Your ICQ quantity is lastly shuffling off to the nice past. Russian firm VK, which has been the service’s steward since 2010, revealed a message Friday that merely reads, “ICQ will stop working from June 26th,” and implores customers to change to its different chat options.
ICQ was among the many crop of early on the spot messenger providers, like AOL Instantaneous Messenger or MSN Messenger, that allowed for real-time chats. It differed from others by assigning customers a quantity they might use to hook up with each other, versus aliases or e-mail addresses. It additionally had unusual options like SMS messaging and the flexibility to message individuals who had been offline.
And naturally, these of us of a sure age most likely bear in mind the “Uh oh!” alert that will…
