The ICQ uh-oh is my text alert message. Has been for years. No one recognizes it anymore.
uh oh
I had a parrot at the time and she picked up on the uh oh and would repeat it, exactly like the system, all the time.
The parrot saying “Uh oh!” Is the last thing the hot blonde in a slasher movie hears.
That wallpaper is cray!
That’s from the original EverQuest or one of it’s early expansions.
I think it’s Ruins of Kunark
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Buy a print to support the original artist
Dude I love you!
Thanks to sharing. This art really takes me back
I would have also accepted
- warcraft 3
- Heros of might and Magic
- Warhammer (bit of a push there though)
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, fam.
Nah. Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness
The thing about that screenshot that has me curious is the shortcut to 7zip which, although it has been around for longer than I realised, no one really used until the 2nd half of the 00’s
Isn’t this just a screengrab from a win98 VM?
Given the presence of 7zip almost definitely
Which makes it kinda more interesting tbh—did someone at Ars set this up to take a screenshot of ICQ? Getting a windows 98 VM set up with all that other stuff just for an article image seems like a lot of effort for a journalist who probably needs to get a few articles written a week.
If it wasn’t Ars, who was it and why did they set up a somewhat period-accurate windows 98 VM and then take a screenshot of ICQ out of everything?
Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this
Honestly I thoughr about doing it after suggesting that it might have been a VM. Maybe it was someone like me.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I get that someone might set up the VM, I just don’t know why they’d do that plus then screenshot ICQ and put it somewhere online for this journalist to find
Maybe someone in the art department keeps a Windows 98 VM setup specifically for these tech obituaries for programs and services people thought were long dead. I don’t think I’ve used AIM/ICQ/MSN Messenger since around 2007/2008, and it was because it had become pretty dead.
Good ol Everquest.
Just added the “uh-oh” sound as an alert tone on iOS 🫡
Set one up when I used a different handle but literally never used it. Thought I had a short ID number but, for reasons I’m not sure of, the piddly scrap of paper I wrote the number down on has always been in a particular place (and has been there for well over a decade), and it was 9 digits.
Must have been thinking of that handle’s Slashdot ID. That was 6 digits.
… and technically still is. Wow. The account is apparently still there. Not sure I’m going back there any time soon, but took this opportunity to reset the password just in case.
Still remember mine, 7 digits long. Now i gotta go install the app and see if i remember my password.
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Six digits, that’s old school.
My ICQ ID was a rather low number…
Yo, guys. How is deadaim doing these days?
Is that a project to bring back AIM?
ICQ and prodigy online service were killer products.
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What a great app! I remember for a little while you could interact directly with AOL IM. Had a superiority complex using icq while other poor dweebs were on AOL default IM app.
And now I’m jealous of everyone who did experience it, because I have never heard of it until news of it shutting down reached my eyes.
It was never popular where I’m from. Not even AIM was well known to us.
“ahead of its time”? Just because Google tries to reinvent text chat every 3 seconds doesn’t mean there are new things to add
Though someone hacked it a few years ago and took it over. Demanded money from me and I told them to f off, as I hadn’t used it for years.
