ICQ was pretty good. You could message offline people, which AOL/aim didn’t support. Of course, this lead to a whole experience of waiting for your friend/crush to log on, but then not messaging them immediately… but then they log off and the opportunity passed.
It takes me a minute to remember my cell number, but I can rattle off my IQC number in a second. My ICQ fridge magnet was kept for decades through multiple moves
I remember i downloaded ICQ for my counter strike clan. That was the first i had ever heard of it, but i guess it had hit international popularity already . When I realized you just got a number, i was baffled that i couldnt search by name. Didnt take me long to memorize that number and make many online friends
Random chat made me some amazing friends that I kept in touch with for decades. Those friendships lasted longer than IQC did. Sadly, the Internet is a different place now.
I loved ICQ too at the time, but I’m not giving up End-To-End encrypted messaging for copyright stealing ICQ.
“You agree that by posting any material or information anywhere on the ICQ Services and Information you surrender your copyright and any other proprietary right in the posted material or information. You further agree that ICQ Inc. is entitled to use at its own discretion any of the posted material or information in any manner it deems fit, including, but not limited to, publishing the material or distributing it.”
But I’m totally okay to see ICQ brought back as a “skin” for the matrix-protocol. Something that looks, sounds and works like ICQ, but is based on modern communications technology.
No, not ICQ
ICQ was pretty good. You could message offline people, which AOL/aim didn’t support. Of course, this lead to a whole experience of waiting for your friend/crush to log on, but then not messaging them immediately… but then they log off and the opportunity passed.
It takes me a minute to remember my cell number, but I can rattle off my IQC number in a second. My ICQ fridge magnet was kept for decades through multiple moves
I remember i downloaded ICQ for my counter strike clan. That was the first i had ever heard of it, but i guess it had hit international popularity already . When I realized you just got a number, i was baffled that i couldnt search by name. Didnt take me long to memorize that number and make many online friends
Random chat made me some amazing friends that I kept in touch with for decades. Those friendships lasted longer than IQC did. Sadly, the Internet is a different place now.
Oh gosh I can still remember mine!
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sad ship horn noises
I loved ICQ! I’m sure some people thought it was a horrible idea to see people type in real time but to me it was peak messenging.
I loved ICQ too at the time, but I’m not giving up End-To-End encrypted messaging for copyright stealing ICQ.
But I’m totally okay to see ICQ brought back as a “skin” for the matrix-protocol. Something that looks, sounds and works like ICQ, but is based on modern communications technology.
I still know my ICQ number by heart, and a close friends too, who is lower than mine by about 50k. 140… and mine was 201…
Haven’t used em in about 25 years.
But then I also still know my childhood phone number.