I don't think I bothered to install ICQ past 2002 or 2003. The likely factor was competition, everybody wanting something new, and the ugly bloated client that ICQ released over the years. As the years went on, it seemed like everybody wanted a piece of the action - MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk!, etc, and ICQ seemed to have lost favour. There was also AIM95 that I had to use because of one person I knew who only used AIM. Then in about 1998, I signed up for the latest fad, ICQ, with their trademark 'ut oh'. I believe it came bundled with my ISP, Prodigy, GNN, and CompuServe. I started 'chatting' with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in 1995. What do you all think? Will it come back on its own? Should we start a trend to force it back? the voice saying ' incoming file transfer' or ' incoming chat request'. the ' tok tok tok' when someone on your contact list go online. the cute ' oh-ow' sound in ICQ when we received a new message. Another popular chat programme in the past was mIRC (which I didn't use). Has everyone abandoned ICQ? I think nowadays most people are using Yahoo Messenger (YM), MSN Messenger, Skype or Google Chat. Notice my nice ICQ number? I like the last 3 figures 188. I quickly logged in and checked on my contacts list.īut. Luckily I still remember my ICQ number and password.

4 years back? Out of curiosity, I downloaded the latest version of ICQ (ICQ 5.1) and installed it. If I didn't remember wrongly, the last time I logged in and chatted using ICQ was. ICQ was the first chat programme that I used in the past but being abandoned for the past few years. Few days ago while chatting online, suddenly ICQ strikes my mind.

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