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The article doesn't really explain what happened to ICQ. It seems it was replaced by social networks which made building the social graph way simpler (you could
by ymolodtsov 6y ago
The article doesn't really explain what happened to ICQ.
It seems it was replaced by social networks which made building the social graph way simpler (you could find your friends by their names) and had messaging functionality. And once you have more friends there why use anything else?
Then came mobile-native messengers like WhatsApp and Telegram. Of course, ICQ also was native. I was running Jimm on my Nokia 6600. But it wasn't built for mobile as a product, wasn't focused on that.
By the way, has anything seen a good article on the demise of XMPP/Jabber/Gtalk?
- 00deadbeef 6y agoWhat happened to ICQ: it still exists and so does your account.
- ymolodtsov 6y agoThe accounts don't exist, they killed number-based accounts some time ago. You can't log into them.
- cmatthias 6y agoThis isn't true, or at least there's more nuance to it: I just logged in to my number-based account which I must have last used in 2002-ish while playing Ultima Online, as another commenter in this thread mentioned. My account still existed and all of my contacts were still there.
- 00deadbeef 6y agoYes you can. I logged in to my account from 1999.
- Zash 6y agoThe demise of XMPP has been greatly exaggerated. It's still very much alive and kicking.