![]() ![]() Although it continues to survive, and perhaps will once again innovate, for now it remains in a state of relative dormancy. Due in part to a fairly large problem with spam, and aggressive marketing campaigns by AIM, Google Talk, and MSN Messenger - all of which are also associated with very popular existing services - ICQ is no longer the dominant messaging client. The client has been kept up to modern messaging standards, and now has features such as smilies, multi-user chats, email support, SMS capability, and file transfers. ICQ still exists, and is still updated regularly. This allowed America Online to have a virtual hegemony over instant messaging until Google Talk and MSN Messenger began grabbing market share. In 1998, only two years after the creation of ICQ, America Online acquired the program from Mirabilis for $407 million, in spite of it having no revenue at all. In 1997, America Online released its graphical instant messenger, AIM. ![]() ICQ was one of the early forms of online communication between friends.
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