#aol software

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AOL 7.0 (2001)

[icqmuseum24]

📞💔 To our great regret, following in the footsteps of Russia’s VK Group and its quiet farewell to ICQ, Microsoft has now officially shut down Skype — a true legend of the 2000s internet era. What once defined how we connected, called, and chatted across the globe has been silenced… not by users, but by boardroom decisions.

💻 Skype wasn't just software — it was a cultural milestone. It brought faces to voices, bridged continents in seconds, and made "Skyping" a verb in dozens of languages. Its shutdown is not just sad — it's irreplaceable. Another digital monument lost to corporate fatigue.

📉 This only proves one thing: well-paid marketers and project managers have repeatedly failed to breathe new life into legacy platforms. Instead of adapting tradition to modern times, they let icons wither. And for what? Another feature-bloated app with no soul?

🌐 But we haven’t lost hope. If Winamp can rise from the ashes, why not Skype? Why not AIM? Why not ICQ? Maybe, just maybe, it won’t be Microsoft or VK who lead the resurrection — maybe it’ll be an indie developer or a bold startup that understands nostalgia can be modern.

👀 Paging Yahoo Inc. and AOL… We’re waiting.

[serenova]

Getting trained as a pharmacy tech at work..

One of the acronyms in the computer system is ICQ

...I've been on the internet way too long because fuck if I can remember what it stands for at work, because the IMMEDIATE association in my brain is ICQ Messenger

Y'know .. this thing:

Yeah... That's ALL I can fucking think of when I read that acronym

[ammodup]

hiii!! this might be a stupid question, but do you have any headcanons on how andre + cal would act online? like would they have their own webpages, and how they would chat and stuff like that :p

also, i love your writing so much <3

Hii!! :3 That’s not a stupid question at all !! And TYSMM IM SO GLAD :D <33 These were fun to make, I hope you like these!

Andre and Cal Online Headcanons,,

Andre’s username on his favorite social/chatting websites is @ak47_0717, while Cal’s is @gunslinger83. The reasoning behind their usernames, first of all, is that Andre’s initials are AK. Because of his unsettling interest in firearms, he’s bound to be interested in one of the most popular guns in the world— the AK-47. He likes having his initials similar to the “AK” in AK-47. The four numbers at the end of his username are his birthday. Cal’s username is pretty self-explanatory; he calls himself a gunslinger, and the ‘83’ at the end of his username is the year he was born.

Andre and Cal talk to each other on AOL, which was one of the most popular online services for internet users at the time. They also chat on MSN Messenger, and they used to communicate on ISQ, which was more popular in their middle school years and early high school years— the late 90s.

With Blogger having been established in 1999, Andre and Calvin created accounts. They follow gun blogs and blogs dedicated to books, movies, and bands they like. Also, Andre follows— although he doesn’t really interact with— the Iroquois Track Team and Science Club blog pages. Cal follows the school band’s page. Despite following different blogs, they don’t really post much on Blogger; they like to stay relatively quiet and unnoticed. Andre does leave hate comments on posts from people he doesn’t like. Since anonymity wasn’t as robust as it would come to be in the mid 2000s— the years following Cal and Andre’s deaths— he made an alt account with a fake name for the sole purpose of hating on the Iroquois Wrestling Team blog page… for obvious reasons having to do with Brad Huff. He also leaves hate comments on Rachel’s posts. Cal mentions this mysterious user to Andre sometimes, mentioning how Rachel talks about how this unknown person on the internet criticizes her posts. Andre plays dumb and acts uninterested, yet he listens intently, replying with soft “Mhm”s, as well as a “Damn, that sucks”. He doesn’t want Cal growing suspicious.

They play girls’ flash games both for the hell of it and for the irony. They get relatively entertained from these online dress-up, salon, and cooking games, with Cal being aware these games are aimed at girls. He intentionally makes his character look ugly and goes into hysterical laughter over it— he absolutely laughs at the stupidest shit. However, Andre actually tries and is surprisingly concentrated on the game, face frozen with stoicism and focus. Andre would never admit it, but with his family having a cat, Mel, he finds pet care flash games to be genuinely fun.

