Doesn't anyone use ICQ anymore? I signed up for an account sometime in 1997 (or something like that) and we used to chat with each other across the offices of the Law Journal:

"Let's get coffee."

"OK. Gimme five minutes."

Real useful stuff. Even better:

"I need lunch. Wanna go to the Greasy Duck?"

"Yeah, let's grease the duck."

And so on. I dug out my old account info recently and logged back in (using Trillian -- a multi-network IM client that I highly recommend). My account number is 1505588. I'll keep it open for a while, but all the old timers have moved on to Yahoo or AOL IM.

Oh well.