So boys and girls

After sitting here watching random s***ty Irish TV, I was thinking what was the first IM client you used

Obviously IRC was the first, however I was too newb for that, so I used ICQ before IRC, then moved on to MSN Messenger and have pretty much stuck with that ever since and used the gmail notifying and gtalk as well.

Just downloaded an older version of ICQ to login, but alas my ID is no longer there :/

So what was your first IM client?

was icq for me also, then irc, then msn

I think wintalk circa trumpet winsock was my first real IM client?

I use irssi at the moment

I think ICQ was at least nearly my first, if not the. Was there a yahoo messenger? I think I used that too. And something else. I was a little messenger whore. Then I switched to msn, and then irc wasn't until college like 5 years ago. Currently use msn and gtalk.

icq = i seek you?!?!

ICQ then a bunch of protocols through Trillian. And yeah, I spent ages trying to figure out what ICQ stood for :)

What aboult talk? Or whatever it was that let you message to other unix users even across hosts.

Otherwise it was icq. I didn't see the point at the time. Everyone I needed to talk to was on irc. I couldn't believe how s*** MSN was or understand why people were flocking to it. Not being able to send a message because the person you were talking to had dropped off was infuriating.

Mine was ICQ, I even remember my number 17646300.

Those were the days.

irc

yeah would be icq then onto msn

i started using irc not that long after icq, always used them simaltaneously

icq, then yahoo, then msn.

irc
i installed icq n had a brief look but it was mega gay. uhoh! ;p
never used msn

IRC, ICQ (trillian)

yeah same as everyone else, there was a while where I was whoring y!, aim, msn, icq, gadu gadu (for family in europe) - plus I had that Internet Phone thing which gave me hours of amusement becuase you could call actual phone numbers in america for free - oh that was awesome. And I was a mirc scripter.

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First chat program I used was 'talk' on *nix, after that was IRC, ICQ, MSN.

ICQ was my breaking of the virgin instant messenger client.

icq.. 14483065


my friend had the icq number 200015, i was so jealous

ICQ -
i remember that dam sound it used to make when you get a message, AH OH!

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i used to be all over fidonet real time chats back in the day;

then write in unix (for lols)

then icq and msn for a bit

now only use gchat and facebook chat

icq

ICQ

ICQ - 4046356, Still have it too.

mIRC, then ICQ, then Miranda (with ICQ/MSN Messenger) at uni because it could run off a floppy disk (*cough*), then Trillian (with MSN and ICQ).

Now: MSN Messenger, Steam, Skype and Google Chat in GMail occasionally.

And my ICQ # is pretty low compared to some of you above: 1211****. I didn't post the rest because I just searched for it on ICQ and it has my real name, age and street address. FFS. Was I so stupid?

ICQ and then IRC, pretty much at the same time.

ICQ 50328663 and i still sit on icq as i use trillian.

then irc, then msn, then yahoo.

Hah just logged into ICQ, man thats a long time ago.. 119xxxx

ICQ,then MSN.

man ICQ number were so s*** to remember, I can't remember mine but it'll be low because I started using it in 98.. Jim you still got my ICQ number by any chance?!

Does 'Page Sysop' on a BBS count? haha.

Or Powerup's BBS chat?

If not, IRC then ICQ then MSN.

Who still uses IRC? I do I go on irc.freenode.net it's full of nerdy channels about open source software and mathematics.

I use Xchat, it's a piece of s*** tho, I don't know anything better.

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Who still uses IRC? I do I go on irc.freenode.net it's full of nerdy channels about open source software and mathematics.

Yup. I use it regularly on and off for various OSS projects.

I use ChatZilla for FF.

icq boi 45516634

irc is our primary company communication medium :)
we have a main work channel and then some other area-specific channels. it's a pretty handy tool we find, although it does have it's drawbacks


I found my icq account http://people.icq.com/people/full_details_show.php?uin=1100023

Who still uses IRC? I do I go on irc.freenode.net it's full of nerdy channels about open source software and mathematics. I use Xchat, it's a piece of s*** tho, I don't know anything better.

still use irc.oz.org every once in a while. xchat is good in linux, in windows, not so good and you're better off just using mirc.

