Holy shit,I didn't even know it was still available
this post was submitted on 25 May 2024
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Nooooooo. I can't remember my ICQ, maybe I still have it somewhere, but this is still sad.
At least IRC is still going.
Edit:
In its heyday, ICQ boasted over 100 million users on its platform, which was a remarkable achievement at the time. In 2010, ICQ was purchased by Mail.ru (now VK), who has since owned the products as it declined in use.
Today, ICQ announced that they are shutting down on June 26th, recommending that users switch to VK Messenger and Workspace.
So apparently Russian business killed it.
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Yahoo! Messenger shut down in 2018
MSN Messenger discontinued in 2013
AIM Messenger discontinued in 2017
ICQ was really the last of them and it's ending quite an era. This is, officially, the end of the Messengers.
Damn, thinking about the msn messenger brings me back to such simpler and happier times
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Aol instant messenger messenger
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My icq# was 4706179 and I doubt I'll ever forget it.
It’s been part of VKontakte since 2010. Good riddance I guess.
Loved it back in the day.
Man, those were the days...
RIP ICQ, you were a real one
I can still hear that uh oh
the weirdest location I ever heard that sound was a random small supermarket that had that sound as the scan-bleep-sound of the register barcode scanner.
Every item that was getting pulled over it, went "uh oh"
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Damn i still say that like that sometimes, and i totally forgot where it came from
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I assume today it is more a compete OS with games, browser, officer suite, video editing, ... than just a messenger? It sure would be if I extrapolate my experience from back in the day.
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fudge
OG instant messenger 🫡 survived long enough.
Damn, it was still running? Not that I still remember my username or password, but damn...
I'm not sure if it ever changed but usernames used to be numbers.
Mine started with a 3 and was 8 digits long