I was reading a story today about #theoldnet and how if you leave an “&” symbol at the end of an #email , it means you want the recipient to reply back. Does anyone remember this or still do this today? I don’t recall that being a thing or maybe it was and I didn’t notice. Gonna tag below with adjacent words in hopes of response.

#aol #bbs #vintagecomputing #retro #retrotech @ActionRetro #dialup #486 #windows95 #prodigy #netscape #icq #compuserve #angelfire #geocities #irc

AOL Instant Messenger is back! Sort of! Although AIM shut down in 2017, the retro-aim-server project keeps it alive in modern, self-hosted server that supports ICQ, too. https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server

I'm running an instance at oscar.schrockwell.com, so sign in with any screen name and come say hello! Client install directions here: https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server/blob/main/docs/CLIENT.md

Haha amazing, AIM and ICQ live again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taDOa2zIhlo

Remember the original #ICQ (I-seek-you)? It was the first #InstantMessenger. They envisioned that each web user has a UIN or User (or Unified?) Identity Number. It was built by Jews and Arabs. They defied stereotypes and showed they can work together. #Tech #History

It's a good time to remember the long-forgotten programs like ICQ and QIP, where the only thing left from the good old ICQ is the "o-ou" sound. They already had their own emojis and icons, and in the latest versions even their own qip.ru account. But I agree, it was a good thing! It made ICQ more comfortable and interesting. Just a plugin like the one that fetched the current song from Winamp and put the title in ICQ status was worth a lot!

It was amazing that ICQ had an open protocol that allowed you to write your own clients. I remember a rebellious one under Mandriva Linux that I built from source code. It took an enormous amount of energy. Especially later with the encodings. But what joy it was when everything started working stably!

In the picture is my honeymoon with Linux. I started making these kinds of screenshots before it became mainstream

Gerade eben in einem Twitch-Stream den notification sound von #ICQ gehört.
Jetzt fühle ich mich alt.

New Episode: hpr4258 :: Introduction and History of Using Computers

Introducing myself to the HPR community and going through my timeline of computer usage.

Hosted by @SolusSpider on Wednesday, 2024-11-27 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.

Tags: #Oric, #Dragon, #Atari, #Acorn, #Amstrad, #Enterprise, #Amiga, #Windows, #Linux, #FoodBank, #IRC, #Newsgroups, #ICQ, #TuxJam.

Today on the #HackerPublicRadio #Community #Podcast​

#HPR #CreativeCommons

https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4258/index.html

It's kinda fascinating how different quick messenger programs took off in different parts of the world to a degree that the local won't even understand the situation that you could have a smart phone and not whatever's the local ubiquitous option.

Been watching some travel Youtube channels and especially noted one case where the Youtuber travelled into some Asian country and they had some app I had never heard of. I had to look it up and it had like tens of millions of users, but pretty much all form that country.

I remember back in the days when ICQ was briefly popular here, until others completely ate its lunch, but working with a client who did import-export business with russian companies (before the war), I was amazed to see ICQ was for some reason very much alive in business use there.

In Finland WhatsApp is unfortunately the norm nowdays, with even business customers preferring that or Telegram, so I see both a lot at work.

IM then and now. #icq #teams #chat #funny #joke #meme