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I hadn't used ICQ since the 90s and maybe early 2000s. The screenshots of ICQ New on the site certainly look quite similar to Whatsapp Web. I'm kind of surprise
by godot 7y ago
I hadn't used ICQ since the 90s and maybe early 2000s. The screenshots of ICQ New on the site certainly look quite similar to Whatsapp Web. I'm kind of surprised that there's active development in ICQ all these years even though I don't know of anyone personally who still uses it. Maybe ICQ is active in other parts of the world?
- iso1631 7y agoIt looks like a brand new project from scratch, with just the name in common with ICQ of the 90s. Certainly I can't see a way of logging in with my icq number from back then
- abthomson 7y agoIn the upper right there's a "login with password" link. I logged in successfully using my old number there just now.
- iso1631 7y agoInteresting. Fairly sure I remember my password from back then, but that doesn't work. I get a "you cannot recover the password", maybe my account was too unused for too long
- Tuna-Fish 7y agoIt has just been updated a lot between then and now. While ICQ died out in the west, it has consistently been the largest IM app in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe.
- serf 7y ago>I don't know of anyone personally who still uses it. I always liked ICQ, but there was always a tad bit of friction remembering huge strings of numbers as practical IDs, and the naming schemes came way later. 11984431 or whatever doesn't roll off the tongue very well.
- jbergknoff 7y agoI have no idea how, but my 8 digit ICQ user id immediately springs to mind, 20 years later. The mind works in mysterious ways.
- thejsa 7y agoMysterious ways indeed... Somehow I remember and can recite a 16 character hex ID for my account on Flipnote Studio on the Nintendo DS
- wiradikusuma 7y agoFCKGW, ring a bell?
- derwiki 7y agoWhat a weird thing to connect with a stranger on. I typed that so many times in my teenage years...
- karatestomp 7y agoChecking in, also 8 digits, still memorized all these years later.
- sshagent 7y agoAs do i. 32939464 probably haven't touched it in near 20 years ( guessing about 18 ). And whilst nostalgia is great, it would be great to free up memory sections of the brain like this :)
- xnx 7y ago"591007" does that make me and ICQ OG?
- TheAdamist 7y agoMine was six digit as well,but can't remember it other than the first digit was 8, so a bit after you signed up.
- pferde 7y agoI used it almost daily up until maybe two years ago, when they finally cut off third-party client programs.