Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years

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PARIS, June 27 — A pioneering internet messaging service that once boasted 100 million accounts has shut down, a message on the Russian-owned ICQ website said Wednesday. ICQ —...

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All you need to know about: Selangor FC’s fine, why the Sultan is angry and which Aduns back the club ICQ was developed by a group of Israeli programmers in 1996 as a way for users to text chat in real-time, a novelty in the mid-1990s. — AFP picPARIS, June 27 — A pioneering internet messaging service that once boasted 100 million accounts has shut down, a message on the Russian-owned ICQ website said Wednesday.

Early internet giant AOL snapped it up in 1998 and it grew into a major going concern, with the US firm claiming more than 100 million accounts in the early 2000s.

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