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.
ICQ was my first foray into meeting girls online, back when that was a really weird thing to do.
Post a/s/l to pay respects.
a/s/l
10/f/935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC, 20535
Now I’m no American, but something smells FBIish about that address.
There’s a quote that came from ICQ’s heyday that I had in mind when I wrote that:
“The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and little girls are FBI agents.”
"Wow, how cool is it that she’s 13 and already works for the FBI! "
What was this from? I know the reference but can’t place it. I could obviously search for it but, hey, I’m trying to be social here.
Man, I don’t know honestly. I believe i first saw / read it on IRC in the 90’s…
and now I’m turning to dust. haha
Thanks for being social!!!
We need to revise that for Lemmy.
“Lemmy: Where men are men, and men are women, and women are men, and I think we’ve got a few women who were born women, and also there’s a whole bunch of new genders as well, and no genders at all, and that’s all cool with most of us.”
It’s a mouthful and might not read well on a t-shirt, but we can workshop it.
You forgot the FBI agents.
We’re all FBI agents on this blessed day.
I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc
I knew my first long distance gf on ICQ. I remember also having that service in Miranda IM along Yahoo Chat, MSN, Google Chat (back when it was based on XMPP) and Jabber.
Messages from my current gf are announced with the classic ICQ “Uh-oh!”.
19/f/cali
I’m pressing X to doubt.
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.
Everyone switch to IRC, quick!
mIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.
As someone who has most of her socialization on IRC now… Eww, mIRC is proprietary and for Windows. Maybe it’s just me having learned about IRC only a couple years ago and thus not having a sentimental attachment, but why use it if you have open-source ones like Hexchat, Irssi or Weechat?
For me, mIRC had a clunky but useful script editor included that 14 year old me spent countless hours creating little chatbots with
I used mIRC for years, but as the days have marched on, XChat replaced it, and then irssi, and finally weechat on SSH.
. -|- | .-'~~~`-. .' `. |211-945-323| | | | | \\| |// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^19699113… RIP
6751 6686 here… I’m glad it’s finally getting a burial since it died like 20 years ago.
Was 216845. I’m old.
- Thanks for the memories.
Uh-oh!
304141822
Farewell o7
sadly annexed by VK goodbye, icq lasted longer than the first ever.
The last uh has been oh’d
23436242, signing out
I’m pleasantly surprised the number of replies on Lemmy saying they used this service. It’s nice to know that there are some old people on here, like me :)
