The ICQ messaging app is shutting down on June 26th, marking the end of a much-beloved communication application.
  • snownyte@kbin.social
    3·
    4 months ago

    Yahoo! Messenger shut down in 2018
    MSN Messenger discontinued in 2013
    AIM Messenger discontinued in 2017

    ICQ was really the last of them and it’s ending quite an era. This is, officially, the end of the Messengers.

    • Kaldo@kbin.social
      3·
      4 months ago

      Damn, thinking about the msn messenger brings me back to such simpler and happier times

      • Capitao_Duarte@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I can almost breath the same as young me getting home, throwing my bag in my bed and jumping to the family PC in the living room to chat with friends. Man, I never thought I’d miss the 00’s. Why’d I wanna grow up?

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Msn was the best, I’ll never forgive Microsoft for killing it in favour of Skype.

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, etc. It’s hardly the end, the market has just been gobbled up by the big players as usual

      • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        One thing those old ones did was have conversations in their own windows. I much prefer that over having to navigate back and forth in the same damn window to jump between convos.

  • twinnie@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    It’s been part of VKontakte since 2010. Good riddance I guess.

    Loved it back in the day.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    Nooooooo. I can’t remember my ICQ, maybe I still have it somewhere, but this is still sad.

    At least IRC is still going.

    Edit:

    In its heyday, ICQ boasted over 100 million users on its platform, which was a remarkable achievement at the time. In 2010, ICQ was purchased by Mail.ru (now VK), who has since owned the products as it declined in use.

    Today, ICQ announced that they are shutting down on June 26th, recommending that users switch to VK Messenger and Workspace.

    So apparently Russian business killed it.

    • snownyte@kbin.social
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      4 months ago

      Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we’ve got.

      Nobody cares about Skype anymore as much. VK Messenger, which is ICQ’s successor, looks like trash. Telegram used to be very great but did take some morally questionable steps, yet still gives the user an awful lot of power. Zoom is garbage. Microsoft Teams is garbage. Facebook Messenger is garbage.

      So if I had to pick, Discord and Telegram is the best we’ve got now.