ICQ Messaging App to Shut Down in June 2024
TapTechNews May 25th news, the ICQ messaging app officially announced that it will be shut down on June 26, 2024, coming to an end after nearly 28 years of being online.
Before AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger or Discord, the ICQ free messaging app was popular all over the world, and more than 100 million users used it to coordinate plans, chat about life or communicate when playing online games.
ICQ is a contraction of ISeekYou, which can be translated into Chinese as I'm looking for you. QQ was originally called OICQ, which was a imitation of ICQ. The O stands for opening, representing the open ICQ, and later it was renamed QQ in 2000.
In its heyday, there were more than 100 million users on the ICQ platform, which was a remarkable achievement at that time. In 2010, ICQ was acquired by Mail.ru (now VK), and since then, as the usage of the product has declined, ICQ has been owned by the latter.
TapTechNews attached a screenshot of ICQ as follows: The page shows that the service will be closed on June 26, and suggests that users switch to VK Messenger and Workspace. ICQ did not disclose the reason for the closure, and several tech media sent letters and have not received relevant responses so far.
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