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Somewhere ICQ is rolling in its grave.
by hkmurakami 9y ago
Somewhere ICQ is rolling in its grave.
- paulie_a 9y agoFacebook has a messaging app problem, same as Google. Between those two companies they must have a dozen shitty apps, when icq solved that problem 10-15 years ago. I still remember my icq number: 5588776
- chime 9y agoIf you remember your password, you can still log into it at https://web.icq.com/ https://web.icq.com/
- jackmodern 9y agototally logged into my account for the first time in like 16-17 years. can't believe the service is still up and running, and that I haven't changed my default password since then... lol 73117649 :D
- halflings 9y agoAgreed for Google, but what are facebooks "dozen shitty [messaging] apps"? They own Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram. Pretty much all relevant DM vectors apart from Snapchat and twitter.
- _jsdw 9y agoJust saw this, and took a random stab at my number and password and to my massive surprise I got in! 50530999 My username still reflects when I played starsiege as a kid at some silly time over a dial up modem.. Wow!
- andirk 9y ago5251730
- datashaman 9y agoThe last release of ICQ was in 2016. Not in the grave yet. :)
- doomlaser 9y agoSomewhere, some group of friends is still hanging out in an IRC channel that started in 1998
- lolmaxos 9y agoWell I still haven't seen a modern chat application which gives all the IRC features. Its like they have deliberately removed all the good features.
- ekianjo 9y agoreal time typing in icq was pretty cool. I wonder if any other system ever replicated that?
- taneq 9y agoytalk :P
- starsinspace 9y agoYeah, and one of the most important features of IRC being "lightweight native client, integrating seamlessly with my environment". Somehow, these "modern" chat systems just can't do that.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoBecause that would require opening up either the client or the protocol, both of which are anathema to people trying to make money from those systems.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoBeing optimized for communication and being optimized for making money are mutually exclusive goals.
- taylorexpander 9y agoI’ve never used IRC before, so I’m honestly curious, what features does IRC have that Slack(/Discord) don’t or can’t have through extensions like bots and plugins?