ICQ New is a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) and VoIP client. The name ICQ derives from the English phrase "I Seek You". Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010.
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Shawn Knight
November 28, 2019
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#ThrowBackThursday ICQ, short for the phrase I Seek You, laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it arrived in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and those with a reason to have a cell phone actually used it to talk on.
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Yossi VardiWikidata ID
QQ
Telegram (messaging service)
WhatsApp
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VK (social networking)
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proprietary license
First Release
November 15, 1996
Latest Release
September 9, 2021
Latest Version
10.0.45564
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