Andre and Cal illegally download music and share it with each other by Napster or by email. They’ve sacrificed their computers for the sake of copying a System of a Down song onto their files for free, instead of physically buying the CD. In 1998, when Andre was still a freshman in high school, he ended up getting the CIH virus (Chernobyl virus) which practically wrecked his software and ruined his computer. Whole Calvin teased him for getting such a destructive virus on his computer, he ended up informing his parents. He’d told them that Andre needed a new computer, and he suggested that they pitch in to help Andre’s parents buy him a new computer for his 16th birthday in the summer. Because for the time being, Andre would have to use Cal’s.

Andre and Cal share similar humor in most areas. And since internet memes were beginning to rise in popularity, the two boys send or email each other dark humor memes and chuckle at them.

If they were alive in 2003, they would have used 4chan !!

Andre uses all types of different acronyms when chatting, such as but not limited to “ROFL”, “LOL”, “LMFAO”, “BRB”, “ILY”, “IDK”, and “BTW”. He often capitalizes the first letter of his messages and types faces like “:-)” and “>:(”.

Cal, too, uses many acronyms online. He also types with no capital letters, and he often takes shortcuts when he’s chatting with Andre. He creates little faces with the keys on his keyboard and copies and pastes special symbols online. When he’s typing to Andre first, his first message is usually a simple, “hi” of some sort.

They both play Doom together, considering how 1993 Doom was multiplayer when it first came out.

GeoCities !! Cal and Andre created their own website for the Army of Two. They didn’t necessarily say much on the site, and they didn’t give the site name to anyone they knew. But they still specified who they were and their interests without giving away their last names.

In addition, Andre and Cal used GeoCities to make a screamer site, and they made different alt emails to troll Brad Huff by sending the link to him, without him finding out who they were.

Sometime during the final week before Zero Day, their last few days of being alive, they’d both typed up a short, lovesick letter in their notepads— two messages they’d always wanted to tell each other but never got the chance to. Cal had gone on a tangent about how much he enjoyed being Andre’s comrade, how much he enjoyed Andre being his. Also, he was saying his goodbyes before their final mission and how he loved Andre and hoped he’d see him on the flip side. Whereas Andre was saying how he was looking forward to escaping the school with Cal and how he hoped they’d have a better life together, even while they were wanted from the cops. He mentioned how he loved Cal, too, but with his own phrasing of that declaration. But that ended up being an unrealistic expectation on Andre’s end.

[cyberpunkonline]

THE AESTHETICS OF ABANDONWARE: WHY DEAD SOFTWARE FEELS HOLY

By R A Z, Queen of Glitches, Rat Prophet of the Post-Crash Pixel-Chapel

INTRO: Oi, you ever boot up a DOSBox emulator and feel your soul whisper "Amen"? No? Then saddle up, you absolute fetus, 'cause we’re going full pilgrimage through the haunted cathedrals of dead code, cursed shareware, and disc rot salvation. This is for the ones who dream in .BMPs, weep in MIDI, and hit “Yes to All” when copying cracked ZIPs from forgotten FTPs at 3AM. Abandonware ain’t just nostalgia—it’s digital necromancy. And some of us are bloody good at it.

DEAD SOFTWARE = HOLY SHRINE

Let’s be clear: abandonware is software that’s been, well, abandoned. The devs moved on. The publisher collapsed in a puff of VC smoke. The website's now a spammy shell selling beard oil or crack cocaine. The software? Unupdated. Unsupported. Gloriously obsolete.

So why does launching Hover! or Starship Titanic in 2025 feel like entering a chapel with weird lighting and a dial-up modem choir?

Because it’s sacred, mate.

We’re not talking about the games themselves being perfect. A lot of them were janky as hell. We’re talking vibe. These programs exist outside capitalism now. They’re post-market. Post-hype. They don’t want your money, your updates, your logins. They just want your attention—pure and simple. You’re not a user anymore. You’re a curator. A digital monk brushing dust off EXEs and praying to the Gods of IRQ Conflicts and SoundBlaster settings.

