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Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)

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[-] schwim@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

24546982

[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

9787393

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[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

19699113... RIP

[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

237216938 logging off.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

sadly annexed by VK goodbye, icq lasted longer than the first ever.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Weird how i still remember my number... and useless now, 'cept maybe for passwords.

So long 104034239.

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[-] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

RIP 23344084

[-] pubertthefat@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] lipilee@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

29533018 :'-)

[-] Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

174695655 says goodbye 👋

[-] AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com 1 points 5 months ago

85453462 . Burned into my memory forever.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

23217791 is gone now

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Here Lies ICQ, a better alternative to AOL Instant Messanger

1996 to 2024

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] genuineparts@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

99372211 out

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

393027090 .

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Didn't know this was still around, wow.

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