ICQ will stop working on June 26. It’s encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.
I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn’t know anything of it still remained.
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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.
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Never forgot my number. I wonder if it’s still active.
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Forgot my password.
Been trying to work out what it was to login for years.
304141822 same here, I try it from time to time in case I remember, but the mail is no longer available anyway.
They removed all the accounts without a linked phone number. So even if you’d remembered your password, chances to log in are about zero.
Sheesh, didn’t know. Lost forever then.
They removed all the accounts without a linked phone number. So even if you’d remembered your password, chances to log in are about zero.
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Why do I still remember this number.
Because it’s important.
1441261, same the account had my college email which I no longer have access to for a reset :(
6479637 rip
And here I thought I was cool with my 8digit number starting with “1”
You’re cool
It was interesting how random people came to talk to you and were really trying to get to know you. I don’t think that would work in modern day internet.
I knew they were around because at times I randomly remembered my ICQ number and I tried logging in, but they won’t let you if you forgot your password.
Icq was bought a while ago and the buyer nuked the original user database. Not long ago I found my login info saved on an old zip drive and tried it. Was hoping my old buddies might still be there, hahahah.
Nope, icq as most remember it was toast maybe a decade ago.
234500080, I always liked my number.
Haven’t used it in over ten years, I thought it had already shut down :)
Uh oh
That used to scare the crap out of me when I had the volume up and wasn’t expecting a message!
Oh No, now it is even more useless that I still remember my number!
How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don’t remember what I did last week half the time.
I am autistic.
Seriously, though, diagnosed autistic and I remember numbers exceptionally well.
- ICQ number 6725571
- Pi to 260 decimal places
- My ex-wife’s driver’s license number
- My 11-digit Blockbuster employee numbers from the two stores I used to work at
- The nine-digit employee numbers of a few employees under me from when I worked at Six Flags in 1994
For some reason, I never used the “save login info” feature as a teen, I didn’t trust that it was safe, so I typed it every time. Hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years. So even after 15 years or so of not using it, I still remember.
For some reason short strings of digits have always stuck really well in my memory. I still remember my high school locker combos and every phone number I’ve ever had.
813-823-6615 was my childhood number until I was 10. My mom sang it to us. Never thought to remember my lock code. 0-31-10.
I taught my kids our address and my telephone number through songs when they were little. Music makes learning abstract things like that way easier. I teach the quadratic formula wihh a song to my Algebra students every year.
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I used mine in my mail signature for a while and I’ve kept all my emails since late 90s.
Fair. My current mail signature has a dead link in it and I can’t be bothered to do anything about it.
What’s with your pride in being complacent?
What are you talking about?
“I can’t be bothered to update my signature” - you could fix it in half the time it takes to post here. It’s just a weird… I’d say flex, but it’s the opposite. It’s like a sag or deflation.
I could, but I don’t feel like it. Why do you care?
For the same reasons you do not care.
I don’t even remember my numbers.
Most of my friends used aim or msn anyways
1808142… I’m practically a boomer with that.
- I thought it had closed yeeeears ago.
19737181… I recall it quicker than my phone number but haven’t used it in over two decades.
Same here lol. Sup 8 digit buddy?
Life is great, even without ICQ!
Used that when playing UO with buddies. Damn, now I feel old.
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.
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409110
1698962 iirc
6725571
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.
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.
