ICQ is the
communication standard in our office. And despite the fact that ICQ and its servers are owned by
AOL, I continue to use it.
It may seem weird that ICQ is how we communicate in my company, but before you judge, take a look at my reasoning:
- I use LICQ, a lightweight ICQ clone for Linux; all good.
- LICQ 0.85 supports encrypted peer-to-peer messaging
- everyone in the office is given nice Sony headphones when they start; as a result everyone listens to music when they work, making it hard to talk directly
- since talking wastes valuable programming cycles of my brain, ICQ is a God-send; it forces people to choose their words carefully as it takes them much longer to type their message than to speak to me