Knock on ICQ: Where to go when telegrams and Facebook are banned
Dmitry Kurkin
Telegram in Russia is banned, Facebook can be blocked until the end of the year, Twitter fails, the performance of other means of communication is also questionable, since Roskomnadzor’s appetites are growing day by day. Where to go to the poor user? Where now to exchange stickers, send each other memchiki and links to Dudya with Ivangay? There is a solution: you just need to remember the messengers that were popular ten and fifteen years ago. Many of them are still working, moreover, they are working in such a way that the RKN will not get their hands on them soon - it's a pity that some have fallen asleep as MSN. Take a moment - we even prepared for you a frivolous guide to forgotten messengers.
ICQ
Vintage for true connoisseurs, the service that gave rise to the era of instant messengers in 1996. Despite the fact that they bury and burial him for at least the past ten years, he is alive and continues to kick. Having passed through the database (from video calls to - do not believe it - stickers), "ICQ", of course, lost a decent share of its charm and became similar to the standard 2017 messenger. But it’s never too late to roll back all updates back and return to the mythology behind the scenes - with the sound "a-oh!"
Yahoo! Messenger
Another dinosaur messenger (someone may even remember it under the maiden name Yahoo! Pager), who didn’t go to the innovations, finally realized that the smaller options in the messenger, the better, and first turned off the chat rooms , then built-in games, and then stopped supporting webcam. The latter, however, happened after British intelligence used an instant messenger to build a database for face recognition. But you are an honest person, because you have nothing to hide, right?
Jabber
The abundance of instant messengers is tiring, agree. Moreover, it didn’t bore yesterday, but back in 2000, when the creators of the XMPP protocol had a happy idea: to gather all the friends from different messengers on the same site. It’s not too late now, especially since jabber.org is still open to volunteers who are ready to improve the system. All that remains is to learn XML and rewrite the protocol so that it stops consuming up to 70 percent of the traffic.
Skype
Want to liven up a boring video chat with relatives or business partners? Just invite them to Skype. Login crashes, a hanging image, a sound suddenly breaking off in the middle of a conversation and just as suddenly returning from nowhere will turn the on-call conversation into a conversation with Laura Palmer in the Red Room of Twin Peaks. Glitches on Skype have become so familiar that they have long ceased to joke about them even in sitcoms, but we know that they are an uninterrupted source of life drama. Especially if you have to restore your account - it seems that more sophisticated torture in network applications has not yet been invented.
Myspaceim
Your personal pass in 2006, when MySpace was still the most fashionable social network and platform for independent musicians. Last updated nine years ago and presenting revolutionary features such as extended chat rooms, quick photo profile updates and the ability to create your own emoji, the Mayspace messenger has since gone into hibernation. MySpace itself two years ago went to Time Inc. literally "to surrender," and since the current owner is clearly not going to invest in its development, you may well become the next owner.
Mail.ru Agent
If you used other Mail.ru applications and forgot to press the necessary tick in time, there is a possibility that it is already installed on your computer and is updated by itself, even if you do not want to update it. Very comfortable, right? If you haven’t got an “Agent” yet, do it: from now on you will have only one care - how to clean the messenger from your computer so that it can no longer return to you. This will not be easy, but it is still possible.