ICQ is EOL: 28-year-old chat service to shut

[beschizza]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/25/icq-is-eol-28-year-old-chat-service-to-shut.html

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[mclemens]

[smulder]

@beschizza

VK Messenger

[Metostopholes]

Uh-oh!

[RickMycroft]

Anyone can always fire up an IRC server. Or should that be “set it on fire”?

[LurkingGrue]

This Just In: ICQ was still up.

[KathyPartdeux]

It was Noem’d. Taken out back and terminated.

[chenille]

So what happens to all the years worth of sweet, sweet training data, or is part of the problem that they weren’t stealing it?

[sqlrob]

Russian company, so they might not currently be able to sell the data.

Plus it’s just shutting down the servers. That doesn’t necessarily imply anything about the fate of the data.

[spudnyc]

ICQ and CU-SeeMe were so damned awesome back then. Rest in power ICQ.