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		joshuaissac on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICQ will stop working from June 26 > mostly just Russians wanting to practice their English I guess that explains their recommendation of VK Messenger as a replacement. 360487731

5e92cb50239222b on May 24, 2024 [–]

> Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

FpUser on May 24, 2024 | [–]

I remember I paid $600 or so to Mirabilis around 1996 to buy their http server library to save the development time.

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