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ICQ is shutting down on June 26

ICQ, which was once a highly regarded messaging app for a brief interval within the 90s and the early aughts, solely has a month left earlier than it joins the opposite apps and software program of previous within the nice huge farm within the sky. It’ll cease engaged on June 26, in accordance with it website, which additionally encourages customers to maneuver to VK Messenger for informal chats and to VK WorkSpace for skilled conversations. ICQ got here into the image at a time when most individuals had been utilizing IRC to talk. IRC, nonetheless, was principally meant for group conversations — ICQ made it straightforward to speak one-on-one.

Customers who signed up for an account acquired assigned a quantity that grew longer as time went on, as a result of it was issued sequentially. The shortest numbers had 5 digits, which suggests customers who acquired them had been there on the very starting. ICQ peaked within the early 2000s when it reached 100 million registered accounts. And whereas it did not take a very long time for AIM, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger to eclipse its recognition, ICQ’s iconic “uh-oh!” notification sound stays memorable for lots of web customers throughout that period.

ICQ, derived from the phrase “I search you,” was developed by Israeli firm Mirabilis. It was then bought by AOL after which by the Russian firm Mail.Ru Group that is now generally known as VK, which has its personal social networking and messaging companies.

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