The ICQ uh-oh is my text alert message. Has been for years. No one recognizes it anymore.
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.
That wallpaper is cray!
I think it’s Ruins of Kunark
https://www.keithparkinson.com/product/ruins-of-kunark-photo-stock-print/
Buy a print to support the original artist
I would have also accepted
- warcraft 3
- Heros of might and Magic
- Warhammer (bit of a push there though)
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
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
Just added the “uh-oh” sound as an alert tone on iOS 🫡
Set one up when I used a different handle but literally never used it. Thought I had a short ID number but, for reasons I’m not sure of, the piddly scrap of paper I wrote the number down on has always been in a particular place (and has been there for well over a decade), and it was 9 digits.
Must have been thinking of that handle’s Slashdot ID. That was 6 digits.
… and technically still is. Wow. The account is apparently still there. Not sure I’m going back there any time soon, but took this opportunity to reset the password just in case.
