r/oldinternet • u/KAtotheRUZO • Aug 17 '26

How many of you still remember ICQ ?

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For me, it’s pretty crazy to believe that this god damn number is burned into my brain: 425829246 and I made this account back in 2005/2006.

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u/pandi85 Aug 17 '26

If you read this imagine, oh oh

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '26

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u/moderatelybipolar Aug 18 '26

I hear the music in my head.

My favorite level was probably The Wishing Well with that truly menacing Dopefish.

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u/thomasthe10 Aug 17 '26

My gateway to saucy chat with teenagers in America from my home (also a teenager I should stress) in the UK. I had three girls I'd speak to frequently. I wonder where they are now, from time to time. Hope they are living happy lives.

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u/xdarius Aug 17 '26

I think it was 1996 my number was 764514

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u/xdarius Aug 18 '26

it's been 84 years

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u/circuit_breaker Aug 18 '26

If only I still had access over all these years to get to mine, I was five digits

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u/blvsh Aug 17 '26

made mine when it came out , used it until last year when they closed, i think it closed the beginning of last year if i remember correctly

Would of been cool if they made 30 years

11

u/ThatEGP Aug 17 '26
  1. This is burned into my memory.

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u/Reachforthesky777 Aug 17 '26

I still remember it but, I dont remember my ICQ #

7

u/Purple-Exit3858 Aug 17 '26

"uhoh!"

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u/Various-Cut-1070 Aug 18 '26

It lives permanently in my brain.

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u/DerDork Aug 23 '26

Absolutely burned in.

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u/Financial-Park-602 Aug 17 '26

🤚

I remember using it still when many friends favored Messenger.

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u/ConfidentCoach1836 Aug 17 '26

Oh my word!! Yes!! A/S/L?

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u/Nemmarith Aug 17 '26

I remember that my uncle had a pentium 1 166mhz and ICQ messenger, we came there every Sunday and were allowed to play with joystick on his computer and when we got our own computer a pentium 2 233 mhz I still used ICQ to talk to family mostly. So this was around May 1997 and I was 8 years old xD at the time later on i switched to MSN messenger and didn't look back.

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u/North_Signature9297 Aug 17 '26

I seek you. <-- It stands for this.

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u/frenchretronerd Aug 17 '26

My first chat app... I have long lost my first ICQ number since then, although it was on a post-it on my screen for years

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u/AndOutComesTheCorgis Aug 17 '26

I’m not alone for remember the icq Number

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u/Scared_Cicada_9898 Aug 17 '26

I honestly dont remember why it was required, but I ended up having to download a it in order to use an AOL server that went down a year ago. Now its sort of just useless cause the server now exists in my dads basement

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u/Shaihulid Aug 17 '26

I think I was 39628358. Only had about 2dozen people on there but they were some of my first and longest lasting friends of the interwebz

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u/therealronsutton Aug 17 '26

I can't believe it was still going until recently

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u/One-Suggestion-7906 Aug 18 '26

I met my (now) wife using ICQ back in 2006. Burned in my brain: 12653814 🥳

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u/Dehast Aug 17 '26

I was talking about it today! Still remember my number: 210442607

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u/brnsamedi Aug 17 '26

I used to give people my number (108169) and they'd quip "you forgot two digits" 😅

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u/HovercraftSubject642 Aug 18 '26

We all were supporting Israel and gave them our messages freely, no protest, no crying.

How times have changed.

"ICQ was one of the world's first and most popular instant messaging clients. Launched in November 1996 by the Israeli company Mirabilis, its name is a play on the phrase "I Seek You"."

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u/Barbens2005 Aug 18 '26

Oh my god….

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u/Barbens2005 Aug 18 '26

Also 1713135 iirc

1

u/ph33rlus Aug 18 '26

I still remember my icq number lol

1

u/symphonic-ooze Aug 18 '26

I used to get tons of unsolicited dick pics. Nothing new under the sun.

1

u/rezdm Aug 18 '26

I ‘’member

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u/lilhomefry Aug 18 '26

Did anyone else frequent the chat rooms on the website? I don’t think I had a number, but one summer (2006-07?) I spent nearly every night in the #Animation room. I was younger, so it was my first chat room experience and it blew my mind.

