I don't know if it's nostalgia or silliness, but I've at various times reused the ICQ uh-oh audio as irssi hilight/putty audio bell sound, SMS signal and Discord voice channel join sound over the years. Usually I find it entertaining the first two or three times and then it acts as a very large stressor.

Me too, it's been my phone's notification sound for about 20 years now

Yeah, the random chats were definitely the highlight. I recall a level of discourse considerably higher than what you commonly find on eg. Omegle now (or 5 years ago or whenever I last used it, anyway).

Well, Omegle doesn't exist anymore, so that's a true statement anyhow.

I certainly ran into scammers on ICQ.

Which year ?

I don’t remember exactly, but it must have been around 2002 or so.

I found my (ex)wife on ICQ, or rather she found me.