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.

An Internet messaging service that has quietly amassed 28 million members is attempting to fashion itself into a next-generation Web force, competing with heavyweights such as Yahoo!, Excite and Lycos ...

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 ...

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 ...

In many ways, ICQ has always been a bit of a curiosity. It was one of the first major instant messenger clients of the 1990s. It saw broad uptake alongside the likes of AOL Instant Messenger and MSN ...

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 ...

Uh-oh! It’s 20 years to the day since the introduction of one of the internet’s most well-remembered chat apps: ICQ. It was pretty barebones in its first form, released by its Israeli student creators ...

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 ...

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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 ...