WHY IT HITS DIFFERENT

Dead software doesn’t update. It doesn’t push patches or ads. It won’t ask you to connect your Google account to play Math Blaster. It’s a sealed time capsule. Booting it up is like receiving an artifact from a parallel dimension where the internet still had webrings and every kid thought Quake mods would lead to a dream job at ID Software.

But it also represents a lost sincerity. These weren’t games made to hook you for eternity with algorithms. These were games made by six dudes in a shed with a caffeine problem and one working CD burner. And their README files were poetry. Half of them end with “Contact us on AOL or send a floppy to our PO Box.” What do you mean you don’t know what a PO Box is?

FOR THE ZOOMIES: YOU JUST MISSED THE GOLDEN ROT

Listen up, juniors. If you were born after 2005, you missed the age when the internet was held together with chewing gum, JPEG artifacts, and unspoken respect.

Back then, finding a rare game was an adventure. Not an algorithm. You didn’t scroll TikTok and get spoon-fed vibes. You climbed through broken Geocities links and begged on IRC channels. You learned to read. You learned to search. You learned that “No-CD crack” doesn’t mean what your mum thinks it means.

So here’s your initiation: go download something weird from a forgotten archive. No guides. No Discord server. Just the raw, terrifying joy of not knowing if you’ve just installed Robot Workshop Deluxe or a Russian trojan. Welcome to the cult.

THE TWO-YEAR RULE

Online communities? They’re mayflies with usernames. Peak lifespan? Two years.

Here’s the cycle:

A niche game/tool/art style gets revived.

People form a forum/Reddit/Discord.

A zine or remix scene emerges.

Drama. Mods quit. Someone forks the project.

Everyone vanishes.

This cycle has always existed. The only difference now is that it’s faster. But dead software bypasses this. It’s post-community. You don’t have to join a scene. You are the scene. Every time you open it up, you’re plugging into a ghost socket. You’re chatting with echoes. It’s beautiful.

CONCLUSION: THIS IS A RELIGION NOW. PRACTICE IT.

Abandonware isn’t about gaming. It’s about reclaiming reverence. About saying “This mattered” even if no one else remembers it did. It’s about surfing the ruins, not for loot, but for meaning. There’s holiness in opening a program that hasn’t been touched in decades and seeing it still works. Still waits for you. Still loads that same intro MIDI with the confidence of a god.

So light a candle. Install a CRT filter. Screenshot that low-res menu and print it on a t-shirt. You’re not just playing with the past. You’re preserving the bones of the digital age.

See you in the BIOS, kids.

—

RAZ out.

[telesilla]

So something came up on Bluesky, a question:

legitimately why are you here (on social media)? i am asking myself the same (other than because of addiction).

And it’s kind of wild, because when I did the math, it is literally 30 years since a very cold night in January of ‘95 when I figured out how to venture from the safe and tame world of AOL out into the wilds of USENET. I spent several hours on a newsgroup dedicated to the works of one of my favorite fantasy authors from my teen years, having a discussion about magic and Christianity with a software engineer in Rotterdam and it was like, oh this is a new thing. I was seriously struggling in those days, figuring out my identity and also the mental illness was coming to the surface more and more, but I knew I’d found a new and important place.

In the last 30 years, I’ve experienced the best and worst of the Internet. I’ve started two relationships online that led to marriage—one disastrous and one happy—and I’ve been through countless flame wars and endless wanks. I have met some amazing people and, to paraphrase, some insufferable people who also met me. And I’ve written. 3m+ words of fiction and who knows how many words of just me talking to people and, sometimes, just yelling into the void. Before February of ‘95 I had never finished a story, because why bother? Writing on paper is hard for me and I only got my PC that Christmas and anyway, I’d told myself stories my whole life. But now…now, I had someone to share them with.

