Does anyone remember ICQ? I changed my LOGO at the age of 22!

Or the flowers below?

On April 9, 2020, ICQ made a comeback with a new name "ICQ New".

Eight petals that have been used for 22 years, the red petals at the lower left are stripped, and the green petals are reduced to five.

The spacing, outline and shape of petals are the same, but the size ratio of each petal is different.

Besides, green is brighter than before, especially on a black background.

Generally speaking, the new logo looks more modern and fashionable, but for the new flower, it is more like a five-leaf clover.

1998, ICQ is also the fastest growing time two years after its establishment.

ICQ adopted eight petals as its iconic visual symbol for the first time.

Among them, red petals represent offline state and green petals represent online state.

For more than twenty years, although the petals in the picture have been optimized several times.

For example, remove the black strokes around the petals and increase the shadow gradient effect of the petals.

However, the version of 1998 is still in use today.

ICQ is more concise than QQ in interface design and function.

Of course, ICQ is also equipped with functions such as voice intercom, voice-to-text conversion, intelligent reply (related expression animation will appear in the input text, which can quickly enter the dialog box), cross-platform synchronous history, voice or video call, group chat and so on.

For the first time, the design of the interface added a dark theme.

As the founder of instant messaging, ICQ has a very, very glorious history.

From 65438 to 0996, several young people in Israel developed this software together.

It's called ICQ(Iseek).

ICQ soon swept the world after its launch.

By 1998, this software has monopolized the instant messaging market in China.

In May of 2000 1 year, ICQ had more than 1 100 million users, and more than110,000 users were added every day.

It was the largest instant messaging software in the world at that time.

In the same year, ICQ married into a giant and became the product of AOL, the largest Internet group in the United States.

The rich and popular ICQ is unshakable.

QQ was born in 1999, but at that time its name was "OICQ".

Yes, it was originally developed by imitating ICQ. The name OICQ means "drive me to find you".

Because of this, I also received a complaint from AOL.

It is alleged that OICQ's name and domain name of the same name contain the word "ICQ", which is suspected of infringing intellectual property rights.

Ask Tencent to transfer the domain name to them for free.

In March 2000, the American Arbitration Forum accepted the dispute over these two domain names and sent a letter to inform Tencent to submit a domain name dispute defense to the Arbitration Forum.

Tencent made many representations, but finally the arbitration forum decided to transfer the domain names "oicq.com" and "oicq.net" to AOL on March 2 1.

In April of the same year, Tencent launched a new domain name "tencent.com" and renamed "OICQ" as "Tencent QQ".

Since then, Tencent QQ has developed rapidly and become the king in the field of instant messaging.

Later, ICQ was devastated. .

On 20 10, AOL was sold to Russian internet group Mail. Ru is $65438+87 million.

After ICQ "immigrated" to Russia, the number of users dropped from 4.2 million in 20 10 to10 million in 20 13 years.

2065438+In March 2006, ICQ published the original code of the software on github and turned it into open source software.

Today, this software is still tenaciously alive.