Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years
Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years
ICQ, a once-popular IM, is shutting down on June 26, it says on its website. It once served tens of millions of users daily.
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Serious question: did anyone here actually know it was still around? I'm one of the more tech-savvy people I know and haven't touched ICQ in well over a decade at this point
I didn't realize it could shutdown. Thought it was more like irc.
Nope, it was much closer to AIM than IRC.
Also, IRC also depends on servers and, well, many of them have shut down 😔
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Not at all.
It's been well over 20 years since I've heard anyone talk about it, and its probably been 25 since I used it myself.
I was working in Russian IT sector at the time when the government tried to block Telegram. For a few days we had some communication problems because we ised TG for all project chats and communication with most customers. We worked as contractors making an app with/for Mail Ru Group (now the whole company is rebranded as VK, but it's actually a lot of different businesses). This is when I got to know that product manager I was working with was also the product manager for ICQ. And that we had to switch to fucking ICQ for daily conversations because that was their default backup method. Crazy!
I found out that it was facelifted up to the point where you couldn't see the difference between it, TG or WhatsApp.
After about a week, TG was updated and it had a dynamic server connection (not a hardcoded one), so IP blocks stopped working and we returned to tg.
I still remember my number from the 2000s: 173114498. Though I lost access to that account a long time ago