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Time for an ICQ for the Fediverse?

Looks like ICQ is finally shutting down, just as interest in retro internet tools is growing.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june

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[–] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Hey bro! Here's some 20 year old program! We should totally reinvent it today! It's not like anyone has been working on this exact thing for the last 20 years!". Wtf is with the younger generations obsession with "retro tech"?!? "Look bro, I can do the same thing we can do now, but slower and worse!"

Also Matrix. If you're gonna suggest something, maybe make sure it doesn't already exist.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"Look bro, I can do the same thing we can do now, but slower and worse!”

Best description of Matrix (in relation to XMPP) I read in a while 😎

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

All these people "rediscovering" old tech like we didn't abandon it for a reason. No, I don't want to build a PC out of old Commodore 64s that barely works and needs to be coded in assembly when I can literally get a mini PC that's 100x more powerful for $120.