Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80.
There was a time when ICQ—that's"I Seek You"—was as ubiquitous as mIRC and a good FTP program. But after nearly three decades of operation , the end has finally come: A message posted on the
It's hard to overstate just how big ICQ was at the turn of the millennium. It was released by Israeli developer Mirabilis in late 1996; I came to it in '97 by way of an in-the-know friend who breathlessly regaled me with tales of this exciting new program that let us talk to online friends anywhere, at any time—no more having to wait for your pals to show up on Undernet! Believe me, this was huge.
At one point ICQ had more than 100 million registered users, but it didn't take long for other companies to get in on the IM action, leading to ICQ's slow decline. AOL, which had acquired Mirabilis in 1998, sold it to Russian company Digital Sky Technologies—despite its decline in the West, ICQ remained popular in Russia—in 2010, at a significant loss.
I haven't used ICQ in many, many years, but even so I retain a soft spot for it. I not only remember my user identification number—1302192—I still have it. Technically, anyway: I remain in the ICQ user database, but the password are long gone.That makes the moment a little sad.
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