fudge
The king has died, long live the shit we have now?
Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we’ve got.
Nobody cares about Skype anymore as much. VK Messenger, which is ICQ’s successor, looks like trash. Telegram used to be very great but did take some morally questionable steps, yet still gives the user an awful lot of power. Zoom is garbage. Microsoft Teams is garbage. Facebook Messenger is garbage.
So if I had to pick, Discord and Telegram is the best we’ve got now.
I sadly agree with you.
Slack?
Slack went AI retard.
Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we’ve got.
That’s amazingly depressing.
IRC? Matrix? XMPP?
signal? 🤷♂️
You mean MSN messenger doesn’t exist anymore?!?
Uh oh!
TIL ICQ was still going.
Same here. LOL!
We three!
Rip. You were always better than msm message.
I can still hear that uh oh
Ok but only because of that prozzac song lol
Damn i still say that like that sometimes, and i totally forgot where it came from
the weirdest location I ever heard that sound was a random small supermarket that had that sound as the scan-bleep-sound of the register barcode scanner.
Every item that was getting pulled over it, went “uh oh”
If I’d work there I’d probably get fired for destroying that.
yup. it was already quite hard to stay calm during the short time I had to queue
My icq# was 4706179 and I doubt I’ll ever forget it.
4382561 signing out.
1132418 here!
2576568 signing out
I forgot mine years ago. :(
Nice job doxing yourself idiot /s
31299966 man, I didn’t realize it was still running. The live text chat was the best.
11909704 it’s been probably 25 to 30 years since I’ve used it, and still remember
15189530, seared into my brain like my childhood phone number.
Man, those were the days…
It’s been part of VKontakte since 2010. Good riddance I guess.
Loved it back in the day.
My UIN is still etched into my memory. 1803929.
Holy shit,I didn’t even know it was still available
I seek you. so clever…
I really liked the design of the underlying protocol (OSCAR, also used BY AIM). It was a lot of fun to implement in a 3rd party client and I learned so much about networking and application protocols from the experience. It contributed immensely my career path.
It was my first introduction to the type-length-value concept over the network, seemed radically different from the text only IRC protocol that I knew back then. I remember how fun it was to write an elegant parser for the ICQ messaging, and how I ended up on somewhat a DOM model where I converted the on-wire format into series of nested objects. Not the most efficient idea, but it was neat.
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I remember when they first introduced the live chat feature.
You could literally watch the other person type something out, erase their mistakes and correct it in real time.
That shit blew my mind as a kid.
RIP one of the most enjoyable messengers I ever used 🫡
