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  • ICQ? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... a long time.
    by ventana
  • ICQ and LiveJournal were the two greatest Russian psyops of the 1990s.

    UIN: 279866

    by ButlerianJihad
  • As TinCan phones are getting popular in my kid’s friend circle, I am getting second hand pride at her low number like I had (have?) for my ICQ number
    by derwiki
  • FWIW, ICQ was being discussed here less than a month ago.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224443

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167258

    OK, OK... to be fair "discussed" is an over statement. Let's say "ICQ was mentioned here less than a month ago. :-)

    by mindcrime
  • The Github page has a link to a Discord chat. Hah, where's the dogfooding?
    by netsharc
  • If you want to use Pidgin with it, check out https://github.com/pidgin/retro-prpl
    by rw_grim
  • I remember when I discovered a remote ICQ buffer overflow in high school. I didn't have the skills to gain code execution at the time, but I created an app that could DoS and crash the client of anyone, if I knew their username.
    by elmer2
  • ICQ was my first messaging experience. Good old times!
    by snthpy
  • Neat. At some early startups, we used AIM similar to how Slack is used today.
    by icedchai
  • Hey all, If you're looking for a public server to jump into to start chatting on aim again, please check out https://logon.chat/

    It is fully backed by OOS

    :)

    by himynameisjoeyc
  • I was always more of an MSN Messenger guy. But the Open OSCAR Server project is a fantastic labor of love stewarded by a kind soul.

    They put up with (if not were outright amused at) me digging up the weirdest 3rd party clients I could [1] and just kicking them around against the server software to find bugs [2]

    [1] https://wiki.cursedsilicon.net/wiki/AIM_Clients

    [2] https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server/issues/120

    [2] https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server/issues/122

    [2] https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server/issues/123

    by CursedSilicon
  • i threw the oscar server up on a container at work last year and sent my friends the clients. absolute trip hearing that open door sound again lmao. good times. we all just warned each other for the rest of the day.

    somehow that experience eclipsed microsoft teams. i suppose thats unsurprising

    by trueno
  • Oh how I wish modern chat platforms would let me use a client of my own choosing. It's all so locked down and usually garbage-tier because the user has no choice.
    by Avamander
  • The hacked MSN client from mess.be was amazing. You could spam the "nudge" that made your friend's client take focus and shake and make a noise!
    by Y_Y