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ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down
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A reminder of how much fun Web 1.0 was, not the walled-gardened, enshittified, corporatized, ad-riddled rage baiter it is now.
I always said way back in the early 2000s that once corporations figured out the internet, it and society in general would be very screwed. Their early attempts at trying to make things go viral and create engagement were laughably bad. Then they hired a bunch of psychologists and sociologists, bought up everything, and the rest is history.
Man, I am so sad now.
I miss the original internet. Back when it was a place for nerds and geeks, before commercial exploitation and SEO and Adpocalypse
The early version of what's now Microsoft's game suite in Windows was one of the coolest things I've seen on the Internet. It was a virtual gaming village where you could go sit at tables and play chess or checkers or cards with people from around the world. It worked 100% fine on 14.4k dialup.
Microsoft bought whatever that was and completely ruined it, just like they ruin everything else they buy.
That just reminded me of something I tried that was similar, I think it was called Visual Chat? It looked like a 2D cartoon, but each person controlled an avatar and could move around and talk to each other, go to other rooms, change expression, gesture, etc.
It's like the Midas touch: they make it shiny, expensive, and of little use.
You probably mean Comic Chat. It was actually just an IRC client, and I think it's still usable (but frustratingly ineffective) today. But there is a website where you can convert IRC logs to it, I think.
Yes, that's the one! Boy, it's been a long time.