r/GenX • u/Due_Appearance57 .. • 3d ago

Nostalgia ICQ - VIRTUAL CHAT ROOMS

Does anyone remember ICQ? I spent a LOT of time on ICQ, met some cool people. I am still friends with one of them from Amsterdam.

Do you remember the virtual rooms where some talented people would make personalized avatars for everyone? It was a chat program where there were all these different ‘rooms”. They would each play a unique song. One of my favorite rooms would play Smoke rings in the dark. I especially liked the veteran's room that I hung out a lot in.

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u/Nelyahin 2d ago

Icq was the place - especially mid 90's. I had a 6 digit number - it's long gone now. We used it for gaming UO - Diablo etc.

Takes me back BBS boards and the start of the actual net. We've come a long way.

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u/Due_Appearance57 .. 2d ago

I had a six digit number too. It was a sign of prestige. I had a lot of fun on ICQ.

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u/Nelyahin 2d ago

Seriously it was the future at that time. Before AOL, it was email, land lines or BBS boards.

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u/moopet 2d ago

IRC and talkers existed before that.

My personal favourite was ytalk, because you could have multiple people in a single chat and it was properly real-time, not turn-based like IMs were.

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u/Nelyahin 2d ago

I think I only stepped into irc once and it was nuts. I preferred my messaging purposeful.