It also didn't work for people who were behind NAT, I think, and leaked the remote parties IP... so there may have been many people who used ICQ at that time bu

It also didn't work for people who were behind NAT, I think, and leaked the remote parties IP... so there may have been many people who used ICQ at that time but never saw that functionality. I like it, and to this day there are some friends that I talk to using talk by sshing into a common host, just because the realtime typing is nicer.