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Mirabilis was established in a small apartment in San Jose, California, where Internet access was cheaper. [3] ICQ grew as people encouraged their friends to join so they could communicate with each other. This established a powerful network effect as prospective users strongly preferred the system where their friends were likely to be.
The founding company of ICQ, Mirabilis, was established in June 1996 by five Israeli developers: Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser, Amnon Amir, Arik Vardi, and Arik's father Yossi Vardi. [10] ICQ was one of the first text-based messengers to reach a wide range of users. [11] The technology Mirabilis developed for ICQ was distributed free of charge.
Lecanopteris mirabilis, a species of plant; Partula mirabilis, a species of Polynesian tree snail; Latrodectus mirabilis, a species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. Mirabilis (band), an ethereal/neo-classical band; Mirabilis (company), an internet company, owned by Digital Sky Technologies, that produced ICQ; Mirabilis, a novel by Susann Cokal
Arik Vardi (co-founder of ICQ), Oded, and Dani Joseph "Yossi" Vardi ( Hebrew : יוסי ורדי , born September 2, 1942) is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor, known for his involvement in the early development of Israel 's high-tech sector and the Israeli internet industry.
Mirabilis is an Israeli start-up which pioneered instant messaging (IM) and was bought by America Online. By giving away their ICQ product for free and preventing interoperability between their client software and other products, they were able to temporarily dominate the market for instant messaging. The IM technology has completed the use ...
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ICQ was first released in November 1996. AOL Instant Messenger was released in May 1997. Yahoo! Pager, later renamed Yahoo! Messenger, launched on 9 March 1998. AOL acquired ICQ's parent company Mirabilis on 8 June 1998. MSN Messenger from Microsoft, later renamed Windows Live Messenger, debuted on 22 July 1999.
It was included in a 2002 round-up of ICQ clients in the Russian XAKEP magazine, [11] and in a 2005 round-up review of IRC Clients in Free Software Magazine. [12] The FSM reviewer noted Centericq for its windows-like interface built on top of the usual curses library, which provides much information, but can look cluttered on smaller terminal ...