Yahoo Messenger Is Shutting Down on July 17

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After a 20-year run, Yahoo Messenger is finally shutting down this summer. Yahoo has not given a reason as to why it is ending the application, nor does the company have a replacement product available. This follows the death of AOL’s AIM, which was shut down in October.

Yahoo Messenger first made its debut as Yahoo Pager way back in 1998, at a time when instant messaging was the terrain of PCs, as an alternative to email and SMS on basic mobile devices. It was an early hit and popularized the idea of “over the top” messaging that was not tied to a specific service provider.
 
AIM and messenger were fun at the time but with smart phones to text right from your pocket, who wants to sit at a PC and do it? Sign of the times.
 
Makes sense following suit, AIM was killed last year.
Discord and the like are now king instead.
 
Makes me sad to see instant messaging die on the PC, but really it still has one last holdout - Steam. Lots of people I know still use Steam to instant message friends on the PC, to the extent that in most cases that is the main reason they stopped using AIM, ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, etc.
 
Some words of encouragement from Discord:
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I was on AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN Messenger. Then Trillian came along and made it easy to be logged into all of them in one program.

Then ICQ went byebye, MSN Messenger next, then AIM, now Yahoo.

Skype and Discord are still holding out it seems. I like Discord over Skype.
 
GotNoRice said:
Makes me sad to see instant messaging die on the PC, but really it still has one last holdout - Steam. Lots of people I know still use Steam to instant message friends on the PC, to the extent that in most cases that is the main reason they stopped using AIM, ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, etc.
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I'd like to add Facebook Messenger to the list. The usage that thing has is insane.
 
SamuraiInBlack said:
I was on AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN Messenger. Then Trillian came along and made it easy to be logged into all of them in one program.

Then ICQ went byebye, MSN Messenger next, then AIM, now Yahoo.

Skype and Discord are still holding out it seems. I like Discord over Skype.
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Skype will hold for some time, its the same backend as Microsoft Teams and overall replaced Lync for a business communication solution.
 
Spartacus09 said:
Skype will hold for some time, its the same backend as Microsoft Teams and overall replaced Lync for a business communication solution.
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I thought Skype was turned into a steaming pile of poo once MS got their claws in it?
 
craigdt said:
I thought Skype was turned into a steaming pile of poo once MS got their claws in it?
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Skype was fine for years after MS bought them. But they stopped developing their desktop client and now all that is available is the W10 version which is absolutely terrible. Not even sure how it got this bad. They have had time to fix it and have not done anything to improve it.
 
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