Comments on: What happened to ICQ?

By: RimaJungleGirl

RimaJungleGirl — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:08:39 +0000

I use to use the random chat all the time and had quite a bit of fun with it. I just downloaded ICQ and it appears to be no more??? What a disappointment! My new number is 557379915

By: Rob Mitchell

Rob Mitchell — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:16:41 +0000

I loved ICQ, it was such a massive part of my growing up from 1998 until around 2003 when I migrated to MSN as no one was on ICQ any longer. Its quite erie looking through my contacts list and seeing all these accounts that used to be online every night but most won’t have been used for 6/7 years and probably forgotten about completely.

Its very strange how I too remember my ICQ numbers ( I have two, 27224550 and 56376571)

I will always be thankful to ICQ for helping me meet so many nice people and also for letting me chat to and find my first proper long term girlfriend!

By: Carson Jones

Carson Jones — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:02:44 +0000

I haven’t used ICQ in years, but I was very proud of my old UIN (103091) back in the day. It’s sitting there dormant with a rather stupid info message. I think I probably stopped using it around 2001 or 2002.

Anyway, it being such a low number, Russian hackers got a hold of it in 2000 or so for a while before I was able to get the account back. I remember arguing with the guy on a different UIN for a while before they added the option to retrieve to the e-mail address you signed up with. Funny how I was so upset about a 6 digit number back then.

I thought about retrieving the password and logging in to see if anyone was still on there, but the ICQ website won’t allow me to retrieve for some reason.

By: Kai

Kai — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:16:50 +0000

“PS my ICQ number was 165361. That means I was the 65,361’st person to use it. I haven’t turned it on for years, though.”

Dude, try to remember that your ICQ number is
ICQ#: 16 3 5 61

Nick Name: scobleizer
Name: Robert Scoble
Home Address: USA Santa Clara
Phone: +1 (408) 551-0481
Work Address: USA Millbrae
Phone: +1 (650) 697-5263
Fax: +1 (650) 292-2147
Company: UserLand Software
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Birth Date: 18/01/1965
About:
Feel free to say hi, but I like it a lot more when you start off by asking me a question.

Do not mistake your number with mine;)
16 5 3 61

Best regards,
Kai

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:21:29 +0000

Well, I also miss ICQ dearly. I had many friends on ICQ in the mid/late 90’s. It was a great community. I think MSN killed it. It’s sad but for me MSN for some reason doesn’t have the same geographical distribution as ICQ. There seems to be less incentive to “reach out”?

By: ChampDog

ChampDog — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:44:53 +0000

ICQ was my favorite long time ago. I miss ICQ. Therefore, I decided to install it and give it a try. After I installed it, the UI really disappointed me. The fonts are too small. I’m not sure if I’ve already get used to YM or MSN, the UI is no longer user friendly as it used to be. Less than 10 minutes, I actually uninstall it. I’m very sad… ICQ once was a leader.