Does anyone use ICQ anymore?

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dmurray14

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Feb 21, 2003
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wow, i can't believe all these people are using MSN messenger. I for one have never used the damned thing in my life, and don't plan on it. EVERYONE I know uses AIM. Period.
 

Kadarin

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Nov 23, 2001
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ICQ? Isn't that like so 1998? I was always annoyed by it, particularly by the Mirabilis client. Yuck. Blech. Ptui.. :barf;
 

CubicZirconia

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Nov 24, 2001
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No. I hated the idea of having a number from the beginning. Plus no one I know uses it (or has ever used it).
 

illusion88

Lifer
Oct 2, 2001
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Originally posted by: ANY5546
49981695 :)

ICQ 4 life, lol. Every other place in the world uses it, just not the US. If I want to talk to my international friends I have to use ICQ.

HA I beat you!
41173624!
I use it, although now I use trillian, so I dont use the ICQ program anymore.
 

Crappopotamus

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Oct 1, 2002
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Originally posted by: PipBoy
ICQ was good but turned into massive bloat. I have never seen so many features that no one ever wanted (other than in a Microsoft product of course ;) )

thats been the downfall of icq. that and damn microsoft and the way they sucker all the lazy people into using msn... and everyone has to follow suit. gah. i really dont like msn. dont know why. i hate the look and feel.

icq back in the day was better than anything out right now. old skoolin. my no is 22177678.

i use trillian now. looks similar to icq. and i can talk to msn people too.
 

Vic

Elite Member
Jun 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
with 1 gb of ram i find it possible to load both aim and icq at the same time. its incredibles it is!
rolleye.gif
You realize each program only loads ~10MBs each right? Anyone with 256MB or more wouldn't even notice. And considering that 256MB costs about $20 bucks nowadays....
It's called sarcasm
*sigh*

been a long day and it's only 3:30...


btw, 14583578 and I never really thought of that as a low number until I read this thread. An old CS clanmate of mine (and I haven't played CS in at least 2 years) was like 30 thousand something...
 

ViperMagic

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Jul 7, 2001
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I used it way way back in the day, my number was under 1 million. 64xxxx i belive. I dont remember it exactly. I quit using it around 98b.
 

conjur

No Lifer
Jun 7, 2001
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I regained my ICQ # recently, 153213. :)

But, I only talk to a couple of people on it. I use Yahoo, mostly.
 

hzl eyed grl

Super Moderator<br>Elite Member
Dec 28, 1999
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I use it infrequently. I rarely remember to turn it on. As EA said, I do talk to him once in a while. :)
 

Tetsuo

Lifer
Oct 20, 2002
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Occasionally...I wish MSN had offline messaging...that was the only good thing about ICQ...
 

Amorphus

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Mar 31, 2003
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feel free to msg the above, I'm always on. I don't use it much, I think the ICQ part of Trillian feels rejected. cmon. gimme gimme gimme.