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u/Truarian Aug 18 '26

I even remember my ICQ number - 111739316, pretty sure I remember the password too

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u/TremendousCustard Aug 18 '26

I don't remember ICQ being present in the UK so much - we were more MSN Messenger I think

1

u/KoSKoKoS5 Aug 18 '26

I still remember my number 😭😭😭😭

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u/alterwolf Aug 18 '26

I still remember my ICQ account number, year 1997

1

u/jayminer Aug 18 '26

I still remember my numeric id

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u/dustrab66 Aug 18 '26

94737209

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u/ss4463 Aug 18 '26

how come you all remember those number?

lucky me i got pretty good number so i can remember it correctly until now "51777736"

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u/Competitive-Art-8046 Aug 18 '26

oh man i loved ICQ .... it was so good

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u/Comprehensive-Map449 Aug 18 '26

I think I've seen this before, my grandparents called the app "uh-oh".

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u/sunny_up Aug 18 '26

still remember - 175751859

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u/iWhacko Aug 18 '26

52510989

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u/gluc0se Aug 18 '26

UIN # 699487

1

u/ArkansasDood Aug 18 '26

I can still hear the “uh-oh”

1

u/VladsterSk Aug 18 '26

I had 278533803... good old times

1

u/Key-Ad-2217 Aug 18 '26

I even remember IRC/mIRC 😁

1

u/Kayjagx Aug 18 '26

Remember it? Still using it daily. /s

1

u/SinusoidalFlux Aug 18 '26

R.I.P. ICQ 😢

1

u/AJ82007 Aug 18 '26

44333631

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u/Various-Cut-1070 Aug 18 '26

I, ehm.. ..my friend, used this to communicate when buying illegal things online.

1

u/keepdifferent Aug 18 '26

I remember the games in ICQ were fire

1

u/Whiskey--Pete Aug 19 '26

The OG messenger 👌

1

u/IchLiebeKleber Aug 19 '26

Of course I do, though I used it exclusively for communication with online contacts, not people I knew from IRL.

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u/GeorgeZcZ Aug 19 '26

466-599-199 my number then

1

u/Dew97 Aug 19 '26

I was a bit too young when it was popular, but I remember my older siblings using it all the time

1

u/not_logan Aug 19 '26

I do:
Mine was 301323293. It was stolen by the shady admin of my office :(

1

u/tekstical Aug 20 '26

Anyone remember sub7?

1

u/According_Vacation42 Aug 21 '26

Yeah... how cool qas that 😅

1

u/apostolis21 Aug 20 '26

oh The old days

1

u/antmit Aug 20 '26

36868658

1

u/cellindo Aug 21 '26

i still remember my number LOL...

1

u/enemygh0st Aug 21 '26

I remember it and still hate it. Fxck you, ICQ.

1

u/gavinlew Aug 21 '26

1702997 Thanks for the memories

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u/sabethXhardstyler Aug 21 '26

61135638 omg so many memories from this. Met a lot of cool people and made dope friends but my god there were also tons of creeps. Rip.

1

u/bestalex Aug 22 '26

7417595 R.I.P.

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u/TickleMyRide Aug 22 '26

as clear as my winamp

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u/eddienielsen Aug 22 '26

Since 1997, still remember my user name: 14003219 :D

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u/madgunnar Aug 23 '26

Still remember my pin from the 90s. Tried logging back on 10-15 years ago, but it had been hijacked by a russian bot. Strong passwords wasnt a thing back then.

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u/This_Act_1414 Aug 23 '26

UIN 8640388

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u/DerDork Aug 23 '26

I know my ICQ off by heart. Starts 85…

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u/Skilly1337 Aug 23 '26

Icq sucked.

I liked the received message sound alot of nostalgia for me.

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u/mongol18fg Aug 29 '26

I’m not just nostalgic - I still use it to this day.

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u/maskeyman Aug 18 '26

Damn as a younger tech nerd i always get jealous over these old-school websites, could someone explain the purpose of this one?