The history of ICQ
1996, three Israelis, Weisig, Wadi and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop a software to enable people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet. They named the new software ICQ, which means "I'm looking for you". ICQ supports the functions of chatting, sending messages and transferring files on the Internet. They set up Singular Company to provide instant messaging (IM) services for registered users. The number of ICQ users has increased rapidly (case data TX- 1). Six months later, ICQ was declared as the instant messaging software with the largest number of users in the world at that time. In the seventh month, the official users of ICQ reached 1 10,000. 1998, ICQ was acquired by AOL for $407 million. At this time, its users exceeded100000.
1998, AOL introduced more functional versions such as 99a, 99B and 2000 after purchasing ICQ, but at the same time, it inserted advertisements into ICQ. The built-in search function makes the software bloated, coupled with the unpopular advertising columns and the launch of MSN Messenger, SkyPE and other software, the number of people using ICQ has a downward trend. Later, Singular introduced a simplified version of ICQ lite, which only contained the most basic functions of ICQ.
ICQ 5 was released on February 7, 2005. Soon, ICQ cooperated with PCCW Hong Kong to launch Netvigator ICQ 5, which not only translated part of the interface into Cantonese, but also added a number of new functions that fit the usage habits of Hong Kong netizens.
2010119 ICQ7 released. However, the official version no longer supports traditional Chinese. On the screen, typesetting is more like the design of MSN8, which can communicate with dating sites such as Facebook and import the address book of each mailbox, so it is more customized than the previous version.
April 29th, 2065438+00 According to foreign media reports, AOL and Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies jointly announced on Wednesday that they have reached an agreement, and DST will acquire the ICQ business of AOL for 65.438+87.5 billion US dollars.
2011115 The new version of ICQ is officially released for free on iPhone and Android App. Add usage and functions similar to WhatsApp and MSN, and you can be online for a long time without logging in every time after startup. Usage is similar to SMS or WhatsApp. Because ICQ suddenly released a mobile phone program, it quickly attracted the attention of a large number of users, and many users re-used ICQ.
The above is transferred from Baidu Encyclopedia
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