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yeah all my ICQ friends are gone except two guys and a German girl i know are the only reason why i even turn it on to say hi every now and then.

IM these days suck.
 
I wish MSN would finally get the "appear offline BUT can still talk to people" option finally going. I don't want to bother block everyone else just cause I want to only talk to one person and not bother with the rest.
 
Two things IMO:

1. ICQ turned in to a classic case of bloatware... seriously too many extra features that we don't f'n need... the fact that they have a light mode should tell you off the bat... wtf is all this other bullshit?

2. AOL bought them and deep sixed them... nuff said.
 
LakeEarth said:
I wish MSN would finally get the "appear offline BUT can still talk to people" option finally going. I don't want to bother block everyone else just cause I want to only talk to one person and not bother with the rest.
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Ditto. Somtimes you want to chat but at the same time there may be people on your list you dont really want to feel obliged to speak to.

On ICQ. ICQ was also my first instant messenger. Right after that I made the switch to MSN, Yahoo and AIM (Yes, all around the same time, friends were spread out among the programs forcing me to use them). I then made the switch to Trillian for a good while and then went back to MSN, this time as a primary. I just recently made the switch back to Trillian and feels a bit like old times.
 
Himuro said:
They have icq lite for the people that have trouble loading it because icq takes up lots of space. It's a basic version of icq, nothing more.
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Yeah they shouldn't have to have two version... there should be one... without all the extraneous shit that nobody wants or uses. ICQ use to be a quick light easy download.. small download footprint, small memory resources...

Now though...
 
I remember the heyday of ICQ, circa 1998-99. That was cool.

Anyone hear the song "www.nevergetoveryou" by Prozzak? It has samples of ICQ sounds in it. Cool song too, heh.
 
Error Macro said:
I remember the heyday of ICQ, circa 1998-99. That was cool.

Anyone hear the song "www.nevergetoveryou" by Prozzak? It has samples of ICQ sounds in it. Cool song too, heh.
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"Uh-oh!"

The best/worst part about ICQ was that it was so open to exploiting. i don't mean just the hack apps, but the simple fact that there were like 500 fields for personal information, IP address being one, and people felt compelled to fill them all out.
 
I used to love ICQ. Sending messages to people who arent on was just awesome. The wait in between messages and the chats compared to AIM sucked though.
 
I still have some friends on ICQ but I mostly use Skype nowadays. I communicate with a lot of people from Europe, and I don't even know anyone (who I'm friends with) who uses exclusively AIM or MSNM.

ICQ is most certainly bloatware - instead of focusing on improving the key features such as messaging, voice and file transfer, they just bloated it with useless crap.
 
I use msn now cause everyone uses it here
and msn sucks

Why is there no offline messaging? WHY???
And why does everyone have a name that likes half the width of my screen? WHY??
 
I'm still using ICQ and still have a few people online. My contact list must be at least 90% filled with people who never go on it though.

The only real reason I'm keeping it is because I have a uber low 5 digit UIN that starts with a 2! Girls dig that.
 
I haven't used ICQ in 4 years, yet oddly remember my ICQ#: 91982510

Yup. When it comes to important things, nothing escapes this noggin of mine.

Like most Canadians, I've been using msn for a really, really long time. Nearly every up here switched to msn sometime in 2001-2002. No one I know offline uses AOL except for a couple nerds like me.
 
In highschool I used to search for people with Chemistry in their interests, then send out messages to like 50+ people to help with my homework. With good person management I could get them all working on different parts of my assignment at the same time, heheh.
 
I haven't used ICQ in at least 2 years mite be 3 but I still know my number, 53710871 . It was all I used back in the day whilst playing Ultima Online.
 
ICQ was pretty cool back in the day. The random chat thing was always good for entertainment when I wanted distraction from college.
 
I haven't used ICQ since probably 2000, but I do have fond memories of it. There was a point in my life when ICQ was the only thing I cared about when I has at home.

And I also remember my number: 77547177
 
I don't.

My list used to be 100+ as well.

Now if I really want to waste time trying to converse with a brick wall, I just try to talk on dc++. Usually only takes 10 minutes of yelling at Nintendo fans for me to remember why I try to avoid wasting time in online interaction.
 
i use trillian and my list of ICQ contacts is still second only to my AIM list despite not adding anyone in years to the ICQ list...
pretty much everyone on my ICQ list uses trillian too...

i dunno if i could ever forget my icq# (1069537)

i remember the good 'ol days when i had like 700 contacts
 
ICQ was awesome. My number was 9971083. I stopped using it when MSN started taking over. I still log in once in a while. It's still a better chat program than most.
 
the intrawebs started sucking when it went mainstream, am i rite?

But seriously, somehow the ICQ days seem so much better than today's MSN chats.
 
Yeah, ICQ was great while it lasted. My number was 2363103. I can't believe that I can still recall it to this day.

What the hell happened to it, btw?

Although, one thing I like about MSN that ICQ never had, is that you can actually have long ass quotes to your name which is pretty cool since I can broadcast my weirdass opinions to my entire list....
 
1938621. I resisted getting ICQ for the longest time. I didn't want my gang of friends from a web chat (Alamak) to lose contact. I was right, we did. Oh well.
 
My number was something like 23x xxx

I was pretty early on it.

I miss ICQ, I think there needs to be an IM shakeup...
 
Yahoo Messenger comes closest to ICQ. You can offline message and be visible to only those you want to be visible too. Invisible to the rest. It also has a message archive you can enable. Has voice (now voip) and video chat as well.

Still I miss ICQ and use it only once in awhile for those who are still on it. It's still an awesome IM program after all this time. Now they should really update it with a smaller footprint and more speed.
 
I used to have Futurama's professor say 'Sweet, sweet candy' whenever I got a message. Funnily enough, it never got annoying. 15232633
 
hgplayer1 said:
wow no mention of Yahoo messenger?
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I like Yahoo's webcam image quality, the best I've seen... What happened to the adult user-created chatrooms? Have they been removed or something?

ICQ was good back in the day, but it quickly became bloatware as many have mentioned and I'm glad it died... I rarely ever use any instant messaging these days, but when/if I do it's only MSN, I just hop on once every couple of days and try to leave/hide as quickly as possible before someone hooks me up with a long time-wasting conversation.

We use Windows Messenger at work, but the list has only company employees on it.
 
I don't remember my nickname.

I don't remember my number.

Hell if I'm ever going to remember my password.

I wonder if I look through some really old emails I could find all that info? Shit, I just remembered they were probably sent to my Yahoo mail account at the time, which, since I didn't use for a while, all the emails were deleted. Damn you, Yahoo!
 
As part of the Canadian population, and having entered high school right at the start of the turnover to MSN, I've more or less used it exclusively. The entire campus uses MSN...the thought of using ICQ or any other IM service is more or less a foreign one.

I do have times where I would rather only talk to one or two people, but I don't have enough people on my list who talk to me very often that I have any use for offline messaging.

Edit: Oh, and I am a big of an abuser of the insanely long naming allowance on MSN. I'm currently counting down to the premieres of Veronica Mars (2 Weeks), Arrested Development (5 Days) and Lost (ONE WEEK!), as well as the release date of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (65 Days).
 
Heh, my company uses ICQ for inner-office correspondence. I spend about half my day typing things back and forth. It beats the shit out of actually calling and talking to people.
 
I liked the fact that I could send a msg to someone that was offline and they would get it when they signed on rather than just, 'that person is offline, no send for you!'
 
slayn said:
I liked the fact that I could send a msg to someone that was offline and they would get it when they signed on rather than just, 'that person is offline, no send for you!'
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Yahoo Messenger
 
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