Once the software was launched, it immediately aroused repercussions around the world and gained a large number of users around the world with unprecedented creativity. Even in Asia, where the Internet was less developed at that time, market users accounted for 70% and 80% in China. But now, according to the survey, ICQ ranks eighth in the ranking of IM software in China.
Tencent QQ was born out of Tencent OICQ, which is one of the earliest instant messaging software in China. The initial design of the software is completely modeled after ICQ, completely copied from the content and form. For the first time in China, it quickly accumulated a lot of popularity, with more and more people, and finally occupied the market.
Nowadays, ICQ is so huge that it is hardly used for so many functions. Many times, these integrated functions seem to be just a hodgepodge, and there is no internal connection. For ordinary users, these large and unreasonable functions are useless except to increase the difficulty of use. Although AOL's AIM and ICQ noticed this after the integration, they made adjustments in the past period of time and made a simplified version of ICQ Lite instead of introducing wanton expansion functions, but it was too late. Although ICQ has occupied a certain share in foreign markets so far, the MSN released by Microsoft has been seamlessly integrated with the operating system since the XP version, and the social atmosphere has gradually tilted towards Microsoft, and history seems to be repeating itself. At present, ICQ domestic users are almost extinct, but there is still a place abroad.
The use of basic functions is similar to QQ and MSN.