ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down
ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down
ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.
I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn't know anything of it still remained.
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How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don't remember what I did last week half the time.
I used mine in my mail signature for a while and I’ve kept all my emails since late 90s.
Fair. My current mail signature has a dead link in it and I can't be bothered to do anything about it.
What's with your pride in being complacent?
What are you talking about?
"I can't be bothered to update my signature" - you could fix it in half the time it takes to post here. It's just a weird... I'd say flex, but it's the opposite. It's like a sag or deflation.
I could, but I don't feel like it. Why do you care?
For the same reasons you do not care.
Well that can't be true. I don't care because I'm lazy and you're making an effort.
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I am autistic.
Seriously, though, diagnosed autistic and I remember numbers exceptionally well.
- ICQ number 6725571
- Pi to 260 decimal places
- My ex-wife's driver's license number
- My 11-digit Blockbuster employee numbers from the two stores I used to work at
- The nine-digit employee numbers of a few employees under me from when I worked at Six Flags in 1994
For some reason, I never used the "save login info" feature as a teen, I didn't trust that it was safe, so I typed it every time. Hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years. So even after 15 years or so of not using it, I still remember.
For some reason short strings of digits have always stuck really well in my memory. I still remember my high school locker combos and every phone number I've ever had.
813-823-6615 was my childhood number until I was 10. My mom sang it to us. Never thought to remember my lock code. 0-31-10.
I taught my kids our address and my telephone number through songs when they were little. Music makes learning abstract things like that way easier. I teach the quadratic formula wihh a song to my Algebra students every year.