Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26
by lxgr on Friday May 24, 2024 @05:06PM
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There was also Meebo, which allowed you to login to all of them via a web interface (which I believe none of the messengers had natively) without installing the respective clients!
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AOL had 'AOL Quick Buddy', a Java applet client and later AIM Express that used Adobe Flash.
I definitely used quick buddy from computers at my junior college (98-2000), but I don't remember using AIM express.
Ah, I never used AIM directly. Maybe that would have worked with ICQ too, though?
In any case, Meebo worked using the (back then) advanced, exciting magic of AJAX :)
I think it did at some point, but I think it was quite a few years after ICQ was purchased before the infrastructure merged.
Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26
by sumtechguy on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:15AM
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I used the icq web interface for a few years. It was 'ok' it was missing a lot of features but worked in a pinch.
Meebo was sick. I remember they never made any money though as an IM webapp, and eventually fully pivoted to some kind of on-page ad toolbar that site owners would add to their sites...for some reason.