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Re: What happened to ICQ?

RimaJungleGirl — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:08:39 -0000

I use to use the random chat all the time and had quite a bit of fun with it. I just downloaded ICQ and it appears to be no more??? What a disappointment! My new number is 557379915

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Rob Mitchell — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:16:41 -0000

I loved ICQ, it was such a massive part of my growing up from 1998 until around 2003 when I migrated to MSN as no one was on ICQ any longer. Its quite erie looking through my contacts list and seeing all these accounts that used to be online every night but most won't have been used for 6/7 years and probably forgotten about completely.

Its very strange how I too remember my ICQ numbers ( I have two, 27224550 and 56376571)

I will always be thankful to ICQ for helping me meet so many nice people and also for letting me chat to and find my first proper long term girlfriend!

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Carson Jones — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:02:44 -0000

I haven't used ICQ in years, but I was very proud of my old UIN (103091) back in the day. It's sitting there dormant with a rather stupid info message. I think I probably stopped using it around 2001 or 2002.

Anyway, it being such a low number, Russian hackers got a hold of it in 2000 or so for a while before I was able to get the account back. I remember arguing with the guy on a different UIN for a while before they added the option to retrieve to the e-mail address you signed up with. Funny how I was so upset about a 6 digit number back then.

I thought about retrieving the password and logging in to see if anyone was still on there, but the ICQ website won't allow me to retrieve for some reason.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Kai — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:16:50 -0000

"PS my ICQ number was 165361. That means I was the 65,361’st person to use it. I haven’t turned it on for years, though."

Dude, try to remember that your ICQ number is
ICQ#: 16 3 5 61

Nick Name: scobleizer
Name: Robert Scoble
Home Address: USA Santa Clara
Phone: +1 (408) 551-0481
Work Address: USA Millbrae
Phone: +1 (650) 697-5263
Fax: +1 (650) 292-2147
Company: UserLand Software
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Birth Date: 18/01/1965
About:
Feel free to say hi, but I like it a lot more when you start off by asking me a question.

Do not mistake your number with mine;)
16 5 3 61

Best regards,
Kai

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Peter — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:21:29 -0000

Well, I also miss ICQ dearly. I had many friends on ICQ in the mid/late 90's. It was a great community. I think MSN killed it. It's sad but for me MSN for some reason doesn't have the same geographical distribution as ICQ. There seems to be less incentive to "reach out"?

Re: What happened to ICQ?

ChampDog — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:44:53 -0000

ICQ was my favorite long time ago. I miss ICQ. Therefore, I decided to install it and give it a try. After I installed it, the UI really disappointed me. The fonts are too small. I'm not sure if I've already get used to YM or MSN, the UI is no longer user friendly as it used to be. Less than 10 minutes, I actually uninstall it. I'm very sad... ICQ once was a leader.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

trademark registration — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:23:18 -0000

ICQ is dead? :( I remember when my older brother showed me ICQ and i was amazed with instant messaging. I was but a little kid back in grade school.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

dnipro68 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:43:33 -0000

Jabber replace icq no ? But with meebo or pidgin you can use mamy IM système msn, yahoo gtalk etc.. so icq is just one more but you have no voip and no video and I read spam !!!
So icq is dead ! read wikipedia

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Shadowdane — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:42:31 -0000

Yah I used ICQ for years, it was my first IM client as well. I can't believe I still remember the number (1152211) as it has probably been at least 5 years since I last signed into it. Not an extremely low number like some of you, but hell it was easy to remember. :)

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Gui Cremerius — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:18:44 -0000

Wow... ICQ, I still log in with my 151507 number every time I fire Trillian up, but don't have any contacts there anymore. I guess MS did with ICQ what they also did with Netscape (funny, both with AOL now), they built MSN into the OS and killed ICQ... all my friends moved over years ago.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Tony — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:58:06 -0000

Been using it since I do not know when. My number is 196835.

