Internet Messenger ICQ Officially Shuts Down After 28 Years. According to AFP, the announcement came via a message on ICQ's website on Wednesday, confirming the end of an era for the platform ...

ICQ — styled to sound like “I seek you” — was developed by a group of Israeli programmers in 1996 as a way for users to text chat in real-time, a novelty in the mid-1990s.

SINGAPORE — Many young internet users today may not have heard of ICQ, but back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was just about the biggest online messaging platform around. For a ...

ICQ—styled to sound like "I seek you"—was developed by a group of Israeli programmers in 1996 as a way for users to text chat in real-time, a novelty in the mid-1990s. Early internet giant AOL snapped ...

Multiple independent efforts are underway to save ICQ from extinction… as well as MSN, AIM, Yahoo! and more.. The recent news that ICQ is shutting down seems to have surprised a lot of people who didn ...

ICQ was far from the first instant messaging tool. Initial inklings of modern instant messaging emerged in 1961 with MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS ), which enabled up to 30 users to ...

I think I stuck with ICQ as my go-to chat app for years until I stopped chatting online altogether. If I were growing up now, Discord would no doubt fill the same role that ICQ did—but I'm glad ...

ICQ was launched in November 1996, allowing people to chat online long before the arrival of today’s popular social media platforms. Skip ... allowing people to chat online long before the arrival of ...

ICQ was bought by AOL in 1998 and by the Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010. Since it's still owned by VK, the company suggests you use VK Messenger to chat with friends and VK WorkSpace to talk to ...

Which leaves ICQ users outside Russia without an alternative that shares any of ICQ's lineage, and a thread of internet history at an end – even as countless IM threads are created daily using Google ...

The once-popular instant messaging service announced its shutdown on 24 May via its website, stating that it will cease operations on 26 June. "ICQ will stop working from June 26. You can chat with ...