The thing about that screenshot that has me curious is the shortcut to 7zip which, although it has been around for longer than I realised, no one really used until the 2nd half of the 00’s
Which makes it kinda more interesting tbh—did someone at Ars set this up to take a screenshot of ICQ? Getting a windows 98 VM set up with all that other stuff just for an article image seems like a lot of effort for a journalist who probably needs to get a few articles written a week.
If it wasn’t Ars, who was it and why did they set up a somewhat period-accurate windows 98 VM and then take a screenshot of ICQ out of everything?
Maybe someone in the art department keeps a Windows 98 VM setup specifically for these tech obituaries for programs and services people thought were long dead. I don’t think I’ve used AIM/ICQ/MSN Messenger since around 2007/2008, and it was because it had become pretty dead.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I get that someone might set up the VM, I just don’t know why they’d do that plus then screenshot ICQ and put it somewhere online for this journalist to find
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Just added the “uh-oh” sound as an alert tone on iOS 🫡
And now I’m jealous of everyone who did experience it, because I have never heard of it until news of it shutting down reached my eyes.
It was never popular where I’m from. Not even AIM was well known to us.
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ICQ and prodigy online service were killer products.
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Six digits, that’s old school.
That wallpaper is cray!
The thing about that screenshot that has me curious is the shortcut to 7zip which, although it has been around for longer than I realised, no one really used until the 2nd half of the 00’s
Isn’t this just a screengrab from a win98 VM?
Given the presence of 7zip almost definitely
Which makes it kinda more interesting tbh—did someone at Ars set this up to take a screenshot of ICQ? Getting a windows 98 VM set up with all that other stuff just for an article image seems like a lot of effort for a journalist who probably needs to get a few articles written a week.
If it wasn’t Ars, who was it and why did they set up a somewhat period-accurate windows 98 VM and then take a screenshot of ICQ out of everything?
Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this
Maybe someone in the art department keeps a Windows 98 VM setup specifically for these tech obituaries for programs and services people thought were long dead. I don’t think I’ve used AIM/ICQ/MSN Messenger since around 2007/2008, and it was because it had become pretty dead.
Honestly I thoughr about doing it after suggesting that it might have been a VM. Maybe it was someone like me.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I get that someone might set up the VM, I just don’t know why they’d do that plus then screenshot ICQ and put it somewhere online for this journalist to find
That’s from the original EverQuest or one of it’s early expansions.
I would have also accepted
I think it’s Ruins of Kunark
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Good ol Everquest.
uh oh
I had a parrot at the time and she picked up on the uh oh and would repeat it, exactly like the system, all the time.
The parrot saying “Uh oh!” Is the last thing the hot blonde in a slasher movie hears.