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ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn't know anything of it still remained.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (5 children)

How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don't remember what I did last week half the time.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used mine in my mail signature for a while and I’ve kept all my emails since late 90s.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair. My current mail signature has a dead link in it and I can't be bothered to do anything about it.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's with your pride in being complacent?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"I can't be bothered to update my signature" - you could fix it in half the time it takes to post here. It's just a weird... I'd say flex, but it's the opposite. It's like a sag or deflation.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I could, but I don't feel like it. Why do you care?

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For the same reasons you do not care.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Well that can't be true. I don't care because I'm lazy and you're making an effort.

[–] Jhestyr@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[–] ratherstayback@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

For some reason, I never used the "save login info" feature as a teen, I didn't trust that it was safe, so I typed it every time. Hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years. So even after 15 years or so of not using it, I still remember.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am autistic.

Seriously, though, diagnosed autistic and I remember numbers exceptionally well.

  • ICQ number 6725571
  • Pi to 260 decimal places
  • My ex-wife's driver's license number
  • My 11-digit Blockbuster employee numbers from the two stores I used to work at
  • The nine-digit employee numbers of a few employees under me from when I worked at Six Flags in 1994
[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

For some reason short strings of digits have always stuck really well in my memory. I still remember my high school locker combos and every phone number I've ever had.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

813-823-6615 was my childhood number until I was 10. My mom sang it to us. Never thought to remember my lock code. 0-31-10.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I taught my kids our address and my telephone number through songs when they were little. Music makes learning abstract things like that way easier. I teach the quadratic formula wihh a song to my Algebra students every year.