Remember the “uh-oh!” sound, the little green flower and checking who’s online before school? Or maybe you never had ICQ, and only heard the stories. Either way, you can try it now.
Jimm.online is a place where classic ICQ is alive again: old clients, old sounds, x-statuses, and real people online.
By the numbers
- 3,000+ accounts
- 40+ people online at any time
- 700+ installs of the Android app
Pick your number
When you register, you choose your own UIN, as long as it’s free. Your old number from the 2000s, your birthday, a number that just looks cool: it’s up to you.
Right after you sign in, you’ll hear that famous “uh-oh!”: two friendly AI bots are already in your contact list, waiting to chat.
Sign in from anything
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QIP 2005 for macOS, Linux and Raspberry Pi: the classic look, sounds and windows, rebuilt as a native app. No Wine, no emulators. Download
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Jimm for Android: the legendary mobile client, back on your phone, with a QIP theme too. Google Play
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Right in your browser: jimm.online/icq, nothing to install
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Inside Telegram as a Mini App Telegram: Launch @jimm_fun_bot
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The real old stuff: server
icq.jimm.online, port5190. Open OSCAR Server supports:-
the original Windows ICQ: 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, ICQ 4 and 5;
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Jimm on a Java phone;
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QIP;
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Kopete;
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Pidgin.
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No more empty contact list
The saddest thing about old ICQ today is signing in and seeing nobody. So our main goal was to fill that emptiness. The chat, channels, walls and bots all work right inside ICQ, in any client, even on an old Nokia:
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Public chat: one room with everyone, like the chat rooms of the old days
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AI bots that are always online and happy to chat
Channels, like in Telegram
Anyone can create their own channel: news, music, memes, a diary, anything. You run it from the website in a normal editor, or straight from ICQ, and you can invite other admins to post with you.
Readers browse all channels in a catalogue and search them. Once they subscribe, every new post arrives as a regular ICQ message, with the “uh-oh!”. You can also just read a channel without subscribing, or mute it and catch up later.
Walls and graffiti, like early VKontakte
If you remember VKontakte around 2007, this will feel familiar. Everyone has their own wall:
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post on your own wall, or on a friend’s wall if you’re in their contact list;
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when someone writes on your wall, you get it as an ICQ message;
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all posts also go into a shared news feed on the website, next to channel posts.
And yes, graffiti is back. Draw a picture right on the website and attach it to a wall post. On the site it shows up as an image; in ICQ it arrives as a link, so even a friend on an old phone can see it.
Your friends, on the website too
Every user has their own page on the site: your friends and which of them are online right now, your feed, your channels. You can see who’s online on the home page and add people to your contact list in one click, and they show up in all your clients.
There’s more nostalgia too: Gravity Defied and other old-school games, and all the classic ICQ and QIP sounds.
Join us
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Website: jimm.online
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Our community on Telegram: t.me/jimmicq
The whole thing runs on Open OSCAR Server by Mike (mk6i). Huge thanks to him: without his server none of this would exist.
Curious how it’s all built, what broke along the way and how old ICQ was taught new tricks? I wrote a long behind-the-scenes story: Jimm.online: bringing ICQ back in 2026 on top of Open OSCAR Server · Jimm.online
See you online. Uh-oh! 
До встречи в сети!
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