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Once in the times where ICQ was king, I somehow got a pal from Denmark. Once he sent me a letter with a CD of a game called Morrowind. But it never ran on my o

Once in the times where ICQ was king, I somehow got a pal from Denmark. Once he sent me a letter with a CD of a game called Morrowind. But it never ran on my old, old even for that time's reckoning computer. But I was pretty sure it was about jet fighters. With a multiplayer component. The CD is long, long gone, and so is the contact. But I still remember it and my distraught over the years to see this company with an ugly name - Bethesda, really? - STEAL this game's name and make any and all references of the original, true Morrowind in my mind, disappear from the web. To this day I bear a grudge against the ES series and won't play it. Name stealers. ...Fuzzy memories are a hell of a beast.

emteycz 5y ago
Could you be more specific, e. g. approx year? Perhaps the collective mind knows...
aasasd 5y ago
Perhaps this was an instance of “Don't mind the case, I lost the original one so the case is from MW”.
rkagerer 5y ago
I liked ICQ (before it was bastardized) a lot better than chat clients that came after. You could control your visibility by person or group. You could actually search your history and carry it with you over the eons. It was lightweight, fairly unobtrusive and ad-free.
- JackGreyhat 5y ago
  And it had a sort of "live chat" function. You could see your conversation partner's keystrokes in real-time, including typos and corrections. This has, as far as I know, never been introduced in other chat clients...
  - boogies 5y ago
    There was/is Unix talk(1).
  - dunham 5y ago
    That’s how it worked on dial up BBSs too. But it was one buffer with a convention of entering two newlines when you were done typing.
- boogies 5y ago
  > You could actually search your history and carry it with you over the eons. It was lightweight, fairly unobtrusive and ad-free. All of that is still true of the chat protocol that came before and still exists, IRC.
syntheticnature 5y ago
I know this won't matter to your fuzzy memories, having a few similar ones myself. That said, Morrowind is a province in the game, that was named in TES: Arena, released in 1994. ICQ was released in 1996. In-game maps in Arena show it: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Maps https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Maps (topmost one is a fan map, note) I did some searching for something similar, but the only thing I came upon even vaguely related would be The Morrow Project, a tabletop RPG.

emteycz 5y ago

Could you be more specific, e. g. approx year? Perhaps the collective mind knows...

aasasd 5y ago

Perhaps this was an instance of “Don't mind the case, I lost the original one so the case is from MW”.

rkagerer 5y ago

I liked ICQ (before it was bastardized) a lot better than chat clients that came after. You could control your visibility by person or group. You could actually search your history and carry it with you over the eons. It was lightweight, fairly unobtrusive and ad-free.

JackGreyhat 5y ago
And it had a sort of "live chat" function. You could see your conversation partner's keystrokes in real-time, including typos and corrections. This has, as far as I know, never been introduced in other chat clients...
- boogies 5y ago
  There was/is Unix talk(1).
- dunham 5y ago
  That’s how it worked on dial up BBSs too. But it was one buffer with a convention of entering two newlines when you were done typing.
boogies 5y ago
> You could actually search your history and carry it with you over the eons. It was lightweight, fairly unobtrusive and ad-free. All of that is still true of the chat protocol that came before and still exists, IRC.

syntheticnature 5y ago

I know this won't matter to your fuzzy memories, having a few similar ones myself. That said, Morrowind is a province in the game, that was named in TES: Arena, released in 1994. ICQ was released in 1996. In-game maps in Arena show it: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Maps https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Maps (topmost one is a fan map, note) I did some searching for something similar, but the only thing I came upon even vaguely related would be The Morrow Project, a tabletop RPG.