Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and Jabber protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features. Known to work in Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Sun Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X/Darwin Operating Systems. ICQ is the first instant messaging computer program created by start-up Israeli company Mirabilis and first released in November, 1996. ... Yahoo! Inc. ... The AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is an ad-supported instant messaging computer program, published by AOL, which uses the OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol. ... MSN (or Microsoft Network) is an internet service provider and web portal (initially meant to be a parallel net to the Internet) created by Microsoft on August 24, 1995, coinciding with the release of Windows 95. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... Jabber is an open, XML-based protocol for instant messaging and presence. ... ICQ is the first instant messaging computer program created by start-up Israeli company Mirabilis and first released in November, 1996. ... Mirabilis was the name of the Israeli company that produced ICQ (I seek you), which in the 1990s was the most popular form of Instant Messenger. ... This article is about Linux-based operating systems, GNU/Linux, and related topics. ... FreeBSD is a free, open source Unix-like operating system descended from Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through 386BSD and 4. ... NetBSD was the first of the freely redistributable, open source versions of the BSD Unix-like operating systems to produce a formal release, with NetBSD 0. ... OpenBSD Logo with Puffy, the pufferfish. ... The Solaris Operating Environment (OE) (Solaris) is a computer operating system, the proprietary Unix variant developed by Sun Microsystems (Solaris is slated to be released under an OSI certified Open-Source license with the release of Solaris 10 by the fifth week of 2005. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. ... Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer’s name for the operating systems for Macintosh computers. ...

Centericq was written and is being developed continuously by Konstantin Klyagin, an author of many other pieces of free software. The software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This article is about free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

See also

• List of instant messengers
• Comparison of instant messengers

The following is a list of instant messengers. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of instant messengers. ...

External links

• The Official Centericq website (http://thekonst.net/centericq)
• German Centericq fan-club (http://centericq.de)
• The ICQ website (http://www.icq.com)