Willow on Nostr: #ICQ was the first "walled-garden" messenger app that went viral in the mid-90s. Then ...
#ICQ was the first "walled-garden" messenger app that went viral in the mid-90s. Then #AOL bought it and for a few years AIM and ICQ were interoperable. Its competitors were Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk. In retrospect they began the trend of breaking the internet into corporate-owned bubbles. There was IRC and an open standard messenger protocol #XMPP was not adopted by these major players except Google (which later dropped it too)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-junePublished at
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