The Internet is younger than I am, but it fits into a long line of brilliant human inventions, from the spoken word, to writing, to printing, to instant communications like telegraphs and telephones, each one seemingly requiring faster and faster adoption. We’re still dealing with the ramifications of instantaneous communication and that was over 100 years ago. No one reading this will be alive when we are able to look back and see how the Internet and social media shaped us as a species.

It’s so easy to look at Elon throwing a Nazi salute and think, “the Internet was a mistake” but tbh, it’s too late for that. I’m sure at least one person looked at the violence and chaos of the Reformation and thought, goddam Gutenberg, this is all your fault. And idk, man, maybe I’m just a naive optimist, but right now, on a cold January night, when the world feels dark, Mongolian horse ranchers are bonding with USAmerican horse girls, and people are watching videos of snowball fights in New Orleans, and someone somewhere is coming out to their online friends using words they might not have had when I was born, and all around the world conversations are happening between people who would never meet face to face—so many flickers of light. Maybe, just maybe, the real Internet is the friends we made along the way.

Happy Internet Anniversary to me.

[collapsedsquid]

In 1989, when Firmage was 17, he’d founded a software company in Salt Lake City called Serius, which he quickly sold to Novell, a big networking-technology company, for more than $22 million. At age 25, while he was an executive at Novell, he co-founded another company, USWeb. This enterprise, which helped companies establish an online presence on the early internet, went public with a $2.5 billion market cap and an estimated 50% share of the market for web design services. Its clients included AOL, Apple and 20th Century Fox. In 1998, at the height of the dot-com boom, Forbes listed Firmage among 13 “Masters of the New Universe” alongside Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos.Firmage during his 2020 presidential campaign.Source: Joseph Firmage for President “The whole time I was working with him, I thought, ‘Life led me to someone who’s going to be, like, a Steve Jobs, super billionaire guy,’ ” says Bruce Gilpin, a former USWeb executive. “I was convinced I was going to spend my career with Joe.”

[...] The younger Firmage was short, with boyishly thick brown hair and a wide nose. A workaholic known to linger at the office past midnight, he was an avowed teetotaler; one early employee recalled him ordering a glass of milk at a steakhouse. And he wasn’t a conspicuous spender, apart from a red Corvette with the vanity plate “USWEB.” “It wasn’t like he would wear million-dollar watches,” says Linda Keala, USWeb’s former human resources director. “He wasn’t that kind of guy.” But then came a self-immolation of intergalactic proportions. One day in 1998, Firmage began to tell colleagues that, as he later recounted to the press, an otherworldly “being clothed in brilliant bright light” had appeared in his bedroom. “He said, ‘Why have you bothered me?’ ” Firmage recounted. “And I said, ‘Because I want to travel in space.’ ” He later said the being emitted a blue sphere that entered his body and caused “the most unimaginable ecstasy I have ever experienced, a pleasure vastly beyond orgasm.”

[...] Firmage had assured the couple that a $200 million government contract was in the works and that they could expect strong returns. In the meantime he sent Vega videos of his prototypes, including a spinning gyro called the Accelerometer that he said could power antigravity propulsion. He touted a roster of distinguished backers: hotel chain heir and former US Representative David Daniel Marriott; Arizona State University physicist David Hestenes; and General Wesley Clark, who’d served as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander for Europe during the 1990s. (All of them really were Firmage supporters, Bloomberg Businessweek confirmed.) Firmage also stressed that his father maintained elite connections in Washington. A few of his longtime associates, people who’d invested more money than Vega and her husband, also helped temper their doubts. Despite Firmage’s eccentricities, they assured the Vegas, he was a genuine “genius” on the cusp of revolutionary change.

