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It was commercial, wasn't it? And only worked on Windows? IRC was the open alternative.
by incompatible 2y ago
It was commercial, wasn't it? And only worked on Windows? IRC was the open alternative.
- garciasn 2y agoI had a Linux ICQ client in 1997/1998.
- derwiki 2y agoWith the built-in option to “hijack account”, when sending a password longer than 8 characters would log you in, but official clients capped you at 8 characters.
- Suppafly 2y agoI had to recompile some cmd line one from the linux sources to work from my home directory on my universities unix system ~2000. Back before everyone in college had laptops.
- neffo 2y agoThis was the 90s, so I guess reverse engineering the protocols was simple. There were even Amiga clients of it, like stricq.
- niutech 2y agoIt was the OSCAR protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol