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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by toast0 on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:35PM (#40471098)
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.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by lxgr on Friday May 24, 2024 @09:09PM (#40471884)
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 :)

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by toast0 on Friday May 24, 2024 @09:41PM (#40472023)
I think it did at some point, but I think it was quite a few years after ICQ was purchased before the infrastructure merged.
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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by sumtechguy on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:15AM (#40500443)
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.
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