Thanks, I had no idea what my password was but trying one of the old ones I constantly used back in the day worked :)
I also didn't remember my ICQ# but luckly I found it on a backup from an old website I used to have.
There was also a page where me and my friends were trying to pool togheter our numbers and incentivize people to use it, back when ICQ was being demolished by MSN and AIM... it was a very grassroots attempt that ammounted to nothing lol, but oh whell, at least we tried :(
You served me well 177024717
I tried messaging someone who seemed to be online and got a system reply telling me that my account had been compromised which is entirely possible as 20 years ago I used that same password elsewhere.
I logged in (how the hell did I remember the ID and password‽) but all my contacts except 1 that I don't remember are gone.
I had exactly the same experience! Just one contact is there, I had at least a hundred.
For at least the last fifteen years I've believed my ICQ account was lost forever, however seeing your post now I decided one last time to try logging in by guessing the password. And it worked!! I can see my old friends list! What a weirdly uplifting feeling!
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And it worked! All my old online friends from my childhood were there, my profile message, etc. While most were offline, a few showed up as online and I quickly messaged them!
But my excitement died down as no one responded. Were their accounts hijacked? Is that status invalid? I have no idea. But I was disappointed. It's still cool the service is up all this time.