One of the internet's oldest instant messaging services, ICQ, is closing down. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images One of the oldest, still-running online platforms is finally closing its doors ...

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While you probably haven't thought about it in years, the first mainstream universal messenger app for the Mac and just about every other platform will finally be completely retired in June 2024.

Remember ICQ? If you grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s, you must have heard of ICQ, one of the most popular messaging apps of that time. But like all good things, its time has come. The platform ...

ICQ, short for "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it debuted in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Microsoft's trailblazing Windows 95 was ...

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. The media giant on Wednesday ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. America ...

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 ‘uh ...

COMMENTARY-- In case you haven't heard, there's a new ICQ available. I've already downloaded the new version of this instant-messaging tool and am using it, and I must say I like what I see; the new ...

The ICQ messaging app is shutting down on June 26th, marking the end of a much-beloved communication application. Before there was AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, or Discord (which came much ...