ICQ, the first universal messenger, is shutting down on June 26, 2024, after a 28-year run. Despite its long history, many users haven't used it in years, reminiscing about their early ICQ numbers and the impact it had on their lives. The news of its closure has evoked mixed emotions among those who remember its heyday in the 90s and early 2000s.
Lets pour one out for ICQ. Spent a significant amount of time on that thing in the late 1990s https://t.co/44B6nQpxck #tellusaboutthewargranddad
Very sad but also very impressive to last 28 years! Who had an ICQ number? I did. https://t.co/wMb2lPMBn8
Uh-OH! Gonna miss you, ICQ, even though I havenβt used you in like 24 years. https://t.co/0Du5Q4Luaf
In news that has shocked everyone, ICQ is still running. https://t.co/MTEDgGVcxm
The first program I used to chat with gaming buddies.. https://t.co/wpmr16jhIR
ICQ was great. Had an early numba https://t.co/VRsx25DKRt
wow, icq is shutting down 6/26. WhatsApp : iMessage :: ICQ : AIM For all the cool int'l folks who didn't use AIM in the 90s/00s, my late-ish-adoptor randomly-assigned ICQ # was 13700237 Which would turn out to be my fave course at Berkeley - Physics 137 (it gets⦠https://t.co/Mje3kt7SFx
I'm feeling a bit of grief this weekend. I had the first website about ICQ and interviewed the founders before anyone else. But haven't used it for years. Doing that got me invites to Davos for years. Why? The guy who funded it (his kids started it) -- Yossi Vardi -- was⦠https://t.co/mIficE9nxo
ICQ 1996-2024: The first universal messenger had a good run, and is leaving us soon https://t.co/IVDIm9Qt0j #Apple