Somewhere, some group of friends is still hanging out in an IRC channel that started in 1998
Well I still haven't seen a modern chat application which gives all the IRC features. Its like they have deliberately removed all the good features.
real time typing in icq was pretty cool. I wonder if any other system ever replicated that?
ytalk :P
Yeah, and one of the most important features of IRC being "lightweight native client, integrating seamlessly with my environment". Somehow, these "modern" chat systems just can't do that.
Because that would require opening up either the client or the protocol, both of which are anathema to people trying to make money from those systems.
Being optimized for communication and being optimized for making money are mutually exclusive goals.
I’ve never used IRC before, so I’m honestly curious, what features does IRC have that Slack(/Discord) don’t or can’t have through extensions like bots and plugins?
slack is based on IRC
I'm still doing that today with people I met in 1995 or so.
Facebook has a messaging app problem, same as Google. Between those two companies they must have a dozen shitty apps, when icq solved that problem 10-15 years ago.
I still remember my icq number: 5588776
If you remember your password, you can still log into it at https://web.icq.com/
totally logged into my account for the first time in like 16-17 years. can't believe the service is still up and running, and that I haven't changed my default password since then... lol
73117649 :D
Agreed for Google, but what are facebooks "dozen shitty [messaging] apps"? They own Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram. Pretty much all relevant DM vectors apart from Snapchat and twitter.
Just saw this, and took a random stab at my number and password and to my massive surprise I got in! 50530999
My username still reflects when I played starsiege as a kid at some silly time over a dial up modem.. Wow!
5251730
The last release of ICQ was in 2016. Not in the grave yet. :)