It's not. The 5-10 figure is originally from an extremely unscientific study from the 1940s meant to spawn distrust of "German" cockroaches. While it absolutely happens the real numbers are much lower. More frequently they enter the anus.
Most people in my circle moved to AIM with some on MSN and one or two weirdos on Yahoo. The ability to have a fun username maybe contributed. Did ICQ let you set an away status with melodramatic lyrics? I remember that being an important feature in the others.
The HN thread has comments by "founders" admitting it's a transreflective LCD. They claim it's super-duper customized but it's still an LCD.
I also found a a reddit thread where it was being advertized as e-ink and a company rep came in and admitted it as an LCD and that the article came from a friend of an employee, but I'm not finding the thread again now from a quick search.
It's not actually eink (aka electronic paper). It's an LCD screen with a filter to help glare. Clearly deceptive marketing and worse, they have "friends of employees" advertising it as eink.
Carefully timed explosives placed in the middle of the moon causing it to split in half, one half going away from Earth and the other half going right into the Atlantic coast. Problem solved.
How were messages communicated back then? Wonder if the messenger forgot the rest of the message and was like "if... Um... Just if ya, those laconic Laconians you know how they are" and that's what got written down in history
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