ICQ

ICQ is a system owner of Instant messaging, VoIP and Visioconférence of the company Mirabilis.

Mirabilis was founded in November 1996 by some Israeli students . Name ICQ comes from English “  I Seek You   ” (“  I you cherche  ”, to pronounce as in English “  goes-sic-iou   ”).

The users of ICQ, contrary to the majority of the other instant message services, are identified by numbers, are called Universal internet number (UIN). Those are given by order ascending of inscription and the new users receive today numbers with 9 digits (above 400 million).

History

It is about the precursor of the instant messagings and its appearance constitutes a big step in the interconnection of the users of Internet. The service was indeed a good complement of IRC and is more pleasant to use than the Email for a fast conversation. In addition to the discussion on line, he proposes a service of discussion with several, the transfer of file and the sending of messages off line.

The service is now the property of AOL, which bought Mirabilis in 1998 and became compatible with the customer of AOL AIM.

Since 2005, with the appearance of skype and the improvement of MSN, ICQ seems to have taken retreat. Undoubtedly because ICQ on the one hand had become with the wire of times a machine with gas, and on the other hand, like Kazaa, ICQ rubbed with the economic model of the spywares installed. However, it is always used by million users throughout the world.

Compatible software

The protocol used by ICQ is closed owner and, but several other software that the software official customer make it possible to be connected to network ICQ. Among those, one can count:

It is possible to be connected to network ICQ with a customer Jabber by using a transport (footbridge).

External bonds

  • Official site

  • Of the free specifications of the protocol of ICQ

Zh-yue: ICQ

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