ICQ will cease operations June 26. If you know, you know.
  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    6 months ago

    uh oh

    I had a parrot at the time and she picked up on the uh oh and would repeat it, exactly like the system, all the time.

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      The thing about that screenshot that has me curious is the shortcut to 7zip which, although it has been around for longer than I realised, no one really used until the 2nd half of the 00’s

        • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Given the presence of 7zip almost definitely

          Which makes it kinda more interesting tbh—did someone at Ars set this up to take a screenshot of ICQ? Getting a windows 98 VM set up with all that other stuff just for an article image seems like a lot of effort for a journalist who probably needs to get a few articles written a week.

          If it wasn’t Ars, who was it and why did they set up a somewhat period-accurate windows 98 VM and then take a screenshot of ICQ out of everything?

          Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this

          • sturlabragason@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            Honestly I thoughr about doing it after suggesting that it might have been a VM. Maybe it was someone like me.

            • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Oh don’t get me wrong, I get that someone might set up the VM, I just don’t know why they’d do that plus then screenshot ICQ and put it somewhere online for this journalist to find

          • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Maybe someone in the art department keeps a Windows 98 VM setup specifically for these tech obituaries for programs and services people thought were long dead. I don’t think I’ve used AIM/ICQ/MSN Messenger since around 2007/2008, and it was because it had become pretty dead.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    And now I’m jealous of everyone who did experience it, because I have never heard of it until news of it shutting down reached my eyes.

    It was never popular where I’m from. Not even AIM was well known to us.