What is OICQ?

ICQ: 1996, three Israelis, Wesger, Wadi and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop a software to enable people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet. They named the new software ICQ, which means "I'm looking for you". ICQ supports the functions of chatting, sending messages and transferring files on the Internet. They set up Singular Company to provide instant messaging (IM) services for registered users. The number of ICQ users has increased rapidly (case data TX- 1). Six months later, ICQ was declared as the instant messaging software with the largest number of users in the world at that time. In the seventh month, the official users of ICQ reached 1 10,000. 1998, ICQ was acquired by AOL for $287 million. At this time, its users exceeded100000.

OICQ: 1997, Ma started to contact ICQ and became its user. He found that the English interface and operation difficulty of ICQ hindered the use of users in China, so Ma and Zhang Zhidong spent several months developing similar ICQ products that fit the habits of users in China. Tencent named the new software OICQ(Open ICQ). You can use OICQ to communicate with other OICQ users, with timely and convenient information sending and receiving, comprehensive functions, instant messaging, network paging, chat room, file transfer, SMS service and other functions, providing value-added services for traditional wireless paging and mobile communication.

QQ: 65438+1September 1999 and February 2000, AOL sent two lawyers' letters to negotiate with Tencent, arguing that the domain name oicq.com of OICQ constituted an infringement of ICQ's domain name, misleading users to think that OICQ's service was ICQ's service. In view of the fact that American law stipulates that the defendant's name is more than two-thirds similar to the plaintiff's name, it can constitute infringement. In April 2000, oicq.com was renamed tencent.com. At this time, Tencent's user market has been opened and the market has begun to stabilize and mature. In order to avoid disputes with ICQ, Tencent decided to completely change the name of OICQ and rename it "Tencent QQ".