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LastActionHero
October 4th, 2001, 03:28
Check it out (http://www.icq.com/alpha)

New features (http://www.icq.com/alpha/new_features.html)

Personally I recommend Trillian (http://www.trillian.cc)
Toefur
October 4th, 2001, 03:31
Hm. Interesting.

I wonder if it's any good.

Probably not.

I've noticed each year I dislike it more.

I might install it...hmm... i dont use icq much anymore, it's just a pain.

I also tried Trillian for a few weeks once, but I just can't get into it... maybe i'll give it another go.
sp0radic
October 4th, 2001, 03:44
*goes off and downloads it*
bigperm
October 4th, 2001, 04:07
I hate ICQ very much.

Did 2000 ever get out of beta?
AsianDOC
October 4th, 2001, 04:26
Originally posted by bigperm
I hate ICQ very much.

Did 2000 ever get out of beta?
No. ICQ never gets out of Beta. They label their software. Limited Time Beta (or something like that).
bigperm
October 4th, 2001, 05:44
That makes another entry in my "Reasons I hate ICQ" list.
AsianDOC
October 4th, 2001, 06:16
Share and exchange files ----> Peer2Peer. Do you think they are going to shut down ICQ as well? Heh...
trenzterra
October 4th, 2001, 06:24
I hate 2000B. Starts on startup, have to disable it. And all the homepages thing, it sets my start page as icq.com although I change it. Sucks, eh?
LastActionHero
October 4th, 2001, 06:27
This is biggest improvement IMO


Contact List on Servers - ICQ 2001b saves your ICQ Contact List on the ICQ servers. This means that when you use your own ICQ# to log in to ICQ from any computer, you can access your Contact List.

I just hope ICQ's servers don't crash because of the load.
LeX
October 4th, 2001, 06:45
ICQ 2001b alpha?!?!?!?! I thought the "b" standed for "beta"... hmm, an alpha version of the beta. Cool. :confused:

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Never mind, I think I understand it now... @@
Ben
October 4th, 2001, 09:02
Does ICQ2001 bog up all the RAM like ICQ2000b? Is it less than 10 megs?

I stopped using ICQ right after i downloaded 2000b. .....2000b....:nervous:

my extremely old computer only has 24 megs of RAM and 30 megs left on the HDD.
LeX
October 4th, 2001, 09:08
Why don't you try it for youself and see? :p

I like how you can choose what useless features you want and don't want now. I still hate how they implemented horrible ads on it. :mad:

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What's the URL to the site that teaches you how to remove the banners again?
trenzterra
October 4th, 2001, 09:59
Originally posted by HTML-Guru
Does ICQ2001 bog up all the RAM like ICQ2000b? Is it less than 10 megs?

I stopped using ICQ right after i downloaded 2000b. .....2000b....:nervous:

my extremely old computer only has 24 megs of RAM and 30 megs left on the HDD. my quite new computer has 28MB of ram and 1gb left/
Toefur
October 4th, 2001, 10:10
ICQ 2001b saves your ICQ Contact List on the ICQ servers.

Now THAT is something that will make me consider using ICQ more.

Pah. The amount of times I have had to re-add people to it, digging up these weird numbers from all over the place. PAH!
Valuablehost
October 4th, 2001, 10:56
Hehe, main reason i switched to the new beta, with 750 ICQ contacts, i don't want to lose a single one!

:confused2
Toefur
October 4th, 2001, 11:18
Geeezus... and I thought 20 was too much to handle!!! :D
sp0radic
October 4th, 2001, 17:36
This is the best i've seen so far... except for those crappy ads.

>_<