I just wish they hadn’t killed off the old protocol, so that it would still be easy to be signed in using a third-party client.

But I’m thankful that as a legacy user, I’ve been brought along for the ride, as I am likely not going to produce any revenue-generating activity for mail. And that’s completely legitimate, as it really ends up being just another IM now. I understand your perspective, you’re looking for the “real” ICQ experience, and the current ICQ definitely isn’t it. What is an icq Number Home Forums The Town Center WC Site Technical Discussions What is an icq Number This topic has 7 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 22 years ago by monkhaus. The UIN was invented by Mirabilis, as the user name assigned to each user upon registration. If you look at Microsoft’s implementation of integrating Skype and Messenger/Microsoft accounts, you end up with users like live:jonathan_392819, which is no where near the existing Microsoft account name and is confusing in a lot of ways to both old and new users. ICQ (I Seek You) is an Internet tool that notifies you when other users are online and enables you to communicate with them. ICQ users are identified and distinguished from one another by UIN, or User Identification Numbers, distributed in sequential order. most of the Messengers have a global search option to find someone. Considering how many owners ICQ has had, it’s extraordinary for everything to still be there, right down to the original names (and my own rename of contacts from the late 90s). you can download the new ICQ Messenger for Windows or other operating systems.

I can log into my UIN without issue, and like you said, my old contacts have their UINs exposed as nicknames, ie. From my view that’s a great way to integrate the old with the new.

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