The previous thread did so well, why not another?

the previous thread did so well, why not another?

old men of Sup Forums, report in

i do miss icq.

ICQ>everything else

what do you miss most about ICQ?

My ICQ got hacked years ago, but i did get about 10 years of use out of it.

Played UO (pre Trammel bs) > 19093948

I don't know why my ICQ # is ingrained in my head, but it is, and seemingly forever shall be. I was always envious of the 7 digit ICQers, since i didn't get mine until 1997

to be honest? The typewriter noise I could set when I would Instant message people. Second favorite feature was seeing what someone typing at the same time they were inputting it. None of this, write a paragraph and all I see is ... shit. I see what they were really thinking, not bullshit persona they were pretending to impress.

Oh, man. Let me see if I can remember my old ICQ id digits...

I miss the random chat feature. So many awesome conversations started that way.

I had a 5 digit, when did you join?

also
>mfw 1997 was 21 years ago

Im OP of the other thread, I didnt see this one and ended up making a new one, sorry

thread/757531430

1997

Hooking the computer up to our 56k dialup line. Setting NewsRover to scan the alt.binaries.porn groups to download thousands of pics overnight. Getting up early and scanning through all those posts to dig out "the good stuff."

Fuck yeah.

I appreciate your candor, maybe we can use this for ICQ appreciation then. not trying to hijack your shit my main guy

I'm trying to remember mine, I'll add you if I find the passwd

that was amazing, and taken for granted at the time, that feature would be gone from absolutely every other IM in the future

don't bother, i lost access to 19093948 - some chinese hackers i believe.

I was the original "The Freshmaker" , ah well, ah well

kids now would use this against people. let's be honest. live typing on ICQ was sexy because you could see what your school crush was actually thinking without her having to say it. but now, it would just be screenshot and sent as a shame worse than nudes

when was the last time you used ICQ?

np, here or there, just want to continue

probably 2008 or so if i was to guess.

i still remember when they added the 'wikipedia' feature where it would highlight things you were typing and link it to the wikipedia article if you wanted, and i was like "wtf is this wikipedia crap"

Auw Auw

I haven't used ICQ since maybe 2004, I don't know how I feel about the wikipedia thing because that means they were filtering your convos. I do remember freaking my AOL friends out because ICQ and AIM used the same servers, and you could cross-communicate using just ICQ

jesus you sound like a beta fgt. "school crush" get the fuck out of here. That shit was for AIM.

AIM wasn't widely used in Canada at the time, where I'm from. MSN and ICQ. back then, if you got a girl's MSN that was like getting their number. but, if you got their ICQ that was like snap is now.

this

I had a 5 digits one, but i dont remember the year, I made one in 2003 again this one I still remember the numbers 216-935-098, stoped using when MSN hit

I had a 6-digit. Or was it 7? I think 6 for some reason. I have no record of it any more.

When I started using ICQ, the first IM client, I thought, "why the FUCK would I want people to know if I'm online?! That's fucking stupid!"

Wow. :)

how old are you? I had a 5 digit, but I'm only 32

zoopalola

nice trips, what else do you miss?

28, I think my first one was in 97

Eh. Youthful memories, but wouldn’t want to drive a car that doesn’t go over 20 mph, for nostalgia sake. SLOOOOOOW.

the cringy awful nicknames from back in the day, thinking back makes me bite my fist

tfw I remember when MSN added video chat but ICQ still had single frame video
feels bad man, I lost out on a lot of nudes

Got my 6 digi from someone shilling it in og diablo chat