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siong1987 on Jan 14, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN : What killed ICQ?

I know why you remember that. Because you have a "eight" digit ICQ number. People at that time used to think that shorter ICQ ID was cooler.

timcederman on Jan 14, 2009 | [–]

Mine was 394868

gojomo on Jan 14, 2009 | | [–]

161192

compay on Jan 14, 2009 | | [–]

Ooohhh... 7 digits: 6980539

I signed up in 1997 or 1998... haven't used it for anything in a LONG time.

g1rlb0t on Jan 14, 2009 | | [–]

967599 ;)

mattdennewitz on Jan 14, 2009 | | [–]

used to?

pavel_lishin on Jan 14, 2009 | | [–]

5540905.

Can't believe I remembered that. It sort of rhymes in my head.

barryfandango on Jan 14, 2009 | | [–]

1703934

bootload on Jan 14, 2009 | | [–]

166482

alexkay on Jan 15, 2009 | [–]

6 digits and still using it: 666778 ;-P

cnu on Jan 15, 2009 | [–]

missed by 1?

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