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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.
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.