OICQ is a free chat tool for Chinese people. It is a network paging software based on the Internet. Its full name is Tencent OpenICQ. And the most noteworthy thing is that it is interconnected with the traditional wireless paging network and directly transmits messages to the pager. It is the only real network pager in China. QQ

OICQ was not Tencent’s main product in the early days. In 1997, Ma Huateng came into contact with ICQ and became its user. He found that the English interface and difficulty of using ICQ (I SEEK YOU) hindered the use of Chinese users, so Ma Huateng and Zhang Zhidong spent several months to develop an ICQ (I SEEK YOU) that suits the habits of Chinese users. ICQ similar products. Tencent named the new software OICQ (Open ICQ) and placed the OICQ client on its website for users to download for free.

Because ICQ was developed by three Israelis, Visig, Wadi and Goldfinger. Before OICQ, there were several instant communication software in China: PCICQ of Guangzhou Feihua, Nanjing Polaris Software Company Netsprite and PCICQ from Taiwan Information People. TENCENT's OICQ involves copyright issues. In September 1999 and February 2000, AOL issued two lawyer letters to negotiate with Tencent, believing that OICQ's domain name oicq.com constituted an infringement of the ICQ domain name and misled users into thinking that OICQ The service is ICQ's service. In view of the fact that US law stipulates that if the defendant's name is more than 2/3 similar to the plaintiff's name, it can constitute infringement. In April 2000, oicq.com was renamed tencent.com. So it was changed to QQ.