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ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn't know anything of it still remained.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 127 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I met my wife on ICQ. I had random chat turned on and she said, "Hello." That was a long time ago

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 107 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I met your wife there too.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So what?

We all did.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

asl?

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

18/f/Sealand

[–] cantrips@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You sure it’s not 18/Jawa/Tatooine?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She told me she talked to a guy who just wanted to talk about WoW and his favourite Linux distro. She gave up when he didn't make a move and decided to look for a real man. Was that you?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would have been WoW and Star Trek if it was me.

[–] IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is she single?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did she ever meet anyone interesting doing that?

Jk, of course. It was just too good of a setup to ignore.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Not as far as I know.

[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Me too. I hope they're different people

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My standard reply was "hailing frequencies open." Needless to say it was the opening line that let multiple women know that I was single. Surprisingly it had a 100% success rate. I was the best nerd.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did that line get you laid a lot?

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

The data is conflicting. I think they had already made up their mind on that topic before messaging me. My reply just reinforced their decision. It's hard to separate causation and correlation in that case.

[–] ____@infosec.pub 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I met someone I thought I'd marry there in the exact same way around '99.

That feature was powerful, and now we just can't be bothered because scammers and blah blah.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

So many scams.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did you wait until your wedding night to cyber for the first time?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Uh...no. It was all about sex. The whole getting married thing was an accident.

[–] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And now you have grandchildren?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Not yet. Our son isn't quite 16 and our daughter is 18 and into girls. It may take a few years yet.