Yak pratsyuvati for ICQ (ICQ) through a mail-agent. What has happened to ICQ and is it now scorching? And who cares about the current version of the “good old ICQ”

Remember those hours, if the main one is practically the only program for splkuvannya in the Internet was "ICQ", won't it be ICQ? At the same time, we should think that it has sunk into oblivion, even if the messenger was replaced by something else, more current programs- VKontakte, Telegram, WatsApp and others. And the axis i ni! Legendary, but all forgotten "ICQ" dosі іsnuіє i available for zavantazhennya. In 2010, the turnover has increased to the promotion of Instant Messaging by Mail.Ru Group and is actively developing. From the beginning of the 2000s, the messenger became a lot of changes - changing the design, and software functions. In addition, ICQ has entered the international arena and wins in the lands of America! But in Russia, less than true fans are rooting for her. Let's marvel at what has become of ICQ at once and now it's now victorious.

What happened to ICQ: power supply and feedback

By spring 2010, ICQ will arrive at the warehouse of Mail.Ru Group. What happened then, navіscho to the people of ICQ, who is scorching at the same time? – Igor Ermakov, on our request, sent a copy of Instant Messaging Mail.Ru Group.

First food, as if asking an unknown person: Is "ICQ" still alive? Chi є this year's tide of the audience, chi ї y continue to fawn over "oldfags"?

The influx, obviously, є, і not only in Russia - the past fate was the boom of ICQ in Brazil. Among the new koristuvachiv are not only young, but the old fans of ICQ, as if they tried to try new version. A lot of people who remember their old accounts. At a time, you can easily go to ICQ for a phone number, and then, for a job, connect the old “shape”, guess the past.

Mail.Ru Group added ICQ in 2010. What was ICQ at that moment? Chi had a chance to radically reshape and adapt?

We got a multi-platform messenger with a clear reference to the working style. And first, what happened to robiti - make ICQ friends with "Agent". Then we began to smoothly merge messengers and transfer them to a single platform. Nezabar at koristuvachіv dvoh dodatkіv z'appeared the ability to freely rewrite one with one, shukati and add friends.

And why does the current version of the "good old ICQ" look like?

Good old ICQ started with a basic exchange of notifications. Today is already a tight, richly functional harvester. We have added all the necessary possibilities for full communication: calls, exchange of any files, video calls, stickers and a lot more. At the same time, we help you to make your mobile client easier and grow so that you don’t save a lot of resources on the outbuildings of various productivity.

If ICQ is the leader among the programs for exchanging notifications, at the last stop, in Russia. Manage the ball at once Viber, WhatsApp, Skype - the list can be continued. What are you doing to get rid of the coristuvachi?

We have set a course for the active development of mobile clients, robimo product, like it is handy, easy, and the smut - brown-haired. We have plans for a lot of updates and new products.

With other messengers, food is more or less understandable. And why is it easy to compete with social media?

Kіlka rokiv that all prophesied the fading of messengers through social networks, the ale was gone. Social services - at the same time, services with similar functionality are being developed. They are used to share photos, to know the content, to show yourself that others marvel, and messengers - for calls, calls. The messenger does not have any third-party content that you can hear if you just need to talk.

After the purchase of ICQ, the audience of that client changed by 10 million, and Mail.ru Agent grew by another 7 million. Where did the millions go?

It's not right to say that "changed by 10 million after the purchase." At that time, ICQ had a downtrend: short-timers left the desktop messenger for mobile and social networks. Mobile versions of "ICQ" strongly stood out from competitors, and "Agent" at that time already had versions for all current platforms. In such a rank, the first thing that needs to be done is to release an update of ICQ for Android and iOS.

And what about the need for two competing products in one company (movie about ICQ and Mail.Ru Agent)? Why not leave it alone?

We have long begun to work "only one" from two products. At the same time, it is necessary to understand that the stinks are small for the audience. After the first few years, we made a merger between the two products, we went further and started to create one platform. This is how "Agent 6.0" and ICQ 8 appeared, which were built on the same base and had the same functionality. At the same time, correspondents of "Agent" and ICQ can both correspond, and call one to one - the interaction of products outside.

None of our priority products is ICQ.

Which platform has the most ICQ subscribers at any one time – desktop or mobile? Possibly, є nezvichaynі moments at rozpodіlі audience?