20848464

what a rad number i had


lets all use ICQ again kids

mIRC (bonus points for pronouncing it "merc")

hey rad, i can log in to my old ICQ here


noone is online :(

mIRC and then ICQ - 81491251...still sit online thanks to Adium

55469109

i remember everyone used to hack the 6 digit accounts to be the cool kid on the block..

i think boba had a 6 digit account

ICQ for me. I remember the sounds from icq... 'uh ohhhhh'

For all to enjoy:

hello new sms tone

wow i can't believe i remembered mine and its password.
98784796
i remember having an older number before that aswell. i'm sure they are all written down in some book at my parents place. along with a crap load of IP addresses.

whos ip addresses

I first used ICQ and I can still remember my number: 44910246 but I'm never on it anymore. After that I went over to MSN because that seemed to be where everyone else went so no one on my ICQ list came online anymore. These days I still use MSN but I also have xfire for those in-game chats & telling team mates where enemies are & stuff.

edit: Holy s***, I just installed icq2003a I found on a CD and it still works perfectly and logs in. Why can't MSN keep the same protocol through all their versions so we can use whatever the hell version we like best?

One person is online :(

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irc, icq, msn

44144073

but my first was really win popup. We had a 50m piece of coax running over the fence to my neighbour. lan gamez

just random ppl i use to play total annihilation against. could only join via IP's there for awhile.

icq 55668371

Still remember the number

irc

IRC then ICQ#18030775. I too remember thinking who the hell would use MSN where you had to wait until someone was online to talk to them, tisk tisk.

The interesting thing is that AIM never took off in Australia, but was/is huge in the US, same with Yahoo. Not sure what MSN did right in this country.

MSN did well I think because they tied it all in with Channel Nine's website, and because it came with windows and you could use your hotmail address to login. AIM was only really pushed on people who signed up for Australia's AOL and they kinda missed the boat here I think.

I used to BBS for a while, man that was fun, way cooler than any internet! Then ICQ, can still recite my number just like everyone else... ;P After ICQ it was MSN and IRC, though IRC only for really nerdy gaming stuff. Nowadays MSN hardly ever at all and mainly Skype.

Yeah someone make an mp3 of the uhh ohh icq noise, I want that as my sms tone.

thanks!

Delivered.

http://users.on.net/~sgtpinky/icq_uhoh.mp3

hello new sms tone

Tempted.

thanks pinky :D

I don't want to get into semantics here ... but IRC is the protocol right? not the client...

Mine would have been IRCDough ( IRC client on VAX/VMS ), then IRCII, then Mirc, then ICQ then trillian for ICQ+MSN support.

Jim, have you looked into the Jabber protocol for work? We've recently run up an OpenFire server, the protocol supports both IM and chatroom ( irc channel ), can also hook into a SIP server for voice and has full LDAP auth support and all sorts of goodies.

Hmm, mirc then ICQ, 6 digit number IIRC 319623

doh it was actually 7 digit, 3199723

irc isn't really in the same vein as your icq's, msn's etc

when you guys say you used 'irc then msn' you used irc as your sole chat program?

MSN. Now MSN + Google Talk + Steam.

irc (virc - not mirc) then icq

yeh I used irc as my sole chat program
there was no icq or msn

I lie, I first used irc via telnet :D

And read email via pine

IRC and ICQ... my UIN is 171841

read email by pine

mmm pinez0r, remember when you set it up to send your email to the university of washington so they know how many people are using it!

37900440 icq then msn

there was no icq or msn

But there were plenty of bots... uuBawt, Pika-uu, Lugnutz and of course there was Megahal.... he always did like things being in the hairdryer

I lie, I first used irc via telnet :D

And read email via pine

I still read system email via Pine. It's default on [all?] linux distros as far as I know.

I used BBS via an 1800 baud modem, but I didn't speak to anyone. Just read the rubbish. Can't even remember the content to be honest.

heh I forgot about those other bots

xx_trade for another IRC bot ;)

when you guys say you used 'irc then msn' you used irc as your sole chat program?

There is no msn, only zule.

Same with me the first time I used irc was over telnet. I couldn't DCC receive so had to get help to compile some irc client on sunOS 5

it wasn't hard to do, unless you knew as little about unix as I did. then renamed the binary to "vi testprg1.c" so that irc wasn't so blatant in the processes list

mmm 17747227 or something like that......ICQ

1955324 <- (I think?)
Edit: Found email with current ICQ - 1553224

Had a 5 digit one at one stage, couldn't access old email address anymore and couldn't remember password.






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1955324 <- (I think?)

Had a 5 digit one at one stagelast edited by HERMITech at 00:23:01 18/Jul/09

Wow. O.G. ICQ gangsta