Ask HN : What killed ICQ?

Re:Ask HN : What killed ICQ? by chops on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:07PM (#434281)

About 3 years ago, my 6-digit ICQ number got hijacked without any way of getting it back (I had created it with a geocities.com email address). That was when I stopped using it.

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Re:Ask HN : What killed ICQ? by guruz on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @07:45PM (#434646)

Funny. Maybe about two years ago, I could not login to my "first" ICQ account either. Never knew why that happened.

Also, none of my buddies complained about getting weird messages from that account. Was that the case with your account?

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Re:Ask HN : What killed ICQ? by chops on Thursday January 15, 2009 @12:31AM (#434865)

My friends has simply notified me that my account was hijacked, as I rarely actually logged in anymore. My friends said that they would IM my account, and get a response either in russian, or in very broken English, informing them that this is a russian now.

Upon which they called me to ask if I was pretending to be russian.

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