arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/rip-icq-remembering-a-classic-messaging-app-that-was-way-ahead-of-its-time
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- title: RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time
- link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/rip-icq-remembering-a-classic-messaging-app-that-was-way-ahead-of-its-time/
- when: 2024-05-29T21:33:01+00:00 (2024/05/29)
- topics: ICQ AOL Mail.ru VK 2024/06/26 SaaS shutdown
- summary: «After nearly 28 years in operation, messaging service ICQ will cease operations on June 26, according to its current owners.» ... «ICQ was eventually purchased by AOL, and it lost ground to more heavily financially backed services like AIM and MSN. Then came MySpace, Facebook, social media, iMessage, and so on, leaving no more room for old ICQ. [/] In 2010, ICQ was acquired by a company that was then called Mail.ru, a major Russian Internet applications provider. That company eventually morphed and changed its name to VK, and it has been keeping ICQ on life support as a sort of Russian Skype alternative since then.»
- author: Samuel Axon
- source: Ars Technica