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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 6 months ago

Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years

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Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years

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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 6 months ago

ICQ, a once-popular IM, is shutting down on June 26, it says on its website. It once served tens of millions of users daily.

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I guess we are lucky they aren’t selling our old chats.
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  You think they would admit to that publicly?
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    Perhaps. But what value would 20 year old chats really have?

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