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Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fne8w2ah@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/icq-messenger-shuts-after-28-years-4437901

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  • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ICQ was my first foray into meeting girls online, back when that was a really weird thing to do.

    Post a/s/l to pay respects.

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    • mdd@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      a/s/l

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      10/f/935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC, DC 20535

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      • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Now I’m no American, but something smells FBIish about that address.

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    • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I knew my first long distance gf on ICQ. I remember also having that service in Miranda IM along Yahoo Chat, MSN, Google Chat (back when it was based on XMPP) and Jabber.

      Messages from my current gf are announced with the classic ICQ “Uh-oh!”.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      19/f/cali

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      • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m pressing X to doubt.

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    • Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc

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  • mihnt@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone switch to IRC, quick!

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      mIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As someone who has most of her socialization on IRC now… Eww, mIRC is proprietary and for Windows. Maybe it’s just me having learned about IRC only a couple years ago and thus not having a sentimental attachment, but why use it if you have open-source ones like Hexchat, Irssi or Weechat?

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      • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mostly for tech communities but yes. Libera.Chat seems to be the go-to network.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RIP 53215700, the oldest account I’m still aware of that I’ve forgotten the password to. Must have made it in 98 or 99.

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    • yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago

        2728604 checking in, man i miss those days

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      52 million seems high for that timeframe.

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      • yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago

      691948 here.

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      2452680 reporting in

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    • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      165166320 here

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    28 is a perfect number of years to shut down after.

    I’ll see myself out.

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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t disturbed celebrities kill themselves at 28?

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      • coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        27

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      • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s known as the 27 club.

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  • Matombo@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The last uh has been oh’d

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  • Blackout@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just signed up yesterday too.

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    • muse@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel you. I signed up for a Border's rewards card the day before the company went under

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  • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Uh-oh!

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  • Jeff@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Was 216845. I’m old.

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  • Lightrider@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was still going?!

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  • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still remember my number. It was 7 digits.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how is everyone remembering their ICQ number?

    I forgot mine 5 minutes after adding it to Trillian.

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    • paholg@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I miss Trillian :(

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    • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have no idea why I remember mine, 520009. Haven’t used ICQ in many years; I didn’t know it was still up.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s with the aim and yahoo messenger in the clouds now. Good bye Trillian profile I had back in the late 90s, you were too beautiful for this world.

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    • PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes! Trillian was awesome! I used it fairly religiously from the early to mid 00s. Combined my ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, and AIM. I miss that beautiful, convenient piece of software.

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  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 :)

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

    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.

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  • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    486972 signing off. Godspeed.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    6751 6686 here… I’m glad it’s finally getting a burial since it died like 20 years ago.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    783056 good bye ICQ

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  • AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    1. Thanks for the memories.
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  • TheRealJefe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    23436242, signing out

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  • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    304141822

    Farewell o7

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  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    444438969 was a great handle. RIP.

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  • Wiitigo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    3100493 😅

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  • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Uh oh well

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Weird how i still remember my number… and useless, now, 'cept maybe for passwords.

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    • androogee@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well not anymore

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      • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True… although i’d think ICQ numbers in Ripper dictionaries are probably lower priority than simple brute-forcing sequential numbers.

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  • schwim@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    24546982

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    • lido@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      691948

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    • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      9787393

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RIP ICQ

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  • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    19699113… RIP

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  • Lulzagna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RIP 23344084

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