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OK, but we demand IRC instead of AOL-IM.
IRC is still around and kicking. My friends and I use it all the time.
I want Pidgin or Trillian so I can talk to my friends on both MSN and Yahoo.
Also shoutouts to the brief period where everything was xmpp and Gmail could talk to Facebook and self-hosted.
Both still exist:
https://trillian.im/
https://pidgin.im/
I think the problem is that all the other chat services that they used to connect to closed off their connection protocols. Can't serve a bunch of shitty advetisements if users aren't using your website or app.
Sure, and it's nice, but the network effect is a removed
Though if your friend is over and wants to check their msn, DO NOT LET THEM LOG IN TO YOUR TRILLIAN. It will merge your friends lists because Trillian followed a "one person many accounts" model, not a "many people each with many accounts" one.
oh fun. that is an oversight.
Just one open source free platform would be fine. IRC with modern protocols for pics and video that can be viewed in the chat app of your choosing. Keep it simple, or add backgrounds. Mini chat boxes, or transparancy. Basic low resource use, or heavy, you decide, same open cross app platform.
And Domino’s instead of Pizza Hut
Let's do both, gotta have options. and a Taco Bell
Dominos is the best national chain now, in the 90s not so much. But Pizza Hut has always been too oily.
It’s period appropriate, should be fine
Give me back the golden era of Usenet!
uh oh
No, not ICQ
ICQ was pretty good. You could message offline people, which AOL/aim didn't support. Of course, this lead to a whole experience of waiting for your friend/crush to log on, but then not messaging them immediately... but then they log off and the opportunity passed.
It takes me a minute to remember my cell number, but I can rattle off my IQC number in a second. My ICQ fridge magnet was kept for decades through multiple moves
I remember i downloaded ICQ for my counter strike clan. That was the first i had ever heard of it, but i guess it had hit international popularity already . When I realized you just got a number, i was baffled that i couldnt search by name. Didnt take me long to memorize that number and make many online friends
Random chat made me some amazing friends that I kept in touch with for decades. Those friendships lasted longer than IQC did. Sadly, the Internet is a different place now.
I loved ICQ! I'm sure some people thought it was a horrible idea to see people type in real time but to me it was peak messenging.
I still know my ICQ number by heart, and a close friends too, who is lower than mine by about 50k. 140... and mine was 201...
Haven't used em in about 25 years.
But then I also still know my childhood phone number.
sad ship horn noises
Both. Pagers with LCD or eink only. No LED screens.
OLED. Can still use modern advances in practical tech. Can still have open source, modern kernel linux, modern ram and low power 3nm chips. Just keep all the tech simple and clean of marketing and addiction. All the good, less of the bad.
Not sure that will work, ubiquitous video is still possible.
I think I have my Advisor Gold around here somewhere
Well, the IRC part is easy. Just got to connect and start chatting.
If you are interested, may I suggest irc.inthemansion.com/6697 join #lobby to get started
Theres also a webchat available on the website :)
Yahoo Messenger
Maybe that's why I still use IRC. I was doing this subconsciously all along.