Leaving ICQ

Andrew's blog

Wednesday, February 21. 2007

Posted by Andrew Ruthven

Comments (2)
Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: software

Related entries by tags:

Having just taken a closer look at the Acceptable Use Policy on ICQ as linked to from here I've decided to no longer use ICQ. When I first signed up with ICQ there weren't really many other options for IM. Actually, there probably weren't. Now other, better, options abound.

This decision probably won't affect too many people, I don't tend to use ICQ that much, but it affects a couple of folks I chat with.

Update: Add note about why I signed up with ICQ to start with.

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Brenda on :

i used powwow for a long time before icq arrived - it even had whiteboard / drawing collaboration and workable voice chat over 9600 baud. The voice was delayed but clear.

Comment (1)

Andrew on :

I haven't heard of powwow before. Looking at my ICQ history files, it looks like they date back to 1999.

Funny reading old history files having absolutely no idea who I was chatting with. It just has the ICQ ID number...

Another interesting thing, the ICQ client had a Y2K bug. The years for 2000 were initially written as 100 in the lgos. Ooops.

Comment (1)

Add Comment

Name

Homepage

Comment

In reply to

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.

Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.

Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above:

Remember Information?

Subscribe to this entry

Frontpage - Top level

Calendar

Leaving ICQ

Andrew's blog

Wednesday, February 21. 2007

Leaving ICQ

Brenda on :

Andrew on :

Calendar

Archives

Categories

Syndicate This Blog

Blog Administration

Show tagged entries

Powered by