Henry Fisher<p>It's a good time to remember the long-forgotten programs like ICQ and QIP, where the only thing left from the good old ICQ is the "o-ou" sound. They already had their own emojis and icons, and in the latest versions even their own qip.ru account. But I agree, it was a good thing! It made ICQ more comfortable and interesting. Just a plugin like the one that fetched the current song from Winamp and put the title in ICQ status was worth a lot!</p><p>It was amazing that ICQ had an open protocol that allowed you to write your own clients. I remember a rebellious one under Mandriva Linux that I built from source code. It took an enormous amount of energy. Especially later with the encodings. But what joy it was when everything started working stably!</p><p>In the picture is my honeymoon with Linux. I started making these kinds of screenshots before it became mainstream 😬</p><p><a href="https://dindon.one/tags/Nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://dindon.one/tags/ICQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICQ</span></a> <a href="https://dindon.one/tags/QIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QIP</span></a> <a href="https://dindon.one/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://dindon.one/tags/TechMemoryWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechMemoryWorld</span></a></p>