Comment on Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA

deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  86336930 checking in. Pretty sure I remember the password, but it’s not like I can check now.

  You will be missed, ICQ. When no other messaging service worked, you always did.

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  • Dalraz@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    2728604 checking in, man i miss those days

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    • Maestro@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      22421382 here. I can't believe I still know that number by heart after 20+ years.

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      • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Pretty sure mine was 16399753. But, not logged in for probably 15 or more years, so could be wrong.

        No idea whatsoever about the password :P

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• AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  52 million seems high for that timeframe.

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  • yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not sure how the numbers were doled out, but in 2000 it was a big deal having a sub-9-digit ICQ number.

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe I’m off by a bit then. I could have sworn I had one in like the 500k range but it must have been like '97 or '98.

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      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I got on ICQ in 97 or 98 to keep up with friends from a MUD and mine was 7 digits. I haven’t logged into it in over a decade because when I went back to see if anyone from the old game was around none ever showed up online.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, you’re right. I was playing Tribes 2 around that time and it came out in 2001.

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• lido@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  691948 here.

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• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  2452680 reporting in

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• pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  165166320 here

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