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3 pages in length. Communicating across town or across the globe has become as instantaneous as a few quick strokes of the keyboard. Even email has taken a second seat behind such instant messaging programs as ICQ - an acronym for "I seek you" - that provide on the spot transmission of text and photos in addition to chatting, playing games with others and actually seeing with whom one is doing all this by virtue of a video phone call. Made by Mirabilis, ICQ is furthering the ongoing pursuit of human and computer interconnection with free software that is both simple in format and extensive in options. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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- an acronym for "I seek you" - that provide on the spot transmission of text and photos in addition to chatting, playing games with others and actually seeing with
whom one is doing all this by virtue of a video phone call. Made by Mirabilis, ICQ - striving to be "an online media company that provides a leading
personal communication tool and a meeting place for everybody, everywhere" (ICQ, 2008) - is furthering the ongoing pursuit of human and computer interconnection with free software that is both simple
in format and extensive in options. As an inadvertent addition, however, is the social impact ICQ has had upon bridging the communication gap throughout the world. Changes in
communication and language have largely captured the human story, giving rise to not only technology and civilization, but also to our enhanced moral capacity and our ability to empathize.
Undoubtedly, it is through communication that we learn to relate and understand one another (Dvorsky, 2004). II. INTERFACE & IMPROVEMENTS ICQs approach
to human-computer interaction is in the form of a menu-driven interface whereby end users have a multitude of choices from which to choose depending upon their immediate interests. Several
commands can be accomplished simultaneously, such as holding an instant message conversation in one window, playing a multi-player game in another and listening to music in yet a third.
The interface diversity of the free ICQ software - which Spanbauer (2002) notes may be too chaotic for some people - gives end users tremendous flexibility with regard to the
way they exchange words, sounds and images with others through the medium of Internet communication. As instrumental as ICQ has been - and continues to be - in the runaway
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