ICQ was my first foray into meeting girls online, back when that was a really weird thing to do.
Post a/s/l to pay respects.
10/f/935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC, 20535
Now I’m no American, but something smells FBIish about that address.
There’s a quote that came from ICQ’s heyday that I had in mind when I wrote that:
“The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and little girls are FBI agents.”
We need to revise that for Lemmy.
“Lemmy: Where men are men, and men are women, and women are men, and I think we’ve got a few women who were born women, and also there’s a whole bunch of new genders as well, and no genders at all, and that’s all cool with most of us.”
It’s a mouthful and might not read well on a t-shirt, but we can workshop it.
You forgot the FBI agents.
Everyone switch to IRC, quick!
mIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.
Mostly for tech communities but yes. Libera.Chat seems to be the go-to network.
Uh-oh!
how is everyone remembering their ICQ number?
I forgot mine 5 minutes after adding it to Trillian.
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I still remember my number. It was 7 digits.
UH OH!
With ICQ I learned the social skills that I couldn’t on the real world because I had been bullied to near death. I talked to random people all over the world, learned that I could talk to girls without having to feel like shit.
Used it so much, and with volume up, my upstairs neighbor thought I was watching the teletubbies all the time because of the UH OH!
Met my first girlfriend this way, she was in Mexico, I was in Europe. Moved to Mexico to marry her (bad idea, she was rather manipulativr and a huge cheater as it turned out, got divorced) and lived in Mexico for samn near 20 years.
To say that ICQ had a big positive influence in my life is an understatement, it changed my life beyond anything I’ve ever had before.
Thank you.
It’s with the aim and yahoo messenger in the clouds now. Good bye Trillian profile I had back in the late 90s, you were too beautiful for this world.
6751 6686 here… I’m glad it’s finally getting a burial since it died like 20 years ago.
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Farewell o7
23436242, signing out
- Thanks for the memories.
783056 good bye ICQ
19699113… RIP
RIP ICQ
