Uh oh!
ICQ will stop working from June 26
Submitted 11 months ago by bot@lemmy.smeargle.fans [bot] to hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows
Comments
Die4Ever@programming.dev 11 months ago
50MYT@aussie.zone 11 months ago
The dumb kid that I was when I discovered you could change the sounds in windows…
I set everything to that sound.
Windows starts up? Uh oh!
Opens application? Uh oh!
Closes application? Uh oh!
Changes setting? Uh oh!
It got annoying real quick.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I used ICQ quite a bit in its glory times. I remember that people eventually shifted to MSN, but I don’t quite remember why. (Perhaps it was bundled with Windows?)
federalreverse@feddit.de 11 months ago
Yeah, when we were young and dumb and didn’t mind chatting without even transport encryption.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 11 months ago
Most people in my circle moved to AIM with some on MSN and one or two weirdos on Yahoo. The ability to have a fun username maybe contributed. Did ICQ let you set an away status with melodramatic lyrics? I remember that being an important feature in the others.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
(Perhaps it was bundled with Windows?)
As was the style at the time.
insufferableninja@lemdro.id 11 months ago
it didn’t even occur to me that ICQ was still around