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RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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[–] sturlabragason 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That wallpaper is cray!

[–] Casualsnow13 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's from the original EverQuest or one of it's early expansions.

[–] phoneymouse 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I think it’s Ruins of Kunark

https://www.keithparkinson.com/product/ruins-of-kunark-photo-stock-print/

Buy a print to support the original artist

[–] sturlabragason 2 points 6 months ago

Dude I love you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks to sharing. This art really takes me back

[–] HappycamperNZ 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would have also accepted

warcraft 3
Heros of might and Magic
Warhammer (bit of a push there though)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, fam.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 3 points 6 months ago

Nah. Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness

[–] 9point6 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The thing about that screenshot that has me curious is the shortcut to 7zip which, although it has been around for longer than I realised, no one really used until the 2nd half of the 00's

[–] sturlabragason 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t this just a screengrab from a win98 VM?

[–] 9point6 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Given the presence of 7zip almost definitely

Which makes it kinda more interesting tbh—did someone at Ars set this up to take a screenshot of ICQ? Getting a windows 98 VM set up with all that other stuff just for an article image seems like a lot of effort for a journalist who probably needs to get a few articles written a week.

If it wasn't Ars, who was it and why did they set up a somewhat period-accurate windows 98 VM and then take a screenshot of ICQ out of everything?

Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this

[–] sturlabragason 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I thoughr about doing it after suggesting that it might have been a VM. Maybe it was someone like me.

[–] 9point6 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh don't get me wrong, I get that someone might set up the VM, I just don't know why they'd do that plus then screenshot ICQ and put it somewhere online for this journalist to find

[–] jqubed 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe someone in the art department keeps a Windows 98 VM setup specifically for these tech obituaries for programs and services people thought were long dead. I don’t think I’ve used AIM/ICQ/MSN Messenger since around 2007/2008, and it was because it had become pretty dead.

[–] SlapnutsGT 5 points 6 months ago

Good ol Everquest.