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		vaylian on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICQ will stop working from June 26 It is only a chat platform and it predates the first social networks (which were explicitly called "social networks" back then). This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but I think people use the term "social network" way to much so that it doesn't even mean anything any more.

mattl on May 24, 2024 [–]

I don't know what the official ICQ client does today but back in the day it had more than just chats between people. It had file sharing, etc.

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