Russian Company Buys ICQ 136
An anonymous reader writes "AOL has sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Russia's largest Internet company, for US$187.5 million. DST's offer was apparently more attractive than those of Russia's ProfMedia and China's Tencent. ICQ, originally released in 1996 and bought by AOL in 1998 for US$407 million, was one of the world's first major instant messaging systems. Although largely forgotten in English-speaking countries, it remains widely popular in Central Europe, Russia, and Israel. Moscow News has additional coverage of the deal."
Not good (Score:0, Funny)
Let me be the first to say (Score:5, Funny)
UhOh!
Re:I still PREFER! ICQ (Score:3, Funny)
ICQ assumes multi-line messages. (No "send-on-enter" crap.)
Most clients allow you to configure Ctrl-Enter as submit shortcut. Then enter does create new lines.
Or if not possible, you can use Ctrl-Enter for multi-line messages, and Enter to submit. But it's hard and annoying.
And obviously, MSN is the exception, as its users would not have the mental capacity to imagine wanting something like that in the first place.
But unfortunately, this does not protect you from the retards ;)))
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preppr spelng.
Luckily, there still is per-user invisibility and ignore lists. :)
Re:Very popular (Score:5, Funny)
double *yawn* I have a negative account number that's also an irrational number. I receive messages from the future.
Re:Well, given the tons spam from that region (Score:5, Funny)
America's culture of freedom and individual responsibility has made it a hotbed of unconventional electronic marketing entrepreneurs.
Godless elsewhereistan's degenerate criminality makes it a hive of spammer scum.
Get the Facts(tm)!
Re:Very popular (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Whatever happened to PAL? (Score:3, Funny)
It got replaced by NTSC.