Invisible roses, perhaps, none. Android is the most popular mobile platform, but the desktop platform is also seriously overpowered. Three national trends: Brazil has moved to another place in the ICQ region.

Before speech, about the phenomenon of Brazil. How do you implement the international support, looking back at those who are not only Russian people who are fighting ICQ?

We have a lot of beta-koristuvachіv all over the world, we constantly practice with them - maybe, our only serious concern. For the localization of clients, we use most popular third-party services, and here we do not care about other mobile retailers.

How many people are working on support and development of ICQ at the same time? Pochatkov's ICQ team was in Israel - are other people already infected? Do they work in Israel and in Russia?

From the end of 2012, all technology was transferred to Russia. At the moment, about 80 companies are engaged in instant messengers: spivrobitniki, which support all major platforms, server retailers and their own VoIP laboratory. In Israel, at the same time, no one works on ICQ.

“For life” we talked, now more “on the right”: ICQ today - is it a pributkovy project? At the end of 2012, the fate of you was pinned to show ads for koristuvachs in Russia and SND. What do you earn?

Monetization for this project is not a priority. Please note that the functionality of the messenger can be cost-free. It is not planned to rotate the advertisement, it is better without it. We “monetize coristuvachiv” on the portal, so the task of the messenger is to eliminate coristuvachiv and turn to the portal.

Did you put things right at the base after buying the messenger? Have you seen "dead" accounts?

We are constantly putting things in order among our public records; Constantly three battle with spammers. By itself, the word “dead county” is even more ambiguous. As I have already said above, at the same time the deacons of the rulers of such oblique records turn and want to renew them.

Have you ever fought against the sellers of public records? It seems that “beautiful” numbers “steal” and sell and dosi.

We greatly appreciate that it is not good for our service and we try to start a new sale of accounts.

What are your plans for the future? Maybe, in the next hour, is the popular messenger going to Mail.ru?

Plani is the best messenger ever. For now, mi bachimo, scho robots are even richer.

History of "ICQ"

Close to 15 years ago, spoofing on the Internet was seriously disturbed by today. We didn’t have the most powerful smartphones and everyday mobile Internet in our hands;

The most popular messenger at that time was ICQ (among the people “ICQ”). Just that nadiyna program. Like Winamp, only the world of messengers.

The share of ICQ is not easy, that fall will get angry. So, in 2005, the number of koristuvachs increased to the mark of 500 million koristuvachiv, but then the situation began to change. The main program became cumbersome and nasty advertising, third-party clients showed up, victorious over the same protocol (Miranda, QIP).

A serious blow to the positions of ICQ was caused by social media, which are actively developing, a lot of coristuvachiv began to speak exclusively there.

As a result, in 2010 the company was bought by the investment fund Digital Sky Technologies, which was the head of the billionaire Alisher Usmanov, and moved up to Mail.ru Group. At this moment, the world of online communication began to flood messengers for smartphones in Whatsapp and Viber. It is rich who, having become forgetful "didusya" of all popular clients of the meeting exchange of messages.

We have tried to find out what ICQ is today and what you can do.

Nova ICQ: details in the first version

Universality, you can splinter

The ICQ client can be customized for any platform. From Android to OS X. Navigate the WEB version, which allows you to use your image record without installing anything. We go to web.icq.com, log in through mobile phone(SMS with the confirmation code will come) and we will happily spit it out directly in the browser.

Like before, skin coristuvachevy hopes UIN(Universal Internet Number). Obviously, you can log in for help, either through email or your mobile number. It's a pity, I didn't recognize the data of my old oblique record from the 2000s, I didn't guess the password, I didn't recognize it on the secret power supply.

I had to register again. Everything is elementary and does not look like Telegram.

So, just like in any modern messenger, right in ICQ you can make a phone call or make a video call. All calls in ICQ are end-to-end encrypted.

Reminder, the sound that has been forgotten for a long time can still be felt

Program to ask for access to address book on the iPhone and let your friends know the old dinosaur chimes in ICQ.

Zvichayno we feel famous sound podomlen (oh-oh-oh!), Vіn works in all versions.

Notifications are easy to set up, you can block an annoying contact for the necessary, moreover, in one click. It’s a good chip, “ICQ” is not dratuvatime (or palitima) with a number of unread reminders. That Telegram itself is not like that, there you can turn on the sound of the message at most.

