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ICQ, a briefly hugely popular messaging app from the ’90s and early 2000s, has just a month left before it joins other old apps and software on the big farm in the sky: the company says it will shut down on June 26th. Websiterecommends users to migrate to VK Messenger for casual chats and VK WorkSpace for professional conversations. ICQ came out at a time when most people were using IRC for chatting. However, IRC was mainly intended for group conversations, whereas ICQ facilitated one-on-one communication.
Users who registered an account were assigned numbers that got longer over time, as they were issued in rotation. The shortest numbers were five digits long, meaning that there was a user who had that number from the beginning. ICQ reached its peak in the early 2000s, when the number of registered accounts reached 100 million. It didn’t take long for AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger to surpass its popularity, but ICQ’s iconic “Whoa!” notification sound is still remembered by many Internet users from that era.
ICQ, derived from the phrase “I seek you,” was developed by Israeli company Mirabilis, which was later acquired by AOL, which in turn was bought by Russian company Mail.Ru Group, now known as VK, which has its own social networking and messaging service.
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