To help you get the most of your online interactions, we’ve prepared some handy ideas and practices below. ICQ was the first and the most popular messenger program in the 1990s and the early 2000s, before its decay in 2010s. What's happened to ICQ, and why is it gaining popularity again right now? And what's more important, is ICQ safe, especially its newest versions? Let's figure it out together. Here's the ICQ Crash Course: in 1996, an Israeli company Mirabilis developed a computer program, ICQ ("I seek you.") It was one of the first messengers that worked over the Internet, and eventually, and before ICQ, people communicated mostly via emails.
When the convenient chats of ICQ arrived, they proved to be an instant success. Of course, the program's popularity meant other IT companies would try to create their messenger apps. Microsoft followed with its AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! did with the Yahoo! Messenger, but surprisingly, ICQ outlasted all its competitors and reached 100 million registered users by the spring of 2001.
The times went by, and internet technologies and trends developed fast. In the late 2000s, social networks, mostly Facebook, boomed. They had a friendlier user interface and provided a better experience.
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