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The numbers.
by nx 18y ago
The numbers.
- dan_sim 18y agoYeah! When I wrote the Ask HN, I totally forgot about it. But now that I remember, it hurts!
- Jasber 18y agoI thought the numbers were one of the things that made it fun. Having a low ICQ number showed you were an early adopter, much like having a short URL or twitter name.
- andrewljohnson 18y agoYeah, it made it fun for the early adopters, and less fun for everyone else. That's not much of a strategy, considering how few early adopters there are.
- mseebach 18y agoYeah, fun for the million or so first users, not so much for the next 2 billion. I specifically remember hating those numbers (because I always forgot mine) and being spitefully relieved to switch to MSN Messenger when that came out.
- there 18y agojust like giving out an old compuserve e-mail address.
- seraph321 18y agoyeah, it was all those 0's and 1's. They were in the wrong order!
- wlievens 18y agoI actually liked the numbers, even remembered mine years after stopping to use ICQ.