RIP ICQ
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2024
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Weird how i still remember my number... and useless now, 'cept maybe for passwords.
So long 104034239.
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sadly annexed by VK goodbye, icq lasted longer than the first ever.
19699113... RIP
237216938 logging off.
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 :'-)
I had a buddy in the UK I chatted with on this thing in the early days. We thought we were so cool using it. We were not.
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.
393027090 .
23217791 is gone now
When I was a kid we used to call.one of my uncles exs ICQ, because she laughed exactly like the icq lol sound.
She must have thought we loved her, we were always trying to make her laugh just to hear it.
174695655 says goodbye 👋
Here Lies ICQ, a better alternative to AOL Instant Messanger
1996 to 2024
99372211 out