Just fired up ICQ - looks like Telegram, actually has a usable buddy list and voice and video chats, but unless you were one to have signed up pre-smartphone life they now require you to use your phone number for registration. Thankfully I signed up long, long ago. Almost 20 years ago.
I have my ICQ id.. If only I could remember the password
> I have my ICQ id
The real important question is how many digits.
If I recall correctly, six digit icq id's were selling for thousands of dollars.
Really? I have a 6-digit one (below 250K actually). I just fired it up this morning for the first time in years after reading about AIM.
Nah, $6+ if you buy in the right place. $300+ for 5-digits
I assume they were talking about in the past. Like a decade ago or earlier. Though 6 digit ones selling for thousands still seems a bit much unless they were appealing rounded numbers. 5 digits for thousands of dollars was def a thing in the mid 00s.
Bingo. Today's value of the network is different. Kind of the value of twitter handles before insta and snap showed up
Things have changed even more. The person with NYC or NewYorkCity IG handle now has a lucrative reportedly 6 figure income from that profile now by promoting NYC things.
Wow, just logged into my 6 digit ICQ for the first time in years. I can’t believe I remembered my password.
Low 8 digits, though I had an earlier one I lost the password to.
sigh
Low 7 digits. Only about 12 months earlier it was much lower, iirc
Isn't it hosted on the AIM server though?
It was sold to Mail.ru a long time ago. I think Mail.ru sold them a couple of years ago. They say they still have millions of users
I still keep it on my pidgin account list, though I can't recall actually sending a message on it for years.
Same here :) It's even worse, because I set it up with an XMPP gateway many years ago, and I don't even remember the password anymore :)