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In 1999, my future wife and I, after an initial in person meeting, chatted incessantly over ICQ. It's how we really got to know each other.

To this day, this 'uh-oh!' sound makes me tingle all over.



The ICQ “uh-oh!” sound is still the iMessage custom sound for my best friend’s contact, because I remember spending sleepless muddy summer nights of 1999 chatting with him on the crazy realtime chat feature.


I think you can thank Mirabilis founders! So much people have good memories thanks to ICQ.


Yup. It also had random chat feature which i enjoyed quite a lot. Made my first online friends (whom i ended up meeting in real life, and are still friends with to date).


Similar story here, but for me and my (now ex-)wife, it was AIM.




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