Remember the Pentium FDIV bug back in 1994? Intel created a call center to take care of all the replacements and I took a temp job doing that.
I haven’t turned it on for years, though. That means I was the 65,361’st person to use it. Today Facebook and Twitter (and Pownce and Jaiku) have totally replaced IM for me. I think they were scared of taking stuff out which people liked, too, which made it hard to improve. At some point after 2001 it stopped seeing radical improvements. In 1996 it seemed like there was a new feature every few days. It got too cluttered and stopped being developed. Unlike Twitter IM has an expectation that you’ll answer it sometime soon.īut that’s my problem and I’m an outlier. Why? Everytime I start it up I get a flurry of messages. It was sold to AOL eventually where it never got best of class status, always remaining spiritually behind AOL’s other IM client, AIM).įor me IM started sucking more and more until it got to the point that today I can’t use it. I’ll tell you why (I was a very early user of ICQ, which was the first instant messaging client that I remembered seeing. Our message forums, our gallery pages, our helpdesk systems and any other services we offer now or in the future.Ĭommon sense and politeness will carry you in most situations, but you will find our Acceptable Use Policy, channel Bot Policy and some other information here.Ĭonnecting information for IRC Clients: asks “ Why did we all stop using ICQ?” When necessary, these rules and restrictions may be updated and enforced across all of the services we offer, including Generally accepted laws and codes of conduct, and for the protection of our services and those who use them. In order to make this possible, we have determined that certain rules and restrictions are necessary to avoid violations of Our goal is to provide a pleasant atmosphere for people to enjoy socializing in an online chat environment. ICQ-Chat was founded in November 2015 and is a separate IRC Network. When IrCQNet closed in 2015 a small group of folks got together and began to discuss what kind of chat network we would like to chat in, at the end we decided to start a new Network called ICQ-Chat since that name was easy to rememberįor all former IrCQNet chatters.
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