ICQ shutting down after 28 years

1. 2024-05-27 at 2 PM UTC

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   Grimace motherfucker [my enumerable hindi guideword]
   https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/icq-messenger-shuts-down-after-almost-28-years/
   
   

   The ICQ messaging app is shutting down on June 26th, marking the end of a much-beloved communication application.
   
   Before there was AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, or Discord (which came much later), there was a free messaging app called ICQ that over 100 million users used to coordinate plans, chat about life, or communicate while playing online games.
   
   ICQ ("I seek you") launched in 1996, just a short time before AOL Instant Messenger, and was loved for its ease of use, 1-on-1 or group chats, and the ability to communicate with people all over the world in real-time for free.

   
   The nostalgia.
2. 2024-05-27 at 2:10 PM UTC

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   Buff Billy Tuskegee Airman
   pls make public domain sirs
3. 2024-05-27 at 2:59 PM UTC

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   ner vegas African Astronaut
   iirc people can operate their own relay servers so it can't really be 'shut down'
   The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!

   • Mighest
4. 2024-05-27 at 3 PM UTC

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   ner vegas African Astronaut
   
   
   oh man
   The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!

   • Grimace
5. 2024-05-27 at 3:34 PM UTC

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   Buff Billy Tuskegee Airman
   company shuts down, stops paying their bills.
   
   Yep time to start using them and stop using discord forever. Real gang only use discontinued software and send all files through the "mojo wire" aka a fax machine and 9600 baud modems
6. 2024-05-27 at 3:51 PM UTC

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   Bradley Black Hole
   could've just used private messaging
7. 2024-05-27 at 4:26 PM UTC

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   Buff Billy Tuskegee Airman
   The only reason I never used ICQ was because there was never any bitches on ICQ
8. 2024-05-27 at 4:50 PM UTC

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   Bradley Black Hole
   I used Yahoo! Messenger because it had chatrooms for NSFW/Adult content
9. 2024-05-27 at 4:51 PM UTC

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   Bradley Black Hole
   cam 2 cam any1?
10. 2024-05-27 at 5:30 PM UTC

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    Buff Billy Tuskegee Airman
    NOTICE TO CHATTER: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has logged a record of this chat along with the IP addresses of the participants due to potential violations of U.S. law. VIOLATION: Solicitation of a minor. IMPORTANT WARNING: If you think this chat session was logged in error, please state your reasons to the F.B.I. agent currently monitoring this chat and quote the reference number #2334531343. Failure to do so within the next 2 minutes will result in your IP and address being entered into our criminal data base and legal action. If they don't reply, then say:
    
    Your IP address has been logged by the Child Internet Service Protection Agency. Please wait while memory ref code "502695151" is entered into the database.
11. 2024-06-05 at 4:36 PM UTC

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    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

    Originally posted by Buff Billy The only reason I never used ICQ was because there was never any bitches on ICQ

    
    
    There were, they were just mainly fat ones.
12. 2024-06-05 at 4:52 PM UTC

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    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole
    What's great about it is the vintage server executable is very small and has great paging capabilities, so you can bind it to another executable to get solid and reliable IP call-home service.
13. 2024-06-05 at 4:58 PM UTC

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    Instigator Space Nigga
    #Slashnet
14. 2024-06-05 at 6:05 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole
    good bump I will be downloading this client and running it this month, this is exciting
15. 2024-06-05 at 8:32 PM UTC

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    Kinks Actually pretty straight [bitch the twenty-second stewpan]

    Originally posted by ner vegas
    
    oh man

    
    first chat app ever, icq then irc
    
    super old school irc is when the internet party truly started though
16. 2024-06-05 at 10:02 PM UTC

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    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole
    I took out all the code out of the client, except for the pager, then recompiled it, and it came out as just 7kb. Really fast, and almost no memory usage. Bind that to the target's svchost.exe and you get the new IP every time the machine boots, and then whenever services are loaded.
17. 2024-06-05 at 10:12 PM UTC

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    Kinks Actually pretty straight [bitch the twenty-second stewpan]
    life was certainly simpler lol
18. 2024-06-05 at 10:55 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole

    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I took out all the code out of the client, except for the pager, then recompiled it, and it came out as just 7kb. Really fast, and almost no memory usage. Bind that to the target's svchost.exe and you get the new IP every time the machine boots, and then whenever services are loaded.

    
    post codfee
19. 2024-06-06 at 4:49 PM UTC

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    Mighest Houston
    RIP
20. 2024-06-06 at 4:54 PM UTC

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    Donald Trump Black Hole
    Imagine not even paying to keep a serbian running, just for old times sake.
    
    Typical Israeli company.