Folks this is why the US government want to censor Bloomberg, it's too revolutionary for US govt employees to be reading

[cyber-sec]

𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 & 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗽 | 𝟭𝟬 𝗙𝗲𝗯 - 𝟭𝟲 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

1️⃣ 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗙𝗧 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼��𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵 𝗔𝗣𝗜 FINALDRAFT is targeting Windows and Linux systems, leveraging Microsoft Graph API for espionage. Source: https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/fragile-web-ref7707

2️⃣ 𝗦𝗸𝘆 𝗘𝗖𝗖 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 Four distributors of the criminal-encrypted service Sky ECC were arrested in Spain and the Netherlands. Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/sky-ecc-encrypted-service-distributors-arrested-in-spain-netherlands/

3️⃣ 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵: 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝟮𝗙𝗔 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗶𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 The Astaroth phishing kit is used to bypass 2FA and steal credentials from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, O365, and third-party logins. Source: https://slashnext.com/blog/astaroth-a-new-2fa-phishing-kit-targeting-gmail-yahoo-aol-o365-and-3rd-party-logins/

4️⃣ 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰’𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗺𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 RansomHub overtook competitors in 2024, hitting over 600 organisations worldwide. Source: https://www.group-ib.com/blog/ransomhub-never-sleeps-episode-1/

5️⃣ 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻: 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝘇𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 The Seashell Blizzard subgroup runs a multiyear global operation for continuous access and data theft. Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/02/12/the-badpilot-campaign-seashell-blizzard-subgroup-conducts-multiyear-global-access-operation/

Additional Cybersecurity News:

🟢 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼-𝗗𝗮𝘆 Apple patches a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting iOS devices. Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/106731-apple-fixes-another-actively-exploited-zero-day-vulnerability.html

🟠 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝘀 "𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲" 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹 Japan is moving towards offensive cybersecurity tactics with a new legislative push. Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/japan-offense-new-cyber-defense-bill

🔴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗔𝗜 𝗩𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 A severe flaw in NVIDIA AI software has been discovered, enabling container escapes. Source: https://www.wiz.io/blog/nvidia-ai-vulnerability-deep-dive-cve-2024-0132

[fishmech]

while i agree with this post, this is also how most forms of media existed before the mass adoption of broadband internet lol

magazines, newspapers, lots of books - particularly low cost publishers and paperbacks, home video media, some kinds of radio, most kinds of tv, you could even run into that shit on certain phone planes, your local phonebook, the placemats at your local diner/family restaurant and occasionally some chains, most video games in their original packaging, most paid software in some form but especially packaged, cheap dialup services, pricy online services (your aol, your compuserve, etc), and so on

the rise of broadband internet and temporary getting by on money being set on fire by stupid but very rich investors was the first time a lot of forms of media or services in general would let you have just plain paid without advertising or even free without advertising services of all sorts of natures.

it reminds me of how there was a big post a while back from a zoomer who was shocked that newspapers (still) charge money for access to their back catalog for obituaries as well as everything else. they didn't even understand that placing your obituary in a newspaper is and was not a free service you just get, but something a family member or friend has to pay for, and you had to buy the newspaper issue it was in if you wanted to see it. and they didn't understand that the free-to-you way to access such a service was to go check in with a library or university in the area that had themselves paid for that issue via a subscription in order to keep it in their holdings, possibly even convert it to microfilm or digital storage, in order that you would see it.

that's a whole system of paid services that sure you wouldn't think of if all your perceptions of the services involved was based around using the loss-leader era of news and never having much reason to try to find a specific old article before, but noone would be surprised by having to pay for that or hit up a library in like, 2005. no one was surprised by paid tv having ads still on most channels or a dvd or videotape having trailer ads in the medium and probably additional ads packed into the box. that was everyday reality for billions of people using such things around the world

[randomthefox]

Good morning, Chrono.

Anyone ever make a list of JRPGs that start with the main character being woken up when they were sleeping in? It's gotta be at least eight pages long. Single spaced.

Man, I wish AI gave us Net Navi's like Megaman.exe instead of what we actually have with fucking chatgpt. I really love the idea of Navi's. Little sentient computer programs that you send into the internet and other smart devices to have them interface with the software? That's such a cool little speculative technology concept.

This game series rather infamously made a lot of "predictions" about how the technology of the internet would develop. And it is shocking how accurate they ended up being, considering this first game came out in 2001. For you kids who were born before 9/11, at this point in time not many households had an internet connection and those that did were using dial up and internet was charged by the minute like it was making a phone call. AOL was sold on discs that offered free minutes of internet usage. This is what connecting to the internet looked like.

