ICQ is shutting down this month after 30 years
July 09, 2024 —
Nico Cartron
A short one - if you headed over to ICQ's website last month, you've been greated with this message:
ICQ will stop working from June 26
This is the end of ICQ, after 30 years - ICQ was the first Instant Messaging (IM) solution I used back in the late 90's, and I guess everyone remembers its "Uh Oh!" sound when you received a message.
What I also remember from ICQ was that your user ID was a random number, which made it super hard to remember (back then there was no Password Manager or anything like this!).
As usual, a quick look at ICQ's Wikipedia page gives interesting numbers:
- at its peak (circa 2001), ICQ had more than 100 million accounts registered,
- in 2010, when acquired by Mail.Ru, there were ~42 million daily users,
- and in 2022, there were ~11 million monthly users.
Tags: IT