ICQ
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of ICQ
approximate abbreviation of I seek you
Example Sentences
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The company had just been bought by AOL, where he managed to survive continual purges, eventually being put in charge of AIM and ICQ, a pair of popular instant-messaging services.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 26, 2012
“Somehow the word is out that this is where everyone has to be,” said Vardi, co-chairman of the global conference and a founding investor in the former Mirabilis Ltd., which developed the ICQ online-chat system.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 29, 2011
Additionally, the company said that it sold its instant- messaging service ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies Ltd for $187.5 million and that it is pursuing a sale of social networking site Bebo.
From Reuters ● Apr. 28, 2010
The teenage son could be going on the Internet via AOL, wandering cyberspace on a Netscape browser and chatting with pals using AOL's ICQ instant messaging service.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2000
Geeks keep their computers on round-the-clock and often work irregular hours, in part because Web-surfing, software trading, and collecting and ICQ and Hotline messaging are factored in.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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