your ICQ#?
#ICQ #OpenSocialWeb #SocialMedia #Twitter #DumpMusk #Transition
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Stéphanie Pageaureplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 on last edited by
@chris ICQ still existed??
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Stéphanie Pageau on last edited by
@stephanie hahah. yes! Up until a couple years ago you could actually still login with your old number and password!
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Amginereplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 on last edited by
What I remember most about ICQ was someone from security explaining it was created as a honeypot by Israel, and therefore no, I could not use it to communicate with them.
At which point I abandoned it. That was, uh, late 90s? so it lasted rather longer than 15 years!
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Amgine on last edited by
@amgine honeypot by Israel: REALLY!? I have never heard this. That’s nuts.
I was counting since it was really unused as a communication means. I'd say I stopped using it around 2008.
I just searched for "ICQ" in my email and this popped up in my archives from April 2005. hahahah
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 on last edited by
aside: I wonder if anyone 'owns' the logo, or the distinctive sound it made. It would be fun to have it as an emoticon, and a sound effect in Mastodon. #ICQ #OpenSocialWeb #SocialMedia #Twitter #DumpMusk #Transition
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El Louisreplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 on last edited by
@chris What a blast from the past! I remember mine. 33024673.
I just looked it up and yes, that's it. -
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to El Louis on last edited by
@ellouis nice!
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Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 on last edited by
@chris It’s super useful when you need to create a code for your phone or something!
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Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈replied to Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 on last edited by
@chris I personally use the serial number of my first car. I still don’t know why one day my eyes looked at it and my brain just went “That’s something worth remembering—let me dedicate some space and power to it.”
Over 30 years later, those 15 characters don’t exist anywhere besides my brain anymore.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 on last edited by
@bougiewonderland *that* is impressive!
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Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 on last edited by
@chris Honestly, for someone who has a hard time remembering what she ate the day before, I still have no idea how that happened!
And it’s not even “look at how easy this sequence of letters and numbers is.” It’s just a random jumble.
Living free in my brain since 1997.
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@[email protected] bahaha yes I believe I did this for NodeBB (not Mastodon, sorry) years ago.
You could change the default notification sound in NodeBB to the ICQ "uh oh!".
I've been waiting for a C&D since, but nothing yet LOL
In the meantime we actually removed the sound altogether, so that didn't even last long.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 on last edited by
@bougiewonderland put the old combination lock in front of me from high school and I'm sure I could still open that. But that's more muscle memory than the numbers. (though i remember the numbers! :D)
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to julian on last edited by
@julian surely someone can add this to the Mastodon project list ;=)
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Jonathan Lamothereplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 on last edited by
@chris 4879883, though I lost the password many, many years ago.
I actually didn't realize that ICQ was still a thing (though I suppose not for long).
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Jonathan Lamothe on last edited by
@me oo! that's an early one!
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Grant Hutchinsonreplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 on last edited by
@chris My #ICQ number is 121941025. Used to hang out with like-minded #AppleNewton folk back in the day.