Back in the days I used ICQ. Everyone had it and you could use many different clienta. I loved Miranda. Also the app could do more than most of the messaging apps/providers today. ICQ and IRC was a combo that satisfied me for the long time. When most of the people moved to Facebook/messager it was a big disappointment because it could... well just send plain text and a few smileys. These days you need like 5 messaging apps to stay connected with everyone.
RE: Too many tabs!!