ICQ chat is an instant messaging computer program. November 1996 saw its first release by the Israeli company, Mirabilis. It is now owned by AOL. ‘ICQ’ stands for ‘I seek you’. It was developed to mediate between people using a non-UNIX operating system for access to the internet. ICQ chat enables the exchange of text-based messages.

ICQ chat also allows multiple users to use the chat system. One can send unlimited numbers of SMSes use a searchable user directory and send greeting cards using ICQ chat. ICQ chat provides chat rooms for like-minded people to converge into one place. There are chat rooms for everyone and for all kinds of people. These chat rooms even bring together people from the same community or country on a common platform.

Use of ICQ

ICQ chat courts similarities to yahoo chat when it comes to chat rooms uniting people with common interests. There are several ICQ chat rooms available for the user. There is even the option of going to desimuslimchat.com, a community for people of Pakistani for exchanging their thoughts. ICQ iPhone could be the best substitute for your desktop. It allows the user to keep in touch with buddies and friends on the ICQ and AIM networks while on the move. Of all the versions of ICQ chat available, ICQ 7 comes with the facility to chat with friends and relatives, share updates and photographs on social networking sites like Facebook, and twitter.

Latest version of ICQ

ICQ7 is the latest version of ICQ chat available. It was released on January 19, 2010. The best thing about it is that it could be used in all languages including English, Hebrew, Russian and Arabic. It requires an active internet connection, and your computer system should support Windows 7 or Windows Vista or Windows XP. Your computer system should support Flash 9, although the recommended is Flash 10.

The processor should be Pentium III 900 MHz if not Pentium IV. There should be 50 MB of disk space on your PC, with 512MB of RAM. It should support Internet Explorer 7 or above, or it should be compatible with Firefox. All this might seem to be a lot, but it is nothing compared to the benefits you get from ICQ chat.