Uhh, what even is ICQ and what is it for? Some sort of chat app? The website is ...

Diederich · on April 9, 2020

It's one of the earliest fairly widely used instant messaging apps.

jonny_eh · on April 9, 2020

The first popular chat app (that wasn't IRC), in the early 2000s. Was steamrolled by AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger.

Looks like they've resurrected the brand to make a new chat app.

noir_lord · on April 9, 2020

1990's IM - was (or could be) anonymous and it gave you unique number which was your ID.

It was wildly popular at the time alongside Yahoo and AIM (AOL Instant Messenger).

konart · on April 9, 2020

ICQ was the most popular chat client in Israel, Russia, Central Europe etc back during AOL IM and such

pugworthy · on April 9, 2020

You kids get off my lawn!