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by semi 759 days ago
>(not sure if it was part of the "chat wars" [1] too).

Kind of in that they were a good enough competitor that AOL bought them and AOL definitely continued to fight.

I don't think they ever publicly integrated them but they did merge the back ends enough that for a while you could just login to AIM with an ICQ UID, and impress all your friends with your cool numeric aim account