ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

ICQ will stop working on June 26. It’s encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn’t know anything of it still remained.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    I had no idea ICQ was even still operational. Good on them for making it as long as they did.

    I was never an ICQ user, but it’s always sad seeing such long-standing icons of the internet shut down.

    • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      it’s always sad seeing such long-standing icons of the internet shut down.

      A reminder of how much fun Web 1.0 was, not the walled-gardened, enshittified, corporatized, ad-riddled rage baiter it is now.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I always said way back in the early 2000s that once corporations figured out the internet, it and society in general would be very screwed. Their early attempts at trying to make things go viral and create engagement were laughably bad. Then they hired a bunch of psychologists and sociologists, bought up everything, and the rest is history.