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by 5e92cb50239222b 748 days ago
> Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

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I remember I paid $600 or so to Mirabilis around 1996 to buy their http server library to save the development time.