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My UIN is still etched into my memory. 1803929.
Back in like 2006, I’ve made an account for myself. A bot added me, asked how big my dick is, and then I’ve never used it again
Check your DMs
Rip. You were always better than msm message.
I really liked the design of the underlying protocol (OSCAR, also used by AIM). It was a lot of fun to implement in a 3rd party client and I learned so much about networking and application protocols from the experience. It contributed immensely my career path.
It was my first introduction to the type-length-value concept over the network, seemed radically different from the text only IRC protocol that I knew back then. I remember how fun it was to write an elegant parser for the ICQ messaging, and how I ended up on somewhat a DOM model where I converted the on-wire format into series of nested objects. Not the most efficient idea, but it was neat.
The king has died, long live the shit we have now?
You mean MSN messenger doesn't exist anymore?!?
Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we've got.
Nobody cares about Skype anymore as much. VK Messenger, which is ICQ's successor, looks like trash. Telegram used to be very great but did take some morally questionable steps, yet still gives the user an awful lot of power. Zoom is garbage. Microsoft Teams is garbage. Facebook Messenger is garbage.
So if I had to pick, Discord and Telegram is the best we've got now.
I sadly agree with you.
IRC? Matrix? XMPP?
These three are still the best bet.
I made the observation last week at work. As my teams starts to move from Slack to (ahem) Teams, it’s worth noting that the internal IRC still works.
Slack?
Slack went AI retard.
signal? 🤷♂️
Groups etc. are not the same there, specifically for privacy/encryption reasons.
Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we've got.
That's amazingly depressing.
- About a decade ago I tried so hard to sign in but couldn’t guess my password and didn’t have access to my original email. Nothing is permanent…
TIL ICQ was still going.
Same here. LOL!
We three!
Uh oh!
I remember when they first introduced the live chat feature.
You could literally watch the other person type something out, erase their mistakes and correct it in real time.
That shit blew my mind as a kid.
RIP one of the most enjoyable messengers I ever used 🫡
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