- About a decade ago I tried so hard to sign in but couldn’t guess my password and didn’t have access to my original email. Nothing is permanent…
Back in like 2006, I’ve made an account for myself. A bot added me, asked how big my dick is, and then I’ve never used it again
Check your DMs
Holy shit,I didn’t even know it was still available
I seek you. so clever…
The king has died, long live the shit we have now?
Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we’ve got.
Nobody cares about Skype anymore as much. VK Messenger, which is ICQ’s successor, looks like trash. Telegram used to be very great but did take some morally questionable steps, yet still gives the user an awful lot of power. Zoom is garbage. Microsoft Teams is garbage. Facebook Messenger is garbage.
So if I had to pick, Discord and Telegram is the best we’ve got now.
signal? 🤷♂️
Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we’ve got.
That’s amazingly depressing.
IRC? Matrix? XMPP?
I sadly agree with you.
Slack?
Slack went AI retard.
You mean MSN messenger doesn’t exist anymore?!?
TIL ICQ was still going.
Same here. LOL!
We three!
I remember when they first introduced the live chat feature.
You could literally watch the other person type something out, erase their mistakes and correct it in real time.
That shit blew my mind as a kid.
RIP one of the most enjoyable messengers I ever used 🫡
I assume today it is more a compete OS with games, browser, officer suite, video editing, … than just a messenger? It sure would be if I extrapolate my experience from back in the day.
I really liked the design of the underlying protocol (OSCAR, also used BY AIM). It was a lot of fun to implement in a 3rd party client and I learned so much about networking and application protocols from the experience. It contributed immensely my career path.
It was my first introduction to the type-length-value concept over the network, seemed radically different from the text only IRC protocol that I knew back then. I remember how fun it was to write an elegant parser for the ICQ messaging, and how I ended up on somewhat a DOM model where I converted the on-wire format into series of nested objects. Not the most efficient idea, but it was neat.
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Uh oh!
Rip. You were always better than msm message.
I can still hear that uh oh
Ok but only because of that prozzac song lol
the weirdest location I ever heard that sound was a random small supermarket that had that sound as the scan-bleep-sound of the register barcode scanner.
Every item that was getting pulled over it, went “uh oh”
If I’d work there I’d probably get fired for destroying that.
yup. it was already quite hard to stay calm during the short time I had to queue
Damn i still say that like that sometimes, and i totally forgot where it came from
RIP ICQ, you were a real one
Man, those were the days…