RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time

ICQ will cease operations June 26. If you know, you know.

I had an account with them, 5542507 but it was registered before they required email addresses and somewhere along the line they broke something on my account and I found I wasn’t able to log in. It wasn’t as terrible as it could have been, because by that time everyone I talked with online had migrated to AIM. I remember the first few weeks of using ICQ and how amazing it was to have a live conversation with someone via text and the best part of it was that if someone was offline you could send them a message and they’d get it when they signed on.

I miss those days that you could sign off of an account easily.


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