ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit

Re:ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit by mathrawka on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:01PM (#12962160)

Hey! I'm not sure if we ever talked, but I maintained Licq and did the rewrite when the protocol got switched to be like AIM.

I also wrote the initial Miranda ICQ plugin for the new protocol as well, I think that was back in 2002.

Just thought I'd say hey.

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Re:ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit by buserror on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:56PM (#12962627)

licq, thanks for that, scary thoughts how much of my life back then passed thru licq.

I'm still on ICQ, via pidgin. There's just 'me' these days, but I'm holding the fort. So there :-)

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Re:ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit by Trombone12 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:34PM (#12964085)

There is still one icq contact occasionally online for me! And I think I talked to a friend using icq less than three years ago ;)

Though with all the closing of networks these last years I sometimes neglect starting pidgin at all since I'll need some tabs open fore messaging regardless :(

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Re:ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit by Gruselbauer on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:17PM (#12963811)

I connect out of tradition, too. Nobody uses it anymore but damn it if I didn't have many contacts.

Memory lane, eh?

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Re:ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit by tracker1 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:21AM (#12967666)

Wish I could get my 5-6 digit icq number back... long since lost to the ether...

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Re:ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit by drinchev on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:05PM (#12962202)

Aah Licq ... so much memories in my head right now. Thanks for the great product.

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Re:ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit by jmontano on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:03PM (#12970229)

Back in 2004 the only way to connect to my employer's ICQcorp server from Linux was by running miranda under wine!

Thanks for that.

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