I do not use the client. I use Kopete under OpenSUSE..

Never chat on it anymore, just keep the connection/account alive, sentimental, I suppose..

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Fenix — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:21:07 -0000

I still use icq :)
The regular client got too bloated though.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Duncan — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:55:59 -0000

I used ICQ for years, then I think it ended like most people when all the requests you would receive where spammers and fools. I actually found a long lost friend over icq and now keep in iregular contact with him over the occasional message.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

bluegray — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:38:38 -0000

Tony, what transport server are you using? The one I'm using, is very slow these days.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Tom Morris — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:31:41 -0000

This post reminded me to add my ICQ account to my Adium. I now have Jabber (aka. Google Talk), MSN, AIM, Yahoo and LiveJournal. I'm waiting for Jabber and OpenID to merge with FOAF and microformats and then we can have the complete open identity stack...

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Tony — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:56:40 -0000

The numbers were so more than 1 person could have the same user name. Thats what I hated about the others you had to have username987439876239767 which is worse than a number because you weren't the first one there. I think popular consensus is once aol got hold of it (also happened with winamp) they wrecked it bought in adverts slowed servers down did all sorts of terrible things which made people jump to msn. Same thing happened to Skype once ebay got hold of it before that it was trim taught and terrific now it has more bugs the vista.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

SarekOfVulcan — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:54:17 -0000

I still sign on to ICQ through Pidgin, but I haven't had the client installed for at least a decade. It's a fairly low number -- 736xxxx -- but nearly as low as some upthread. :-)

When I signed up for AIM back in 97 or so, I picked a name reflecting my MVP status, because I didn't think any of the other MVPs would be so declasse as to actually use AOL. :-)

Re: What happened to ICQ?

macbeach — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:12:27 -0000

I didn't like being a number. ICQ also got bloated, and then more bloated. That they finally had to offer a "Lite" version was a good sign they had gone too far.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Jay Srinivasan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:53:46 -0000

ICQ? Reminds me of the college days, that program was awesome. Although, I too remember the tons of messages that I would receive while idle. I actually remember initially using it for live chat, and then the message feature kind of took of.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Johnny Sutherland — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:04:30 -0000

Funnily enough ICQ is rather popular here in Germany with the youth.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Simon — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:20:28 -0000

I stopped using ICQ a long long time ago.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Jonas — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:21:45 -0000

I do miss ICQ, the way you chat (with the instant typing) and windows that don't popup right away. Offline messaging was nice back then. The groups that came and went. (the ones you had to run a server yourself) ...
I too have a 6 digit number. But starting at 7. I had an older account but I forgot the number.

I stopped using it when 99% of my contacts used msn. And the contact i had on ICQ also had MSN.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Michael Clarke — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:48:05 -0000

I remember ICQ! About the only time I've slipped up badly with a message meant for one person that headed off to another, higher in the hierarchy. It was my major means of comms in 1997-98 but somehow just slipped away. My Facebook status feeds and Twitter seems to have taken over for me recently though it's been gone so long now, I'm not sure that they aren't just answering a different need.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

danshafer — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:39:06 -0000

Hey, Chris L, I resent you trying to lay claim to being an old fart around here. I gotta be one of the oldest. And I still use IM every day. Mostly I use AIM via either Fire (multi-protocol IM client for OS X) or iChat, but I am also logged on through Yahoo most days.

I don't use MSN. I never had more than one colleague who did, so it didn't seem worthwhile.

My wife and I use ICQ because nobody "out there" knows our numbers so we can talk to each other without having to let the family and mutual friends know we're online.

And I've come to like Google Chat as well, though it still needs a good bit of improvement. I don't Twitter or Pownce; I think my generation must have gotten passed by on that one. (Hell, I'm older than Winer!)

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Lhorentso Nurmi — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:04:25 -0000

A lot of folk in the adult enetrtainment industry use ICQ.

I recently signed up for that reason and got a number with dashes: 363-705-647