(They usually came with lots of ads and other bloat) End of PowerPC support A baffling concept for millions of users that still paid hefty sums for long distance calls to their service providers.Įver since using Skype I had been happy with it, if it weren’t for the Microsoft take-over and the subsequent aggressive advertising that led so many Skype users to block any new updates. Including even video telephony, though the video part was never mandatory. Skype did not only contain most of ICQs features (a manageable contact list, live chat, file transfer, etc.) but also added voice over IP telephony. ICQ’s fame didn’t last forever, and it would eventually be inherited by Skype on my Mac. I still remember the *beep* of my ICQ client when receiving a message all those years after. When I came online through AOL in the mid 1990s there were chat rooms and instant messaging clients. The way we talk on the Internet fundamentally changed over the past 20 years.
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