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Uhh, what even is ICQ and what is it for? Some sort of chat app? The website is super fancy but fails to answer this simple question.
by tryptophan 7y ago
Uhh, what even is ICQ and what is it for? Some sort of chat app? The website is super fancy but fails to answer this simple question.
- jonny_eh 7y agoThe first popular chat app (that wasn't IRC), in the early 2000s. Was steamrolled by AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger. Looks like they've resurrected the brand to make a new chat app.
- noir_lord 7y ago1990's IM - was (or could be) anonymous and it gave you unique number which was your ID. It was wildly popular at the time alongside Yahoo and AIM (AOL Instant Messenger).
- konart 7y agoICQ was the most popular chat client in Israel, Russia, Central Europe etc back during AOL IM and such
- Diederich 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ It's one of the earliest fairly widely used instant messaging apps.
- pugworthy 7y agoYou kids get off my lawn!
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