![]() And a relatively open architecture meant it could be cloned and forked. ![]() ![]() At first, contact lists and other info were even kept client-side, making it an early success of peer-to-peer as well as messaging. You could message anyone whose number you had, and you could gather them by fair means or foul, on IRC, BBS or AOL - or at school, of course, the way you’d exchange phone numbers. ICQ was simple and unencrypted, and every user was assigned a number - six digits at first, more later - for ease of operation. The online chat world was a simpler one at the time, at least in terms of the market and technology used. It was pretty barebones in its first form, released by its Israeli student creators in November 1996, but over the next year had versions available for Windows 95, 3.1 (not everyone wanted to upgrade) and Macs (presumably System 7). Uh-oh! It’s 20 years to the day since the introduction of one of the internet’s most well-remembered chat apps: ICQ.
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