ĭuring the second week of January 2021, ICQ saw a renewed increase in popularity in Hong Kong, spurred on by the controversy over WhatsApp's privacy policy update. In 2022, ICQ had about 11 million monthly users. The updated messenger was presented to the general public on April 6, 2020. In 2020, the Mail.Ru Group, which owns ICQ, decided to launch new software, "ICQ New", based on its messenger. At the time of the Mail.Ru acquisition in 2010, there were around 42 million daily users. Īt its peak around 2001, ICQ had more than 100 million accounts registered. ICQ became the first widely adopted IM platform. ICQ was among the first stand-alone instant messenger (IM) applications-while real-time chat was not in itself new ( Internet Relay Chat (IRC) being the most common platform at the time), the concept of a fully centralized service with individual user accounts focused on one-on-one conversations set the blueprint for later instant messaging services like AIM, and its influence is seen in modern social media applications. The ICQ client application and service were initially released in November 1996, freely available to download. 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. The name ICQ derives from the English phrase " I Seek You". ICQ New is a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) and VoIP client. Russian, English, Portuguese, Ukrainian, German, Czech, French, Chinese, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese IOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, web application, Linux, (former platforms) Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, Java, Symbian OS, Symbian S60, BlackBerry OS, Bada, Amazon Fire, Palm Pilot, iMode Our message forums, our gallery pages, our helpdesk systems and any other services we offer now or in the future.Ĭommon sense and politeness will carry you in most situations, but you will find our Acceptable Use Policy, channel Bot Policy and some other information here.Ĭonnecting information for IRC Clients: ++ ( Linux/ Windows/ MacOS), Objective-C/ Swift ( iOS), Java/ Kotlin ( Android) When necessary, these rules and restrictions may be updated and enforced across all of the services we offer, including Generally accepted laws and codes of conduct, and for the protection of our services and those who use them. In order to make this possible, we have determined that certain rules and restrictions are necessary to avoid violations of
Our goal is to provide a pleasant atmosphere for people to enjoy socializing in an online chat environment. ICQ-Chat was founded in November 2015 and is a separate IRC Network. When IrCQNet closed in 2015 a small group of folks got together and began to discuss what kind of chat network we would like to chat in, at the end we decided to start a new Network called ICQ-Chat since that name was easy to rememberįor all former IrCQNet chatters.
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