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Sep 11, 2026
GaryHOST
The only way to communicate with people in downtown New York City during that time was something called AOL Messenger.
GaryHOST
It might have been ICQ, but those instant messengers were the only way to communicate with people and people had to be at their desk to use those messengers.
GaryHOST
I remember being in Los Angeles and being told, stay away from the airport, stay away from public centers because America is under attack.
GaryHOST
The world has changed so much, but one thing remains the same.
Kay SavetzHOST
Some of them were so filled with spam, especially at the end, ended up with 17 PDFs.
Kay SavetzHOST
The groups include Atari MIDI, Jaguar Community United, Atari Universe, more Atari MIDI, Atari MICQ, which honestly I don't even remember what that is, Sin Atari, the Cincinnati Atari users group, Atari 2600, and most importantly, Atari Home Computers 8-bit.
Kay SavetzHOST
So those are all there and kind of brought back from the dead.
Kay SavetzHOST
And they're these nice, pretty PDFs that you can download or search on archive.
Danny PalmerGUEST
MSN Messenger?
Graham CluleyHOST
I have it down as ICQ.
Graham CluleyHOST
I don't know if AOL did it as well.
Danny PalmerGUEST
They all blended into one.
Danny PalmerGUEST
There's so many of them.
Graham CluleyHOST
ICQ was really the Tinder of its day.
Danny PalmerGUEST
Everyone wanted to know your age, your sex, your location, wasn't it? It was ASL they'd ask.
Danny PalmerGUEST
Yeah, Scott.
Andrew GrantGUEST
I'd like to know more about why do you do this? What are you trying to do here? And that was the start of a conversation that went for two and a half days.
Andrew GrantGUEST
At the time, the person wanted me to use ICQ, which is an instant messaging program.
Andrew GrantGUEST
So I created an ICQ account and chatted with this person.
Andrew GrantGUEST
And it turned out that the guy who was running this, I assume it's a guy, I don't know for sure, He was in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.
Andrew GrantGUEST
It was during one of the color revolutions that was happening in the Middle East.
RichardAUDIENCE
And three hours in front of a screen? For sure, even way back then.
RichardAUDIENCE
We used to have these programs we download on our computers called ICQ, or then there was MSN Messenger.
RichardAUDIENCE
It was kind of like a precursor to being able to text message from your phone.
RichardAUDIENCE
And you'd be on the computer after school all night chatting with your friends for three hours minimum.
Guang Jin YeoHOST
What happens during that time? OICQ was launched.
Guang Jin YeoHOST
What's OICQ? OICQ is an Israeli chat app that the name ICQ was supposed to mean I seek you, right? It's like Messenger or it's like MSN or back in the past, but MSN in a much more rudimentary form.
Guang Jin YeoHOST
OICQ, right, became one of the most popular messenger app in the world.
Guang Jin YeoHOST
How many users did they have? 10 million users.
Guang Jin YeoHOST
ICQ, right? Yes, ICQ.
Guang Jin YeoHOST
Yes, sorry, ICQ.
Guang Jin YeoHOST
OICQ is the duplicate that they would make.
Guang Jin YeoHOST
Spoiler.
Erin HopkinsHOST
Isn't that nice? Yeah.
Erin HopkinsHOST
This text says the ICQ uh-oh or the MSN notification.
Erin HopkinsHOST
I never had ICQ, but I did have MSN.
Erin HopkinsHOST
And oh my God, all of the MSN sounds are so nostalgic.
Erin HopkinsHOST
Like all of these.
5 MINS LATER
Erin HopkinsHOST
cry?
Peter HarrisonHOST
That is so cute.
Erin HopkinsHOST
Okay, ICQ's coming in all the time.
Marco MatosGUEST
I think the chat interface has been around.
Marco MatosGUEST
You want to talk about old guys, for those of us that remember ICQ and the original AOL Insta Messenger.
Marco MatosGUEST
Yeah, I remember.
Marco MatosGUEST
I'm with you.
MichaelHOST
I will say I had to go take a peek.
MichaelHOST
So thinking about those early days at CDS and we've talked about dating in the past, we all had our electronic dating through MSN, through ICQ, through all of our old tools.
MichaelHOST
So tell me a little bit about your first instant messaging experience.
MichaelHOST
What was your email? Tell me a little bit about flirting back then and how you leveraged that tool.
Iliana Grosse-BueningGUEST
Well, it's an expression term.
Iliana Grosse-BueningGUEST
This is kind of what happens when you start with a Nokia phone and then suddenly you add an ICQ account and then you add an iPod and some listeners will relate to this journey, some won't because this was before their time.
Iliana Grosse-BueningGUEST
So slowly... technology creeps into every aspect of our lives and we kind of did this whole journey right at some point a laptop and then more and more things and then maybe a blackberry and then an iphone at some point and i think it's this taken for grantedness but we just forgot we have a choice of what role technology has in our lives sometimes when i have conversations with my students and they say well that's just how it is you know and they would say well that's just their business model And again, here it's a taken for grantedness because that is what is being practiced in the systems around us.
Iliana Grosse-BueningGUEST
That's what's being practiced in schools and in communities and environments.
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