Considering that, it's kind of amazing how the biggest oversight this game series made was not being able to predict the invention and mass utilization of WiFi and bluetooth signals. But then who could have seen that coming all the way back then?

Jeez. The world is completely unrecognizable compared to what it looked like when I was a kid.

Anyway, the idea of having a little computer program who was alive to send into the internet to deliver your emails for you was a pretty fun idea at the time all things considered. It's not like anyone really understood what the hell was happening when you sent something through the internet. Again, anyone who had the internet was using AOL, which did represent the concept of sending an email as a little dude delivering a letter by hand. So, the whole Net Navi concept is basically just a further anthropomorphization of how we were already contextualizing the net back then.

[oldwindowsicons]

AIM 5.5 (2004)

[icqmuseum24]

🌐 In an effort to bring instant messaging on the go, ICQ developed a client for PalmOS. This move allowed users to stay connected even while away from their desktops. The PalmOS ICQ client featured the core functionalities that made ICQ popular: sending and receiving messages, changing statuses, and managing contact lists.

📲 PalmOS was known for its simplicity and efficiency, making it a favorite among mobile users. It offered a unique combination of a touch interface and a physical keyboard, which made typing messages quick and easy. Bringing ICQ to PalmOS meant tapping into a growing market of mobile professionals and tech enthusiasts who valued portability without sacrificing functionality.

✨ Key Features of ICQ for PalmOS:

➡️ Messaging on the Go: Stay connected with friends and colleagues by sending and receiving instant messages.

➡️ Status Updates: Let your contacts know if you’re available, busy, or away with easy status updates.

➡️ Contact Management: Easily add, remove, and manage your ICQ contacts.

➡️ Portable Communication:** Enjoy the flexibility of ICQ’s messaging capabilities right from your PalmOS device.

🔒 One of the standout features was the security ICQ provided. Even on PalmOS, ICQ maintained its standards for protecting user data, ensuring that conversations remained private and secure.

💾 ICQ’s expansion to PalmOS was a significant step in the evolution of mobile messaging. It showcased the potential of mobile devices to support full-fledged communication platforms, paving the way for the sophisticated mobile messengers we use today.

[regicidal-defenestration]

Read old enough computing articles and you can find gems such as "cookies are counted as spyware"

[ID: Text reading "According to a November 2004 study by AOL and the National Cyber-Security Alliance, 80% of surveyed users' computers had some form of spyware, with an average of 93 spyware components per computer (such counts usually include 'cookies' which report back to a website, but are not software as such). 89% of surveyed users with spyware reported that they did not know of its presence, and 95% reported that they had not given permission for the installation of the spyware." End ID]

[net-archived]

tags for image organization below ＞＞ ✰::.

✰hardware

#auditory device, #cd, #commodore amiga 500, #computer mouse, #dell, #dig labtam, #dvd, #home computer, #hp pavillion laptop, #ibook, #ibook clamshell, #mac, #macintosh se, #old hardware, #sony qualia, #sony qualia 017

✰software

#browser, #compuserve, #display properties, #flash player, #internet explorer, #internet explorer 2, #internet explorer 4, #internet explorer 6, #linux, #ms paint, #netscape navigator, #old software, #operating system, #pop-up, #search engine, #solitaire, #windows, #windows 98, #windows xp

✰aesthetics

#aquatic, #cybercore, #frutiger aero, #frutiger metro, #girly, #gothic, #horror, #kawaii, #older brother, #ricing, #vaporwave, #webcore

✰brands/companies

#apple, #google, #hotmail, #microsoft, #nintendo, #sony

✰decades

#1980s, #1990s, #2000s, #2010s

✰sites & networks

#advertisement, #aol, #blog, #e-card, #email, #forums, #geocities, #old net, #old web, #social media, #youtube, #windows live messenger

✰topics

#alien movie, #animals, #american psycho, #anime, #art, #audition movie, #cats, #education, #fandom, #fashion, #ice cream, #movies, #music, #neopets, #pokemon, #romance, #sims, #warrior cats