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Re:ICQ New by graynk on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:31PM (#22825030)
They already tried that with TamTam (https://tamtam.chat/) which is also owned by Mail.ru Group. I don't know anyone who uses it though and ICQ had a huge userbase in early 2000's in Russia, so maybe that's the reason?
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Re:ICQ New by andoriyu on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:07PM (#22826048)
None of us used official client. Only reason it was popular is because protocol was reverse engineered and there were clients for everyone. This is just capitalizing on ICQ name that many of russians feel nostalgic about.

I still remember my 7 digit invisible vanity number.

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Re:ICQ New by int_19h on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:31PM (#22826285)
I think the point is that people still remember the ICQ brand. Whether they did or did not use the actual ICQ client 15 years ago is less important.
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