ICQ will stop working from June 26

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• insufferableninja@lemdro.id ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it didn’t even occur to me that ICQ was still around

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• Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Uh oh!

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  • 50MYT@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨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?)

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  • federalreverse@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, when we were young and dumb and didn’t mind chatting without even transport encryption.

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  • key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (Perhaps it was bundled with Windows?)

    As was the style at the time.

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