Primary interface, current and manual

The program simplifies the knowledge of the interface. Ale, we know not for "ICQ", but for any standard modern messenger. Evil menu with all contacts, right-handed main chat with a specific correspondent. Easy logical customization - selected contacts, different backgrounds. Everything is like people have in one word.

Silence is the limit of the logic of the whole menu; Mustache under the hand.

Group chats, get together with the world

You can chat not only tete-a-tete, but with a great company. Adding us to one group and virishuesh delivered food, for example, de conduct a company New river? It's just that it's manual.

There are also public group chats, such an option for public accounts in Viber. You can splkuvatisya, otrimuvat korisnі news, rozsilku new music too. Chati znayomstv more guessing zbіgovisko schoolchildren, tsіkavo, scho stink here roar?

Snapi - take a picture and robi stories

Maybe, the most recent innovation of the modern "ICQ" - that's what they call snapi. Here are some hours of photo publications, the stench showed up here earlier, the Instagram Stories feature is similar below.

ICQ is also propagating a media file from the editorial office for additional neuromeasures. newfangled chip, richly fit. In addition, it is an analogue of MSQRD with its own blackjack and new list of branded masks from bunnies to the terminator.

The most popular pictures are taken to the list of the best snaps on the top side of the program. You can become famous.

The dry surplus has a modern ICQ - stable messenger. Yakby is not very foldable share in 2008-2012 rock, but at the same time in light trends.

It's not surprising that today it's not only the "Moldova" coristuvachi of the Internet, but also young people who are disappointed with the glitches of Skype, exchanges of Telegram and Whatsapp. Rich scho of what is today in ICQ, it is impossible to find more anywhere.

Before the speech, on the 15th leaf fall of 2016, the legendary messenger turned 20 years old. Vin alive, hopefully working, she does not stop developing. Amazing order. A reference to the history of the Internet, if you want to get to it once, you can download the legend absolutely free of charge on the messenger’s official website.

Why doesn't ICQ turn back the popularity?

In the era of the most intense competition between messengers, the very thought about those that if there was only one such program and it dominated the Internet, it can be ridiculous.

Today it has become an absolute norm for mothers on their smartphones overnight WhatsApp, Skype and Viber, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Hangouts. Various people give precedence to various messengers, and in order to improve the communication with the great stake of communication, they have to compete with decalcom services.

If it was enough, there was more than one. ICQ program, "ICQ" is famous, for a long time it was the main source of communication on the Internet, Crimea, obviously traditional electronic mail.

Same with ICQ, there was a development of a direct program for the exchange of notifications. But it turned out so that in the era of the expansion of their programs, as it began from the moment of the expansion of smartphones, ICQ itself already fell into the shadow of competitors. At the same time, a whole generation of koristuvachiv grew up, yakі vzagali did not know what the letters ICQ meant.

Everything started in 1996 in Israel. A group of students-programmers from the company Mirabilis developed a program for exchanging messages. Its key characteristics were non-cash, open code, identification of coristuvachs with a unique individual number (UIN). and a funny name I seek you (I'm kidding you), yak was shorthand written yak ICQ.

Different programs of spllkuvannya in merezhі were founded earlier. In addition, ICQ laid the foundations for daily Internet messaging, propagating the concept of a centralized service, for the help of such a savvy person could contact without intermediary.

As soon as the program started to stir up a noise, and its popularity began to grow like a snow sack.

In 1998, a young service was bought by the American telecom giant AOL for a penny at that time - $ 287 million.

The peak of popularity of ICQ fell on 2001, if over 100 million people were registered in the service.

For each other, ICQ took off the most significant update from the moment it appeared - saving the list of contacts on the server. It allowed to win the same UIN on other computers. Before that, small UIN sprats were used (for a work computer, for a home computer, etc.).

In 2002, AOL took out a patent on the technology behind ICQ. The 1st version of the program, released in 2002, was the rest, there was no advertising. The management of AOL looked at the most popular on the Internet zasіb splkuvannya as a potential duy cow.

I rozrahunok coped. Starting from the ICQ 2003 version, additionally showing ads to the shortlisted people. During the first few years ICQ got one of the most profitable promotions from AOL.

