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From the WebNovember 16, 2016, 9:22 am
Happy 20th birthday, ICQ!
TechCrunch: It’s 20 years since the introduction of one of the Internet’s most well known chat apps: ICQ; released by Israeli students in Nov. 1996, it was pretty basic in its first form but over the next year had versions for both Windows and Macs
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