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ICQ (short for I Seek You) is about creating simple, massively popular ways to communicate online. From the first internet-wide instant messenger launched in 1996, was labeled the worlds fastest growing community.
Today, with over 150 million registered users, ICQ stands for messaging on any platform, incredible global reach, one of the largest and most active global communities, and by far the coolest way to find, meet people & connect.
ICQ Inc., the successor of Mirabilis Ltd. was created when America Online acquired all Mirabilis assets on June 1998. Mirabilis was founded in July 1996 by three young Israeli entrepreneurs, who created and launched ICQ, the worlds first internet-wide instant messenger. After 2 years of amazing growth, ICQ joined the AOL family. Today, ICQ is a business providing its loyal, enthusiastic, and international community with the most comprehensive instant messaging & community products, and continues to grow exponentially with new people registering every second of every day.
Becoming in Half a Year the Worlds Largest Internet On-line Communication Network
Having the First Mover Advantage and being the creator-of-the-category on the Internet, Mirabilis was the only vendor of such a product until the beginning of May 1997. In this crucial half-a-year, it acquired a critical body of 850,000 registrations. Mirabilis continued to keep its dominant position in this newly-created space.
The Worlds First to Achieve 100,000 , 200,000 ,...500,000 Simultaneous On-line Users on the Internet
In June 1997 Mirabilis achieved another record. For the first time on the Internet, 100,000 concurrent subscribers on-line were handled. So far Mirabilis is the only one to achieve this record. With its proprietary robust and sophisticated Internet server-technology, and up scalable architecture, which is the only one of its kind, ICQ is handling currently in peak-times hundreds of thousands of users.
Thousands of Truly Grass-root, Self-Assembled Internet Communities
The ICQ team experiences very rapid growth. It continuously develops additional products and services based on its technology. Those have been introduced, and will continue to be introduced into the marketplace in short intervals. Its successful recently-introduced new services - User-Created Interest Lists, introduced in May 97, and User-Created Public Chat-Rooms, introduced in August 97, were immediately endorsed and implemented by thousands of users. In a very short time thousands of User-Created Chat-Rooms have been opened, some of them having hundreds of participants. At the time of this writing tens of thousands of User-Created Interest Lists, Groups and active chat rooms, reflecting the wide diversity of human interest and creating a popular forum for the expression of the whole spectrum of individual tastes and agenda. Provided with a place for people with similar interest to locate on-line each other, tens of thousands of users already joined those lists.
Many Additional Tools and Products
In August 1997 Mirabilis announced its Intranet Server, an ICQ server for the enterprise. Among the additional products which have recently been released is a new client which introduced once more a host of completely new features and concepts, a Mac version, a Unix version and an advanced search engine. The ICQ team is developing specialized servers, and a variety of other communication products, products for the building of virtual communities, new services, facilities, and enhancements.
Strong and Recognized Brand
In the short period of its existence, ICQ developed a strong and recognized brand name and received numerous awards and recognitions. |
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