The company was actively increasing its turnover. In 2005, the Xtraz package appeared, adding to the ICQ game. ICQ Lite version has been released for weak computers. So the “skins” appeared, which allowed me to old look programs.

In 2007, the 6th version of ICQ appeared, and along with it, the first global service problems. AOL tried to forcibly transplant coristuvacs earlier versions for a new one. The method of getting answers is simple - one day the old versions were just included in the measure.

It called out the anger of the rich coristuvachiv, the oskilki 6th version, even though there was a small number of advances, for whom the 5th was acquitted. For example, for some reason, they removed the possibility of a one-hour administration of a copy of a file.

Moreover, since 2008, AOL has started a baked fight against third-party addenda, yaki beat the ICQ protocol, for example, Pidgin and QIP. These and other programs, written by third-party companies and enthusiasts, were often reversed official addendum ICQ in terms of functionality, and navit did not show ads. Tobto. AOL was spared some of the booty.

Well, the coming of the fates of history ICQ passed just under the sign of the struggle. Once in a few months, the coristuvachis were lying and found out that Pidgin's loves were not practiced again, so AOL changed the protocol. It took a good hour, so that the retailers of alternative clients released version updates, yakі anew masqueraded in the distance under the official version

Another iconic ICQ rice of the 2000s became parts of the problem from the sound. There were fluctuations, if the servers "lay" for a couple of years a day, flooding with millions of coristuvachs without a sound.

On this aphid ICQ began to gain popularity. The history of the development of Internet messengers could take up more than one volume, with more than a few paragraphs.

In the other half of the 2000s, Skype and Google Talk.

Skype, back to back, calling the revolution, splintering the shards may be without cost video calls at any point on the planet. The chat function was different for Skype, but in all honesty it could duplicate the main function of ICQ.

The advantage of Google Talk was the integration into postal service Gmail, which at that time became one of the most popular on the Internet.

Other competing services, such as Yahoo Messenger, although they did not propagate the same revolutionary decisions, they were vigilantly challenged by the stability of ICQ's work.

ICQ has lost its popularity in some lands of Northern Europe and on the territory of the Soviet Socialist Republic, de "ICQ" has become an invisible part of the Internet culture.

In 2010 AOL sold ICQ Russian company Digital Sky Technologies, which belonged to billionaire Alisher Usmanov, for $187 million (the company was renamed Mail.Ru Group inadvertently).

Hіd bv logical and fully true. You can get out of the legendary messenger even more in that market, de vin is still popular.

Remaining stuck ICQ on the back of the Internet messengers of a new zrazka, created for mobile applications. In the era of the total expansion of smartphones, that mobile internet, service, redeeming winches on desktops, becoming just a brontosaurus.

The first among the messengers of the new WhatsApp sign. Yogo vіdmіnnoy rice has become the choice of phone number as an identifier. For the success of victoriousness and the speed of the WhatsApp robots, having surpassed the competitors and quickly becoming the de facto new standard in communications.

The "race to liberate" the market of messengers has been hit with a new force. Skype (at that time already leaning on Microsoft) acquired mobile version. The powerful messenger has appeared at the largest social network Facebook. In Russia, there is a broken analogue of WhatsApp under the name Telegram.

It is impossible to say that Mail.Ru was sitting idle.

Good old "ICQ" got mobile client. In 2014, the roci in the new added the function of video calls, as UIN it became possible to vikorate the phone number.

In the midst of the turbulence of privacy, ICQ behind other messengers took away the encryption of data. Moreover, the company said that their protocol is encrypted not only by the listing, but also by the video call.

In 2016, a new editor appeared in ICQ, which is similar to the popular Prism service, hacking neural networks, to analyze images and set up a new best filter. Moreover, the filters can be stuck and before the image in the video calls.

Prote, tse already has no principled meaning. If the legendary service can drink maiy on the edge. According to different estimates, the number of ICQ correspondents does not exceed 7-10 million today.

Today, ICQ is an incorruptible product, but it still doesn’t have a meaning, the shards of the wines are back on the market for a few years. IT-industry, apparently, does not forgive calls.

