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Originally Posted by angeleyes
I know how you feel. I got an icq number in 1993 and it was six or seven digits long and I still had it when I started in this business but I created a new number because I didn't want to combine the personal with the work. In the end my dumbass locked myself out of both because I didn't keep my recovery email up to date. If I signed up again today, it would probably be about 15 digits long. That might be okay though because I can start threads with "I SALE 15 DIGIT ICQ NUMBERS" lol do they still do that?
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Do you remember when people could send you viruses and stuff through ICQ?
As a teenager my buddy and I sent this girl one through her ICQ, we met her at night skate and both of us thought she was hot. She was bit of a prankster herself and we decided to play a prank on her, so I forget how, but we infected her ICQ and then had uploaded a .wav file of the terminator saying "fuck you asshole" from the movie to her pc... but we wanted to do it at the perfect time.
Anyways, on like a Friday night at 11 PM we set it up for her computer to play "fuck you asshole" like 100 times through the speakers, and her parents were foreign from Iran and had never seen the terminator and they heard someone saying "fuck you asshole" from their computer room and evacuated their house in terror and called the cops saying there was a psychopath in their computer room screaming at them... then the cops went into the house and found nothing, but her ICQ was open...
So then the cops went through her entire ICQ list trying to find us, and my buddy's ICQ number was on her list and she told the cops who my buddy was, but my buddy didn't actually have a computer, he used his brother's and his brother was away training with the Canadian Armed Forces, so the police were stumped but it was a big scandal at the time and I think it even made the local news like 25-30 years ago because her whole family evacuated their house... it was just a prank bro!!!
ICQ even outlasted MSN Messenger...