Yeah, I have a 500K number. I had a friend who was in the low 30Ks.

There was a sense in "pride" when you gave someone your number and they would say "Isn't there meant to be a few more numbers?"

Bah, my ICQ number is 52M. I am impressed my credentials are still in my Pidgin setup, though. And that it still logs in.

I don't think I have ever received or sent any messages, or met anyone else who used it.

On the plus side, my Slashdot number is under 7000, so that validates my life a little, and OH GOD THE RESET PASSWORD LINK EMBEDS YOUR OLD PASSWORD IN THE RESET URL IN THE CLEAR I need to wash my brain out now...

I had a 5-digit in low 20K at the time.

It was stolen because of a weak password on the account.

This is how I started my way in cyber security, thanks to the frustration and further research on how that happened.

Yeah same here, mine was an 8 digit, so not super impressive. But still was stolen. Associated with a .ir email account now. Oh well.

Same sort of thing happens with low SteamIDs.

i had a 6-digit number in the 150's. i haven't logged in in years, and when i did the password reset i discovered it's associated with some mail.ru address now. oh well.

I had two numbers at one point, tended to give out the longer one to avoid confusing people and appear "normal", hah.

> And looking it up reveals I was stupid enough to fill in my birthday correctly for it, which still displays publicly to this day.

You're implying that there's a search page where you can search accounts. I forgot what's number of my account and am curious if there's anyone who that I know that still uses it.

Ah, at last via web.icq.com I was able to recover my account, update my email address, and reset my password.

Looks like my contact list was wiped at some point over the years, though.

If I remember it correctly, server-side contact lists were only introduced in 2001 or so. In 99b it was stored on the client. That's my faint memory speaking, though.

That may be. I'd guess I last used ICQ in 1999 at the latest. I think I have a backup of my client database somewhere, but chances are slim it's readable.

Strangely that is the only long number I could remember ( was never able to remember phone number )