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how is everyone remembering their ICQ number?
I forgot mine 5 minutes after adding it to Trillian.
I miss Trillian :(
I have no idea why I remember mine, 520009. Haven’t used ICQ in many years; I didn’t know it was still up.
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.
Used it so much, and with volume up, my upstairs neighbor thought I was watching the teletubbies all the time because of the UH OH!
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.
6751 6686 here… I’m glad it’s finally getting a burial since it died like 20 years ago.
783056 good bye ICQ
23436242, signing out
19699113… RIP
RIP 23344084
sadly annexed by VK goodbye, icq lasted longer than the first ever.
Weird how i still remember my number… and useless now, 'cept maybe for passwords.
So long 104034239.
Well not anymore
True… although i’d think ICQ numbers in Ripper dictionaries are probably lower priority than simple brute-forcing sequential numbers.
UH OH is my text message notification. People think it’s cute but then their eyes glaze over when I tell them where it’s from.
29533018 :'-)
Here Lies ICQ, a better alternative to AOL Instant Messanger
1996 to 2024
It didn’t just die, it straight up was acquired by the Russians (presumably to suppress the public) and then gutted. Uh oh indeed.
We are truly living the Days of Internet Services Past.
No, it was bought by MRG after AOL fought its users and won, so they all left for Skype.
EDIT: Or maybe first by Rambler and then by MRG. Rambler was the Russian search engine I used in 2005, btw. Was an email provider too. I had an email account or two there, don’t even remember which. Also narod dot ru (free web hosting, similar to geocities) hasn’t yet been bought by Yandex then, and there were ucoz dot ru sites, and borda dot ru free web forums (something like phpbb). ICQ (and later Skype) would be used for real-time conversations in all of these communities. EDIT2: … which you’d make forums for.
23217791 is gone now