Users bid farewell to the popular ICQ service forever

Those in charge of the famous ICQ messaging service announced that the service will stop working permanently, as of June 26.

A message on the service's official website said: "The service has ended its work. Continue to communicate with friends through the VK WorkSpace service."

The ICQ service is considered one of the oldest messaging services in the world. It was launched in 1996 and revolutionized the world of instant messaging at that time. At the peak of its popularity in 2005, about 500 million people used it.

In 2010, the Russian company "VK" acquired this service, through which messages can be exchanged and voice and video calls can be made, and the service now works on various types of phones and computers, such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Nokia S40, and Windows devices, despite the decline in the popularity of the service in In recent years, however, VK decided to relaunch it in a new form in 2022, especially after many applications and messaging programs stopped working in Russia.