ICQ's contact-arkush is the list of people with whom the programs most often communicate. Before that, you can add friends, relatives, colleagues, and just know them, so that you don’t waste your time contacting them without problems. Aje ICQ - tse no-cost service for exchange mittevim reminders, as well as for the creation of voice and video calls. For the purpose of handy dissemination of information, the list displays not only ICQ, but also nicknames. You can also enter your name to the contact yourself. Ale trapleyaetsya, scho, zayshovshi in the program, you do not show a list of your subscribers there. Let's figure out why this is so and how to get out of the situation.

Why contacts can be called in ICQ

If you have entered your profile, but the list of contacts is empty, the reasons may be as follows:

• retailers carry out repair robots and the server is upgraded;
• site glitch;
• victorious old version supplements;
• the subscribers themselves have seen it from your list (but it’s possible, it’s possible, it’s not enough, it’s rich - it’s unlikely that they all blew it).

If there were no reason for the occurrence, you still want to renew the data you have spent.

How to make new contacts

You can turn contacts to ICQ using the following methods:

1. Reinstall the attachment on which the program was installed.
2. Reinstall the program to delete it and start again. Next, enter the messenger with your login and password, as you did during registration. program in automatic mode all your special information will be read.
3. Although the first and other methods did not give a positive result, try to go to the official site icq.com, entering your data. Here you will see your contacts. Yakshcho є need, you can save їх at sight text document then add it to the contact list Asky manually.
4. Go to the folder with the program and find the folder with your contacts there, you will find it behind the address: C: Program Files QIP Users Your number. Remove files with extensions .cl, .clg, .cli, .clv, .lcl, .nil and ini. When you do this, as you win non-standard settings, you will need to specify them, as well as type a password. After such kind of contacts may be reborn.
5. Open the .cl files for help notepad or go to the address: C:\Program Files\QIP\Users\Your UIN\Backup cl\Your UIN with the required date.cl, copy all the information here, then open C:\Program Files\ QIP \Users\Your UIN\Your UIN.cl delete everything in there and paste the copied data from the backup.
6. You can import contacts list using the additional program "QIP Contact Manager", as you can import the list of contact list contacts in ways. Information is taken from a file with extensions .cl, .clb or .cmb.

For the future, to get away, spend money, to fight them backup copy and keep the information on your good nose.

For communication on the Internet, there are a lot of different programs, for example, such as ICQ, Skype and mail-agent (mail agent, mail agent). When you need to protect yourself, what is the skin of these programs to “hang” from operational memory, which is not best indicated on the computer's code. Z tsієї cause є sensa komzhiti kіlkіst vykoristovuvanih programs. Same, we have the ability to speed up ICQ directly from the mail agent.

Vikonaemo nebhіdnі for tsoy kroki:

Krok 1. We launch a mail agent and click on the message "Connect ICQ, Odnoklassniki and other social networks."

Krok 2 At the window, click on the ICQ button.

Select service for connection

Krok 3 We introduce our ICQ number(or e-mail) that ICQ password. How do you want it to be automatic connection to the ICQ merezhі after the mail-agent is started, uncheck the "Automatically connect to the ICQ merezhі" checkbox.

Login and password confirmation ICQ

If everything is set up correctly, after pressing the OK button, an ICQ may appear in the list of connected public records.

ICQ appeared at the list of connected cloud records

To add a new ICQ contact, go to the menu and select the "Add contact" command. At the end, go to the ICQ tab and enter the number of the ICQ of the correspondent you want to add and press the "Search" button.

Adding an ICQ contact

If the search was successful, you can add the correspondent to your ICQ contact list.

Nadali, you can work with ICQ scammers the same way as with mail agent scammers.

Evgen Mukhutdinov

31.03.2013. 22:18

I bought an ICQ ICQ from the store for an ultrabook with Windows 8, after which I have been rebuying for 8 days already. It didn’t help to bring up the vision of ICQ. It used to be like this on android, but after 2 days online, I went out of the border. What work?

Olga 22.03.2013. 16:49

Hello, I can't ignore writing

Vibachte, the list of ignored people has reached the limit!

Arena 04.03.2013. 11:12

Tell me, is it a spivrozmovnik on the list of the blind, you definitely can’t recognize it? Chi all the same є ways to yakіs?

Anastasia 13.02.2013. 11:38

I have ICQ Mobile v2.0, I clicked on the “see myself” function from my other phone on my phone, as a result, I lost my wine in the contact arc, and now I’m offline, now I’m on the red badge. How yogo turn back? Would you like to win me online? Vin already tried to see me and add again, and I confirmed the authorization.

