Looks like ICQ died in 2024

[Psychophanta]

Looks like ICQ died in 2024
Initial release November 1996
Discontinuation June 26, 2024

[Kiffi]

R.I.P.

[Quin]

[Cyllceaux]

I still know my icq number: 172 130 236

[Caronte3D]

The strange thing was that someone still used it these days

[Quin]

The strange thing was that someone still used it these days

Some would argue that in the age of Discord us using phpBB is strange.

(for the record, I am not these "some")

[plouf]

These are diffirent thinks

Icq is instant messaging.competing skype/fb messenger etc
Discord is group/channel real live messaging a mix between irc/icq/skype
phpBB is a FORUM . In web forums these are static conversations per topic structured in categories
Fully searchable. Web sites in a bit like books , i.e. always available and in library so you can see every time

Webforum ,is a complete diffirent thing from discord....


Oot but discord for me is very very difficult to use... Nevr like it...

[Psychophanta]

@Cyllceaux, mine is still older: 76358580

[moulder61]

Mine might have been even older. Can't remember the number but it had 7 digits.
Must have been over 25 years ago.
Anyone remember Trillian?

Moulder.

[Cyllceaux]

I used Trillian and Astra.

But I loved Messenger2... a 300KB Messenger, which supported ICQ, MSN, IRC, AOL and some more protocols

https://web.archive.org/web/20040901005 ... atures.php

[Psychophanta]

Waw! I never heard about Trillian nor Astra. If they are older than ICQ , then you have definitely given yourselves away as older than other people here (me for example), else you are younger.

[Fangbeast]

I used Trillian and Astra.

I started with Trillian not long after it was released and paid for an Astra license. Who knows how many centuries ago that was. Astra wasn't too bad.

[plouf]

trillian messenger2 pidgin etc are not "messaging networks" like ICQ/MSN MESSENGER/SKYPE
they are just multiclient that connect to existing infrastructures, so i see no comparison to ICQ

trillian/pidgin etc btw still exist

[moulder61]

@plouf

Sorry for going OT in an OT post.
Anyone remember The Royal Mail? That used to be a good messaging network.

@Psychophanta

Yes, I'm quite old. The clue is in the name.

Moulder.

[AZJIO]

whatsapp?