ICQ will stop working on June 26. It’s encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.
I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn’t know anything of it still remained.
How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don’t remember what I did last week half the time.
For some reason, I never used the “save login info” feature as a teen, I didn’t trust that it was safe, so I typed it every time. Hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years. So even after 15 years or so of not using it, I still remember.
For some reason short strings of digits have always stuck really well in my memory. I still remember my high school locker combos and every phone number I’ve ever had.
813-823-6615 was my childhood number until I was 10. My mom sang it to us. Never thought to remember my lock code. 0-31-10.
I taught my kids our address and my telephone number through songs when they were little. Music makes learning abstract things like that way easier. I teach the quadratic formula wihh a song to my Algebra students every year.
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I am autistic.
Seriously, though, diagnosed autistic and I remember numbers exceptionally well.
- ICQ number 6725571
- Pi to 260 decimal places
- My ex-wife’s driver’s license number
- My 11-digit Blockbuster employee numbers from the two stores I used to work at
- The nine-digit employee numbers of a few employees under me from when I worked at Six Flags in 1994
I used mine in my mail signature for a while and I’ve kept all my emails since late 90s.
Fair. My current mail signature has a dead link in it and I can’t be bothered to do anything about it.
What’s with your pride in being complacent?
What are you talking about?
“I can’t be bothered to update my signature” - you could fix it in half the time it takes to post here. It’s just a weird… I’d say flex, but it’s the opposite. It’s like a sag or deflation.
I could, but I don’t feel like it. Why do you care?
For the same reasons you do not care.
This is mildly upsetting because I remember ICQ is where I first met a seer who I was referred to by someone else. This was back when I was looking for help regarding a number of strange dreams and spirit visitations I was dealing with.
How did that end? I need details about all of it. The dreams, the seer, the treatment, the outcome.
If you don’t mind.
They lost money.
Such a lazy take. Obviously you don’t have any experience with the early internet occult scene. Why, then, would you give an opinion on something you know nothing about?
Early, late, or no Internet, the occult scene has always been a made up bunch of mumbo jumbo. One doesn’t need experience with it to know that.
You seem to know the subject. Who exactly are you referring to ? Are there some practices in particular that have caught your attention ? Some specific communities maybe ?
Nothing specific. Talking to ghosts, spirits, or seeing visions is a child’s game. Getting someone to pay you money to talk to spirits ghosts, or see visions, is a con man’s game. Both are made up, one is acceptable.
I didn’t lose money because no money was involved.
Should have been looking for a therapist (that said, I’ve done my deal of blabbering about occult stuff back then too)
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Look fuck crypto, but I was part of a scrypt mining pool in 2013-2015 called “Team Doge” (guess what we primarily mined ololololol). That community was amazing. Everyone tipped generously and we had so much fun just chatting every day. Miss that group honestly.
FWIW that experience showed me how bad mining is. At least scryptcoins weren’t as intensive as Bitcoin and such.
Icq was bought a while ago and the buyer nuked the original user database. Not long ago I found my login info saved on an old zip drive and tried it. Was hoping my old buddies might still be there, hahahah.
Nope, icq as most remember it was toast maybe a decade ago.
I remember downloading almost the complete catalogue of Sega Dreamcast games through ICQ, along with plenty of rooms where “A/S/L?” was a common greeting.
Old enough/yes please/anywhere you’d like
ICQ was still around? I thought it died ages ago!
It had. This thing only has branding in common. A different protocol, a different set of features (no contact directory), and while they had the old database of everything, they deemed a good idea to not preserve it, so old UINs don’t exist.
That’s a shame, I still remember mine. Weird how you can remember 7 random digits from 30 years ago…
My 8 digit UIN has been used as a password for a lot of things
Meanwhile I’ve no idea what’s my partners phone number
Hell I still remember my Nintendo Power membership number.
66618055 I never tried to get a better number because 666
I feel envious.
Can’t remember my number
666 One Boss
Icq numbers that go HARD
ICQ was still online!?!?!
I stopped using that shit like 25 years ago. Thought died in the late 90’s
Same. Wow
I met an interesting Argentinian girl through ICQ. A co-worker ended up getting their inbox filled with large attachments from an overseas office with fast internet. We were still on dial-up. We just had pop3 access, no online front end. I stayed in the office over night to download the files so the connection wouldn’t be interrupted by someone else accessing the line. To pass the time, I downloaded ICQ and started chatting with the Argentinian girl. She introduced me to this song.
Great memories.
The Song is quite fitting for an overnight shift in an office :D
#Uh-Oh!
ICQ may be going away but that message sound effect will continue living rent free in my brain until I’m dead.
I’ve heard that exact sound used on some computers (lottery maybe?) in gas stations in the US. I’m not sure why they picked that exact sound, but it’s definitely distinct and recognizable.
Okay, can we all acknowledge that ICQ died when they nuked pretty much all of the accounts for no good reason?
While it’s true it’s shutting down, it was effectively dead for years. This is just the death rattle.
1808142… I’m practically a boomer with that.
somethingsomething-323-945
I wonder how many old accounts I have from my childhood floating around, long forgotten, created well before the days of using a password manager
