It's amazing to me how many online friends I've lost contact with due people moving on from ICQ and AIM. Back in the early 2000s, due to online gaming and hobb

It's amazing to me how many online friends I've lost contact with due people moving on from ICQ and AIM. Back in the early 2000s, due to online gaming and hobby software development, Trillian would regularly have around 50 people online. These were not people I "collected", they were people I actively talked to for a variety of reasons: gaming, side projects, etc. But then I got a job. Got a girlfriend. Got married. I got busy. I stopped logging in for about 4-5 years. Around 2010 I was reminiscing a bit about the old times, and I reinstalled everything. There were only 3 people on AIM. Zero on ICQ. Oh well.