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ThatKomputerKat ,
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42442595 I was still logging in until it stopped working with Adium. It'd been a long time since I'd seen any of my contacts login at that point though. Just downloaded the official app and yeah. still a ghost town lol.

pirrrrrrrr ,

ICQ was still online!?!?!

I stopped using that shit like 25 years ago.
Thought died in the late 90's

ohlaph ,

Same. Wow

bus_factor ,

Russians kept using it, just like Brazilians kept Orkut alive for years.

snowday ,

I wonder how many old accounts I have from my childhood floating around, long forgotten, created well before the days of using a password manager

TrumpetX ,

2278311 🫡

nailbar ,
@nailbar@sopuli.xyz avatar

14204799 (I think) 👋

I've forgotten my password and never linked an email to the account.

To this day I still wonder if they have the old chat history stored.

maniajack ,

I got into my account the other day, it had a shit password from when I was a kid and no way for me to change it. Their web portal was barely functional.

bmeffer ,

409110

AlphaOmega ,

1698962 iirc

radicalautonomy ,

6725571

Toes ,
@Toes@ani.social avatar

I don't even remember my numbers.

Most of my friends used aim or msn anyways

Matombo ,

somethingsomething-323-945

Matombo ,

icq died a long time ago, with its soul, the xtras, ripped out it remained an empty husk, a zombie walking under its new master, a russion company desperatly trying to have their own whats app clone

rottingleaf ,

with its soul, the xtras

RE-ED TU-URN ... BLUTURN!

Matombo ,

Hastalavista, MÄÄÄH!

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Two wtf here.

One, icq was still online? I stopped using that one aim got popular and everyone had it.

And two, vk owns icq??

rottingleaf ,

VK bought it when it became completely irrelevant/

psmgx ,

Effective way for the GRU to trade info whilst overseas?

rottingleaf ,

I don't think even GRU is that stupid.

jpablo68 ,

I just logged with 77454405 and it still works. wow.

Dvixen ,
@Dvixen@lemmy.world avatar

245948 - buhbye!

Orbituary ,
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  1. RIP in peace.
DudeImMacGyver ,

TIL: ICQ was still around

ultratiem ,
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Yeah I stopped around the same time. But I didn’t know they were run by VK. That’s interesting.

bus_factor ,

They were acquired recently.

Mirabilis created ICQ. AOL bought Mirabilis in 1998. Russian investor DST (which soon became Mail.ru and later VK) bought ICQ from AOL in 2010, probably because Russians were among the few nationalities still using it. Russians were over 25% of the hits, and it was the biggest instant messenger in Russia at the time. They also own VKontakte, hence why they're directing people there.

Crackhappy ,
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Meanwhile IRC and Usenet are still doing fine.

Bishma OP ,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Those are protocols, so the servers/services that run than can come and go. XMPP, which was at least inspired by ICQ, will probably be around forever, similarly.

rottingleaf ,

OSCAR is a protocol too. And there were ICQ servers to run locally back then too. There also was some "ICQ for business" or similar.

I've also learned yesterday that people responsible for Escargot (MSN server) have another project, NINA, for AIM and ICQ.

So maybe these things will be reborn.

They seem to aim for implementing all of the AOL suite functionality. Maybe after they achieve that we'll see Xtraz and contact directory from ICQ working again. If that happens, I'm going to cry for a few hours. EDIT: or weeks.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Used that when playing UO with buddies. Damn, now I feel old.

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Fuuuuuuck... every once in awhile I'm like "I should bust out UO again!" But I can never recapture the magic that it once was for me.

moorey ,

4066088, still works too!

sunbeam60 ,

Earlier than mine, I was 7 digits, but started with a 7 IIRC.

MystikIncarnate ,

Okay, can we all acknowledge that ICQ died when they nuked pretty much all of the accounts for no good reason?

While it's true it's shutting down, it was effectively dead for years. This is just the death rattle.

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