AlexH

I just had my friend Jason send me an ICQ message saying that I’ve been the only one on his ICQ contact list for the last 1.5 years, wondering if I have MSN. Of course it doesn’t *really* matter what protocol we’re using, since I use centericq and he uses Trillian, but it still makes me sad to see that ICQ is going the way of the dinosaurs.

Back in the day, when it was the real geeks that were using IM, it was ICQ only (IRC doesn’t count, it’s channel based). Now I’m feeling like a cranky old man complaining that the teenagers have wrecked it for everyone.

Can’t fight progress I guess, because even I can’t really find much to complain about MSN Messenger. It is nice to be able to set your nick whenever you feel like, I usually change mine about 4 times a day.

There are still some holdouts in my ICQ account and these last few people are so set in their ways that it’s going to take Mirabillis going out of business for them to stop using ICQ. I’ll be there until the end too.