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| drinchev on Nov 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit My ICQ UID is 15584496 . I still remember people buying less-digits or easy-to-remember digits accounts for real money. Gosh, I just logged in. Kudos for not auto-deleting my account for so many years. |
 | swozey on Nov 15, 2016 | next [–] 163766. Had tons of people asking to buy it. Too bad I can't even log in since it's tied to my email address from 4th or 5th grade. I think the numbers started at 100000. Prior to that, elementary school, I used PowWow and Mplayer to socialize with pretty much only Californians.. since everyone on the internet back then lived in CA. That was a weird time. I of course was 18 for.. oh, 10 years. I believe I've met 2-3 people with lower numbers than mine. edit: Wow, just signed in, been awhile. None of my friends online and the web app doesn't tell you their last time online. Not sure if the desktop apps still do. |
| | bwoodward on Nov 15, 2016 | parent | next [–] You can get it back! I was in the same spot. Contact ICQ support and tell them that you no longer have access to that email. You'll confirm your UIN and a few names from your user list. It took about a day to get mine back. |
| | 6stringmerc on Nov 16, 2016 | root | parent | next [–] Thanks for this post - I've contacted them and intend to get my old account back too! 48xxxx level. |
| | jeduardo on Nov 15, 2016 | parent | prev | next [–] 157xxx here. Logged in just for kicks and found out that yes, the password still works. :) I don't remember meeting anyone with a lower number than mine, although I was aware that, at least on the global user directory, there were 2 people in my city with a lower number, both related. In my case I got last online times for several people (mobile app) but mostly all from 2015. I wonder if that's in any way related with the govt blocking WhatsApp that year... |
| | Elhana on Nov 15, 2016 | parent | prev | next [–] Numbers started at 10000, uin 31337 was one of the AOL admins. 141181 here btw, everyone is offline. One friend used icq until maybe a year ago, offline now too. |
| | saganus on Nov 15, 2016 | parent | prev | next [–] I remember that once I started looking for really low numbers and I believe in the 100s range you could find Mirabilis developers. |
| | larrik on Nov 15, 2016 | parent | prev | next [–] Wow, I thought mine in the 400k's was low. I lost it, though. |
| | swozey on Nov 15, 2016 | root | parent | next [–] I remember meeting a 14xxxx or 13xxxx once! Maybe both. |
| | mutagen on Nov 15, 2016 | prev | next [–] 538342. Had a weak / compromised password for ages, I'm surprised to have been able to access my account and change to a stronger password. I'm not sure the popularity of 6 digit accounts and the password compromise times overlapped much though. Had some great times chatting to people all around the world on ICQ. I think I still have a couple of FB friends from that era. I was bouncing an idea of an IRC like pager app around in my head in the months before I became aware of ICQ (but well after it was already developed). |
| | glandium on Nov 16, 2016 | parent | next [–] I'm surprised I remembered the password at all, and I can't change it without giving out a mobile phone number for a SMS. No thanks. |
| | proactivesvcs on Nov 16, 2016 | root | parent | next [–] "Your account has been compromised, you must enter a mobile to enable 2FA"? I got that when trying to troll, uh I mean chat, a group chat last night. |
| | glandium on Nov 16, 2016 | root | parent | next [–] The form looks like: Change Password [ Password field for current password ] (i) Passwords must contain 8-16 symbols. They must include numbers and uppercase and lower case Latin letters. [ New Password field ] [ Confirm Password field ] (i) Get SMS code via mobile phone number to confirm new password [ Country code selector ] [ Phone number field ] [ Request SMS button ] |
| | WA on Nov 15, 2016 | prev | next [–] The trick was this: back then you'd check the associated email addresses of low ICQ numbers. If it was Yahoo, Hotmail and the like, there was a small chance that the email address expired and could be re-registered. The forgot password thing then gave you access to the ICQ account. |
| | kaivi on Nov 15, 2016 | prev | next [–] 180662, and I am still using it! |
| | mikehall314 on Nov 15, 2016 | prev [–] 11997634 |
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