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7285081 - I still remember it 20 years later.

I think I was introduced to ICQ when I started playing Ultima Online. Good times, better internets back then.



Ultima Online was the best mmo I've ever played. So much flexibility and ... well it was really impossible to onboard without extensive help from everyone else on the server.

Which made it even better. Met a lot of cool people that way.

I remember one time I was playing as a girl and got somebody to "marry" me so they'd give me free stuff. Got a loooot of free stuff by being a girl on UO.

Good times.


1210407 here. The website says that my password cannot be recovered though. :(

>7285081 - I still remember it 20 years later.

There's no reason whatsoever that I should remember my ID. I haven't used the service in at least a decade, probably more. I'm often astonished at how the brain tucks away (apparently) useless information that comes to the surface via a chance stimulus. For me, such bits are sometimes many decades old and AFAIK unreferenced since being acquired. At these times I've thought to myself "there's absolutely zero reason this memory should still be in my head, it's insignificant and useless." I'd think the brain would have better uses for its limited storage, even for coldline data.


Same here. Introduced to ICQ while playing UO. Used it to ping each other when there was a rare spawn/scrolls up.

Good times.


209xxxx uo player as well with primary use coming from that. Later on a little Diablo 1 and few others as well.

Good times!




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