America Online on Thursday launched ICQ Universe, a new Friendster-style service built on its ICQ instant messaging product, which promises to connect friends and show relationships between people ...

I had just turned sixteen when instant messaging client ICQ was first released in November 1996. I started using the program a couple of months later, and will never be able to erase that annoying ...

ICQ came into the picture at a time when most people were using IRC to chat. IRC, however, was mostly meant for group conversations — ICQ made it easy to communicate one-on-one.

ICQ 1998: The contact list on the left, next to it the usual submenus stacked on top of each other. Here they are used for the settings for each contact. (Image: c't) May 25, 2024 at 3:45 pm CEST ...

ICQ, a social media pioneer, is saying goodbye on June 26th ICQ was one of the first instant messaging apps that we ever used. I Seek You, aka ICQ, was developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis ...

The end for ICQ came not with a bang, but a whimper: A simple, two-line message at icq.com states, "ICQ will stop working from June 26. You can chat with friends in VK Messenger, and colleagues in ...

DST purchased ICQ for $187.5 million, a bit lower than AOL's $200 to $250 million asking price, and was among several potential buyers early on.

It took AOL Time Warner's ICQ instant messenger service just four years to hit 100 million users, but AOL's dream of turning ICQ into a business has yet to materialize.