who still uses ICQ?

[Gooberlx2]

I used it mid-late 90s. So did most of my friends. Then people started splitting off and using Yahoo, MSN, AIM, etc...blah I used trillian for a bit, then realized I hate IMing.

 

[LtPage1]

I never knew anyone who used anything but AIM, MSN Messenger, and now Gmail.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I used it in the late 90s, but it got bloated and started to suck.Then i went to MSN. Now I don't use anything, apart from using MSN as a quick way to check hotmail.

 

[RaiderJ]

It had some great file-transfer utilities.... they seemed to work better than other options at the time. Used it in early college to send a friend over a gigabyte(!) of MP3's.

57509183

 

[lizardth]

I still have an account but I only install Trillian.

 

[alkemyst]

my current is 7 digits but I am not sure what it is...my original was around the same month it came out but my email host was bought out and the new company was not forwarding mails.

I have about a dozen accounts I had to recreate due to this. It's sort of stupid to require any email change go to the old email account for approval with no other options.

 

[DaWhim]

41464386

have not log on for years

 

[2Xtreme21]

For some reason I still have it memorized. 151407594

 

[TheVrolok]

4303802.. haven't used it since shortly after Q2 came out

 

[angry hampster]

Holy crap..I haven't used ICQ in about 10 years. Frankly, I haven't given it much thought. I remember the old school keyboard sounds you could set it to make while typing. As a 12 year old, I thought that was brilliant.

 

[Homerboy]

I still use it everyday as my primary IM account (work and home). Granted I use it in Pidgin, but the account it still utilized.

Edit: Anyone remember PowWow?

 

[crab]

8140380...havent been on in years.

 

[TheSlamma]

I was going to connect to my account recently with Trillian, but my old number was reset or something, after that I didn't bother

 

[Howard]

16361888 off the top of my head

 

[ElFenix]

3556681

a friend of mine has a number below 1 million

 

[acheron]

14713737, haven't used it since 2000, haven't thought about it for about a year, since the last time an ICQ thread came up on a forum (might have been here, actually).

 

[ballmode]

It looks like it merged with AIM

 

[clamum]

I haven't used it since probably the fall of 2008, and I didn't much even then. It was what everyone around here started using in early high school (~1997) so I stuck with it.

 

[Ramma2]

11896987

Haven't used it since college, which was 10 years ago now.

Uh oh!

Edit: Related story: I tricked my dorm neighbor into installing BackOrifice, then proceeded to play the ICQ "uh oh" sound on his PC over and over again. Said neighbor would come over and ask for help on how to stop it.

 

[HannibalX]

I still use my original number I got in 1998 (7 digit). I use a very low footprint (like 600k) version of Miranda for my client. This is the only IM service I have for personal use.

 

[So]

I turned off my account quickly after I dug it back up, since I immediately started getting IM spam.

 

[arch113]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...AR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Single

 

[Sasiki]

40057471 but haven't used it in at least 8 years. I don't know how I remember the number.

 

[insect9]

I used it in the mid 90's 'till around '00. I don't have much need to IM anyone anymore.

 

[Finalnight]

I stopped using it around 1999-2001. I really haven't used any IM programs (besides the occasional video conference) since about 2004. I really prefer text messaging, email, and phone calls.