ICQ was a key part of my realization that most people are lazy, short-sighted, idiots.
Everyone I knew wanted to use AIM. ICQ had better features (offline messaging, style overrides, you could change your name without changing your account, file transfers worked better, etc etc). But no one cared.
It’s like how people won’t get off facebook or reddit. Sometimes you have to have a little inconvenience for the greater long term benefit.
I eventually moved to Trillian because then it didn’t matter if they used ICQ, AIM, or MSN; I could use 1 thing and talk to everyone, while still having all the better features on my end.
ICQ was a key part of my realization that most people are lazy, short-sighted, idiots.
Everyone I knew wanted to use AIM. ICQ had better features (offline messaging, style overrides, you could change your name without changing your account, file transfers worked better, etc etc). But no one cared.
It’s like how people won’t get off facebook or reddit. Sometimes you have to have a little inconvenience for the greater long term benefit.
I eventually moved to Trillian because then it didn’t matter if they used ICQ, AIM, or MSN; I could use 1 thing and talk to everyone, while still having all the better features on my end.
Trillian! Hadn’t thought of that in forever.