ICQ will stop working from June 26

Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by nick238 on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:37PM (#40467852)

Isn't mIRC just a client for IRC (a standard), but ICQ is centralized? Or are there some "mIRC"-branded servers out there that run popular IRC channels?

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by aleksandrm on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:39PM (#40467881)

Correct, mIRC is just one of many clients for an IRC protocol.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by weinzierl on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:07PM (#40468830)

Yes, yes, just a client, but for me it was the first interface to whole new world, so I will never forget it.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by edm0nd on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:12PM (#40468900)

slaps you with a trout

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by alluro2 on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:20PM (#40469605)

I genuinely LOLed, thanks for that! :) What a flashback.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by userbinator on Friday May 24, 2024 @10:46PM (#40472264)

I was reminded of that when analysing the Skype (now Teams) protocol and found that one of the domains it uses was trouter.io.

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