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Yahoo! Messenger dates back to Yahoo! Chat, which was a public chat room service. The actual client, originally called Yahoo! Pager, launched on March 9, 1998 [1] and renamed to Yahoo! Messenger in 1999. The chat room service shut down in 2012.
A classic example of instant messaging on a desktop computer: the left window of this software showing a list of contacts ("buddy list") and the right window an active IM conversation. Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.
A chat log is an archive of transcripts from online chat and instant messaging conversations. Many chat or IM applications allow for the client-side archiving of online chat conversations, while a subset of chat or IM clients (i.e., Google Talk and Yahoo!
Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an internet pioneer. From the trailblazing product that was Instant Messenger, merger with Time Warner and multiple rebrandings, AOL has...
This is an alphabetic list of defunct instant messaging platforms, showing the name, when it was discontinued and the type of client. Yahoo! Messenger, 1998–2018.
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger, sometimes stylized as aim) was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL, which used the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time.
Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger became interoperable on July 12, 2006. For six years, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger users in possession of up-to-date software could communicate across the two networks.
In April 2020, Facebook released a Messenger desktop app for Windows and macOS . Messenger is used to send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio, and files, and also react to other users' messages and interact with bots. The service also supports voice and video calling.
History. Yahoo! Groups was launched in early 2001 as an integration of technology from eGroups.com and community groups from both eGroups.com and Yahoo! Clubs. Yahoo! Clubs was launched in 1998 as an extension of services developed by Yahoo! Message.
Yahoo! discontinues its services for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris clients in early August 2016. It will now only support Yahoo! Messenger on Android , iOS , and web clients.