Not at all.
It’s been well over 20 years since I’ve heard anyone talk about it, and its probably been 25 since I used it myself.
Comment on Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years
Ledivin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Serious question: did anyone here actually know it was still around? I’m one of the more tech-savvy people I know and haven’t touched ICQ in well over a decade at this point
Godort@lemm.ee 5 months ago
toofpic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was working in Russian IT sector at the time when the government tried to block Telegram. For a few days we had some communication problems because we ised TG for all project chats and communication with most customers. We worked as contractors making an app with/for Mail Ru Group (now the whole company is rebranded as VK, but it’s actually a lot of different businesses). This is when I got to know that product manager I was working with was also the product manager for ICQ. And that we had to switch to fucking ICQ for daily conversations because that was their default backup method. Crazy!
I found out that it was facelifted up to the point where you couldn’t see the difference between it, TG or WhatsApp.
After about a week, TG was updated and it had a dynamic server connection (not a hardcoded one), so IP blocks stopped working and we returned to tg.
I still remember my number from the 2000s: 173114498. Though I lost access to that account a long time ago
MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 months ago
I didn’t realize it could shutdown. Thought it was more like irc.
4am@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Nope, it was much closer to AIM than IRC.
Also, IRC also depends on servers and, well, many of them have shut down 😔