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Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the subtle-hints dept.

BondGamer writes "Many ICQ users woke up and found their ICQ numbers were no longer working. There is a topic on the ICQ support with more than 1,500 replies. There are pages upon pages of other topics asking what happened. As of yet, there has been no official response from AOL about what has happened."

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  1. Re:Obli... by 75th+Trombone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sigh... back in high school I would've understood every bit of that little expression. Then I pursued a music degree instead of a CS degree. Now I can only dimly see how logarithms even enter into it.

    Sigh.

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  2. Stopgap solutions by Linker3000 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    1) AOL CDs, if angled correctly, can be used to reflect sunlight so as to allow communication via Morse Code over short distances (provided you get sunlight in your basement). Longer transmission paths can be achieved by bouncing the light signal off strategically mounted intermediate CDs.

    2) Banging two AOL CDs together will effect a similar system using sound over shorter distances (eg: 'Mom, is lunch ready yet?')

    3) Laying down a trail of two parallel lines of AOL CDs and linking them together tightly with paperclips so that the metallic reflective surfaces are electrically joined will create a circuit pathway allowing differentially-driven signalling (dig out those RS422 transceivers guys).

    4) Write your message on a spare AOL CD using permanent marker and mail the CD to your recipient (slow, but will improve profitability of your local postal service).

    5) AOL CD = FrisbeeNet?

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