19699113… RIP
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?
I used mIRC for years, but as the days have marched on, XChat replaced it, and then irssi, and finally weechat on SSH.
For me, mIRC had a clunky but useful script editor included that 14 year old me spent countless hours creating little chatbots with
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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.
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.
19/f/cali
I’m pressing X to doubt.
a/s/l
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!”.
I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc
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! "
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.
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.
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.
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Farewell o7
Uh-oh!
Was 216845. I’m old.
- Thanks for the memories.
6751 6686 here… I’m glad it’s finally getting a burial since it died like 20 years ago.
23436242, signing out
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