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I'm down with this (thelemmy.club)
submitted 12 hours ago by to c/historymemes@piefed.social
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[–] 82 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 10 hours ago (3 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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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours 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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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours 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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  • [–] 18 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    uh oh

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  • [–] 18 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

    No, not ICQ

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  • [–] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    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 7 hours 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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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours 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 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours 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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