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ICQ, Internet instant messaging software popular in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ICQ was created in 1996 by Mirabilis, an Israeli software company, which was acquired in 1998 by America Online, Inc. (AOL). Software developers Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser, and Amnon Amir created ICQ so that personal computers (PCs) would, like computers running the UNIX operating system, allow users to instantly communicate with each other. After its launch in November 1996,...

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