I used that messenger from when I was 15 till I was about 17... I had forgotten all about it until just a sec ago, figured I'd ask if anyone here ever used it etc...
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Thread: Anyone here use ICQ???
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02-16-2005, 07:37 PM #1All-American
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Anyone here use ICQ???
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02-16-2005, 07:40 PM #2All-American
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i could never get a membership number. but i heard it was a pretty good chat when it first came out
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02-16-2005, 08:14 PM #3All-American
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It is very interesting, takes you into a whole new world of messaging... I believe it was the first messenger/anything to allow downloadable skins for your messenger...
But when all was said and done, all of those nice little gadget-like deals weren't worth it when you could talk faster etc... with AOL/AIM/MSN/Whatever else...
Wonder what it's like now...
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02-16-2005, 08:22 PM #4Administrator
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I use to use ICQ, but erased it.
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02-16-2005, 08:55 PM #5lepfanGuest
I used to use it...I had forgotten about it.
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02-16-2005, 09:07 PM #6All-American
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i heard it also had real-time writing, like if person a were typing, person b could see when they messed up or erased something.
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02-16-2005, 09:11 PM #7All-American
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I don't think it did... I belive Yahoo was the first to have that...
In ICQ, you had to type your message, then press send, and it would be like sending an email, cept maybe a tad longer (3 secs)... it was a lot slower than the others, just easier on the eyes I guess...
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02-16-2005, 09:50 PM #8NSUTrumpet08Guest
Wow...ICQ...that had to be the first IM program i used...it was really cool...you could send files like pictures and sound across it and i loved the feature where it automatically saved all sent/received messeges. Good times...i actually saw it the other day when i went home for the holidays...dang...that was like my 7th and 8th grade years...the last message i ever sent from it was like january of 2001...then i've been using AOL ever since...
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02-16-2005, 11:12 PM #9AggieJohnGuest
yeah i totally used that for forever ago....it was so addicting, and so fun....i swore i would never go to AIM and now that's all i use, and ICQ was thrown by the wayside..i think it have over 100 mil downloads in it's lifetime...not bad
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02-17-2005, 12:26 AM #10All-American
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i used it...i wanna say it is still there, not sure though but i think AOL might have bought them out because for a while I could talk to my friends that had ICQ through AIM, like they merged services r whatever....
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02-17-2005, 02:34 AM #11All-American
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a lot of computer gurus still use it. not sure why....maybe some technical reason. Or maybe the lack if spyware.
"Those who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither..." Ben Franklin
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02-17-2005, 08:48 AM #12pirate44Guest
up until recently i used it. but it got real bad about sending advertising im's and porne invites.
