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>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 pra
by 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.
- konart 7y ago344838 But Mail.ru deleted old accounts. So...
- mz00 7y agomine was 522826 but has probably been lost to the sands of time
- thaumasiotes 7y agoWhen I would reserve a book at the public library, I'd get an automated phone call when the book arrived. The phone call always began by listing off my library card number. So I know my first library card number was 1000102772901. I had to replace the card a few times, getting new numbers, but I only ever remembered the first one.
- tasuki 7y agoSame for me. I don't remember virtually any other numbers.
- carlob 7y agoThat's funny! I tried to remember it and typed what came to mind first into gmail and I got a hit from an archived GoogleTalk session from 2006. Layers upon layers of computer archeology.
- Semaphor 7y ago72873246. Can’t remember my other number (same length, also starting with 7) but I have saved it somewhere. It was the main messenger in Germany when I grew up. It’s really not harder than remembering a phone number, and back then, I used it more often. On the topic of New ICQ, it looks like all those other multi-user messengers. I wish everyone would switch to Jabber were there are clients for people who don’t have group messaging as their primary use case.
- deniska 7y agoIt was widely popular in Russia perhaps because '11984431' rolls off the tongue much better than explaining a string of latin characters like "s like dollar sign, not like the Russian s".
- IndrekR 7y agoSame in China with numbers: https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websites-secret-meaning-urls https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websit...