One thing I miss from ICQ was the ability to have messages stored on the server and delivered next time your friend logged in. None of the popular messaging apps today do that.
I also remember that ICQ made a huge mess of their webpage back in the dawn of the dotcom era.
You mean aside Skype, Facebook messenger, Slack and Whatsapp? And those are just the 4 services I currently (and reluctantly) use. So there's going to be others I've not mentioned.
Skype for business (AKA Lync) absolutely does not store messages, although I've not used the consumer version.
I used it all the time to send messages to my wife when she's not online; knowing she'll pick it up when she's available. In fact we tend to use it like e-mail in that regard.
> Skype for business (AKA Lync) absolutely does not store messages, although I've not used the consumer version.
Well not storing messages is one of the sales points of Skype for Business; if I recall correctly. Or at the very least encryption for confidentiality (which I know doesn't mean messages can't be stored). But in any case, the regular consumer version of Skype does store messages like I'd suggested. And like with FB Messenger, it's a feature of Skype I use frequently.
Eh? Firstly, people are never offline these days. Secondly, Facebook Messenger (and SMS and Email).