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ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years
The instant messaging service was basically gone already.
Russian company VK, which has been the service’s steward since 2010, published a message Friday that simply reads, “ICQ will stop working from June 26th,” and implores users to switch to its other chat solutions. ICQ grew to 100 million registered users at one point, at least according to a 2001 release from Time Warner, which had bought AOL a year earlier in a famously doomed merger. The modern version of ICQ appeared to have worked and functioned like other messenger apps, such as WhatsApp or Telegram.
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