You need to be of a certain age to even know what ICQ is – don’t worry, we are too. One of the pioneers of the online messaging space, it went head to head with AIM and Yahoo Messenger (remember those?) many, many years ago, and you may have thought it was long dead. We know we did. But no.
Somehow, ICQ (if you say it out loud, it makes sense – it sounds like “I seek you” which may feel creepy now but wasn’t in 1996 when it was launched) has survived, and still exists. Not for long, though. It will stop working on June 26. RIP.
ICQ was bought by AOL in 1998 and by the Mail.Ru Group…