Sashko 29.12.2012. 21:13

I live! Inadvertently throwing a spy on the "List of Ignored" and ignoring Arkush's contact ... how can I correct it?

Visibility of the svіvrozmovnik from the list of іgnorovannyh.

zeta 24.12.2012. 23:22

My friend said that if you enter at your ICQ, then a sheet hangs in ICQ ... you know, you ... a new one has all my other people's contacts! I don't know if my contacts are good enough... How do you protect privacy?

Olga 07.12.2012. 21:25

Good day! How to turn a contact from the ignore list in an agent on an iPhone?

Although in Mail.ru Agent there is no possibility, for this phone please send the version for PC. And already without interruption on the computer, edit the list of quiet ones that are ignored for their own needs.

Olena 12.10.2012. 17:48

I didn’t swear by ICQ for a month, I immediately went into it again on a new computer, but I don’t care about everyone who is in my contact. Why and how to please complete list contacts.

Anya 02.10.2012. 01:25

A month ago, I added one contact to the list of the blind, so it was necessary, at the same time, I try to enter this contact from the list, but I’ll spend it again for an hour of switching-on ICQ. What is the problem?
Behind the hell.

Marina 17.09.2012. 06:52

It was necessary to inform me of a well-known person, awake, not reading, made contact with ignorance. Potim changed her mind, transferred the contact from the ignore list to the contact list. Ale, with whom contact, vibuvshi z ignorlista, just a sign. Lyudina zv'yazok not go out, but I did not forget the number of the contact. ICQ version 7.7. Can you make a contact, know about new information? I'm afraid that what I know wrong has changed my mind and is now spent forever.

Sergiy 28.08.2012. 07:05

As a person, I add it to the list of the blind, otherwise I try, and then, when I turn it off and re-include ICQ, I will be added to the list of the blind.

scroll 26.08.2012. 23:49

If people zanіs me to ignore, then I can bachiti if the wines are at the edge, and if not?

Ludmila 13.08.2012. 21:51

1. How can I see contacts on the phone with ICQ on the laptop?
2. I am constantly in the fence, if I am strong, how can I fix it? password change did not help
3. Not all reminders should come to me, but come late, why is there a problem?
thank you

Try changing your password.

Oleksiy 03.07.2012. 00:53

How true is your ICQ account
http://validate.icq.com/icq/validate.html?uid=646518636&sid=406528428&lang=en

Ghadir 28.06.2012. 16:20

Katerina 31.05.2012. 17:19

Zavantagela on Nokia 5800 ICQ for Symbian Touch? All pratsyuє all harazd. I just don't know how to see contacts from my ICQ. Please be kind (Thank you).

Evgenia 05.05.2012. 20:38

Good evening. Let me tell you, I saw the list of contacts in my browser, and also added it to the list of ignored ones (at the moment you can see only a few wines, so press the button (on the top console) - private lists, and there already select three vicons - the list of ignored Chis it is possible to restore this contact back, without activating it again, and you can read all the notifications here, even after adding to ignore.

Way, yak add koristuvach to ICQ, rejoice in its simplicity Ale oskilki this messenger is becoming popular again, among rich koristuvachivs blaming swindle from these tasks. For this we prepared a concise instruction on the topic and it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with it. The material is relevant both for mobile devices and for a stationary client.

Poshuk

Shukat people at the service earlier you could use UIN number or email. Immediately the situation changed in short bik and add friends via phone. Let's take a look at the offending options for a joke.

Option 1: Telephone number

Instructions for computers and laptops:

And on mobile outbuildings everything is much simpler. Right in that phone book phone is synchronized with the list of friends in the messenger. It is also enough to write down a person in it. In some cases, it is necessary to re-advantage, so that the data has been updated.

Option 2: UIN

Previously, people in ICQ were joking by themselves through the UIN - a unique identifier that consists of only digits. І dosі tsey sposіb is out of date. Let's figure out how to speed it up on a PC and mobile attachments. Instructions for zastosovna and for a search through an e-mail address.

To know a person on a computer in ICQ in such a way, it is enough to enter її UIN in a special form. And then we will open a dialogue from a person and start talking to her. On smartphones and tablets, everything is fine: