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I'm down with this (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/historymemes@piefed.social
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[–] 94 points 1 month ago (33 children)

OK, but we demand IRC instead of AOL-IM.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I want Pidgin or Trillian so I can talk to my friends on both MSN and Yahoo.

    Also shoutouts to the brief period where everything was xmpp and Gmail could talk to Facebook and self-hosted.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I think the problem is that all the other chat services that they used to connect to closed off their connection protocols. Can't serve a bunch of shitty advetisements if users aren't using your website or app.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Just one open source free platform would be fine. IRC with modern protocols for pics and video that can be viewed in the chat app of your choosing. Keep it simple, or add backgrounds. Mini chat boxes, or transparancy. Basic low resource use, or heavy, you decide, same open cross app platform.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    uh oh

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    No, not ICQ

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    ICQ was pretty good. You could message offline people, which AOL/aim didn't support. Of course, this lead to a whole experience of waiting for your friend/crush to log on, but then not messaging them immediately... but then they log off and the opportunity passed.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It takes me a minute to remember my cell number, but I can rattle off my IQC number in a second. My ICQ fridge magnet was kept for decades through multiple moves

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I remember i downloaded ICQ for my counter strike clan. That was the first i had ever heard of it, but i guess it had hit international popularity already . When I realized you just got a number, i was baffled that i couldnt search by name. Didnt take me long to memorize that number and make many online friends

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I loved ICQ! I'm sure some people thought it was a horrible idea to see people type in real time but to me it was peak messenging.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I loved ICQ too at the time, but I'm not giving up End-To-End encrypted messaging for copyright stealing ICQ.

    “You agree that by posting any material or information anywhere on the ICQ Services and Information you surrender your copyright and any other proprietary right in the posted material or information. You further agree that ICQ Inc. is entitled to use at its own discretion any of the posted material or information in any manner it deems fit, including, but not limited to, publishing the material or distributing it.”

    But I'm totally okay to see ICQ brought back as a "skin" for the matrix-protocol. Something that looks, sounds and works like ICQ, but is based on modern communications technology.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I still know my ICQ number by heart, and a close friends too, who is lower than mine by about 50k. 140... and mine was 201...

    Haven't used em in about 25 years.

    But then I also still know my childhood phone number.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Both. Pagers with LCD or eink only. No LED screens.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    OLED. Can still use modern advances in practical tech. Can still have open source, modern kernel linux, modern ram and low power 3nm chips. Just keep all the tech simple and clean of marketing and addiction. All the good, less of the bad.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    And Domino’s instead of Pizza Hut

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    How about a non-chain? Local pizza places still thrived in the 90s. That was one of the best parts of the 90s. Wal*Mart was slowly killing off mom-and-pop shops, but it hadn't finished yet, so there was a lot of variety and still a lot of craftsmanship in general.

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