ICQ, the originator of the chat software, announced its closure on June 26, and has been born for nearly 28 years

Sanyan Technology

2024-05-26 00:18Posted on the official account of Beijing Sanyan Finance

ICQ, the originator of the chat software, announced on its official website that it will be shut down on June 26, and it advises users to use VK Messenger instead.

ICQ is an instant messaging software that was launched on November 16, 1996 by the Israeli company Mirabilis.

In 1996, three Israelis, Wisig, Wadi and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop a software that would allow people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet. THEY NAMED THE SOFTWARE ICQ, WHICH MEANS "I SEEK YOU." ICQ supports chatting, sending messages and files, etc., on the Internet.

Mirabilis was acquired by AOL in June 1998.

On July 8, 2010, AOL announced that 187,500,000,000,000,000,000,Mail.ru 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

After learning the news that ICQ was about to close, netizens commented:

"It's a living fossil, probably the earliest impression of the Internet"

"Full of memories"

"Tears of the Times"...

Have you ever used ICQ?

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