RIP Yahoo Messenger

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The once popular messaging service-Yahoo Messenger is being put to rest on July 17, 2018. After losing out to new and modern services like, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Facebook Messenger, and failed resurrection attempts the company is logging it off. Users get six months to download their chat history. Here’s a brief history of Messenger’s 20-year-run.
 

The rise and fall of Yahoo Messenger-TOI (1) 
 
The archaic messaging app was launched as Yahoo Pager on March 9, 1998. It was rebranded Yahoo Messenger on June 21, 1999.
Yahoo Messenger: The first real global messaging app
Yahoo Messenger was one of the first messaging applications to make waves in an age of dial-up connections and broadband speeds that just wouldn’t go beyond 1 Mbps. When cyber cafes mushroomed in metros and smaller towns in the early 2000s, youngsters spent hours chatting through the messaging application.
However, the application was quickly forgotten in the smartphone era, with youngsters starting to lean towards apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. And now, with Yahoo Messenger gone, let’s take a look at the top features that made the application so special.
Chat rooms
One of the most entertaining elements of the Yahoo Messenger app was its public chat rooms. You could shuffle between several chat rooms and engage in public conversations. The UI was pretty simple and easy to use, even by modern standards. Small things like ability to change the font size and style made the public chat rooms look pretty entertaining. Yahoo Chat Rooms was killed in 2012, seven years after the software disabled users’ ability to create their own chat rooms.
Video calls
Long before WhatsApp’s video call or FaceTime on iPhone, Yahoo Messenger allowed its users to make video calls. The experience, however, was below par when compared to modern high-res cameras and speedy connections. But even with a low-resolution VGA web camera and minimum broadband speeds, making video calls through the desktop was a lot of fun.
Buzzing
Has somebody been ignoring your message for too long? Just send a Buzz. The entire message box will shake up, and you will have the attention you want. Buzzing was a very interesting feature, even if it was just a fun one. Yahoo Messenger’s Buzzing seemed to have eventually inspired the BlackBerry BBM ping.
Stickers, emojis and more
Long before Facebook Messenger got stickers, Yahoo Messenger had a wide catalogue of custom stickers – including some India-specific ones. Its emojis were also quite popular.
So long, Yahoo Messenger.
 

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