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■ Users will be given six months to download their chat history before the plug is pulled on Yahoo Messenger ■ In 2009, Yahoo Messenger had 122 million users It was later rebranded as Yahoo Messenger in 1999 ■ Launched on March 9, 1998, as Yahoo Pager. What’s important is that users will be given six months to download their chat history. Users still sticking to the service will now be redirected to a new service called Squirrel, an instant messaging app, which is seen as a replacement for Messenger. Messenger also introduced people to the world of emojis and stickers. Even though the VGS cameras and tepid Internet speed provided only a blurred image of the person on the other side, the joy of watching the other live brought immense joy. Yahoo Chat Rooms was stopped in 2012.Īnother first-on feature the Messenger allowed its users was to make video calls. The Chat Rooms also gave birth to one of the most popular acronym of that time, ie, ASL (Age, Sex and Location), the decision-maker when it comes to striking a conversation. The Chat Rooms had a unique capability of connecting strangers living miles apart at a time when Internet was connected through dial-up networks (we aren’t talking about speed and how expensive it was). The reason why Yahoo Messenger will hold a unique place among people is because of its Chat Room feature, which literally helped in mushrooming of cyber cafes throughout the country. Yahoo Messenger now joins the rank of other discontinued platforms such as Orkut, MSN Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger.
Yahoo, which was acquired by telecom giant Verizon in 2017, did try to reinvent service multiple times, but couldn’t make an impact. However, by the end of the last decade, brewing competition from new-age players such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram, the oldest player starting losing its appeal among netizens.
YAHOO MESSENGER PLUG IN FREE
Yahoo Instant Messenger with Voice also now allows people to drop short sound effects into their voice conversations, offers users up to one gigabyte for file transfers, and increases the number of friends who can be added to the contact list to 1,000.Įarlier Monday, Microsoft said that on Tuesday it plans to publicly launch Windows Live Messenger, its next-generation instant messaging program that automatically updates contact information and lets people share files by dragging and dropping them onto a contact list.ĪOL recently introduced a free AIM phone service, and Google offers Google Talk.The platform launched on March 9, 1998, as Yahoo Pager and later rebranded as Yahoo Messenger in 1999, witnessed an astonishing growth throughout the 2000s when Internet was reaching to new audience. A Yahoo Event Finder plug-in lets people collaborate on event planning, and a Yahoo 360 plug-in enables users to view friends' blogs, photos and other Yahoo 360 updates through the IM program.Īnother plug-in lets people listen to free music from LaunchCast Radio. The plug-in lets people view "what's hot" and "what's new" and share wish lists.Ī Yahoo Calendar plug-in allows users to simultaneously view each other's calendars, search Yahoo Local and Yahoo Maps for locations to visit, and send appointment invites through the instant messenger application. The eBay plug-in, for instance, lets people monitor eBay listings and bids, keep an eye on their watch list and view successful bids. The American English version alone will feature more than 20 plug-ins, free mini-applications that can be added to the chat program.Ĭreated by both Yahoo and third-party developers, the plug-ins, available because Yahoo has opened up its application programming interfaces, let users do a variety of things from within the instant messenger application. Separate versions of the Yahoo Messenger with Voice beta are being launched for nearly 20 different languages. Yahoo introduced on Monday a beta of its Yahoo Messenger with Voice chat application that includes free plug-ins designed to let people to do things like track eBay auctions, see friends' wish lists on, collaborate real-time on event planning and compare calendars with contacts.
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