Oath Inc today announced that it is shutting down the once popular Yahoo Messenger come July 17th 2018. The service was once a very popular instant messaging apps back in the days, before the coming of WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook, Twitter and many others. The company says while it may be shutting the service down, your Yahoo ID remains intact for other services like Mail and fantasy sports.

Before now, Oath had also shut down AIM’s AOL Instant messenger back in December last year. Although the company gave no reason for the action, but it can be far from the dominance pose by the likes of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other chat service.

The company has been testing its new chat service call Squirrel for months. It is believed that this may be used to replace Yahoo messenger.

Source: http://www.techchairman.com/2018/06/yahoo-messenger-to-be-shut-down-on-july.html

Gosh, it was still operational?

The platform yahoo boiz take learn their 'trade'

Been dead like 3 years ago

Started sex chat here that year

Me: Hello
Recipient: Hi

Me: I'm Ollah2, you?
Recipient: Mary

Me: ASL?
Recipient: 18, F, NY


Yahoo messenger was too ahead of its time. Everything that exist in today's messaging apps existed in yahoo messenger. Chatrooms, voice call, video call, emoticons, file sharing, buzz, et al .


Don't dull, don't sleep.

Yahoo slept and they wept

Nairaland profile still asks you for your YIM. I bet some think Seun missed out letter U. Not knowing it's for Yahoo Instant Messenger.

Technology industry is a dynamic one. Who knows? Google may not be a verb in the next 20 years

That's too bad, but understandable, considering it has pretty much gone into extinction now because no one uses it anymore.

a legemdary messenger

Mustay:
Nairaland profile still asks you for your YIM.

I think seun should consider WhatsApp number instead of YIM

ASL Pls?

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Abdulnur:
Gosh, it was still operational?

It wasn’t working before ooo.

Don’t know where these bloggers are getting their news from

Those days of ASL?

What's your ASL?

Yahoo messenger that made me ditch my GCE lessons back then (had already made my waec though). Always found myself at a cafe chatting.
Result finally came out and I told dad that it was seized. His response was stunning "I had a dream about something like that happening, don't feel bad"

Still keeping in touch with few friends I made back then through yahoo mail though.

Was very good then, however, just like trium & Alcatel, couldn't meet up.

July 17 is my birthday. I'm grateful that Yahoo recognizes my contribution to that platform and decided to honour me by shutting down on my birthday.

So loong...
Nice to have you around

Platform i use learn browsing and how to convince white women

Lol. Yahoo messenger used to be the real deal in those early days of Internet explosion in Nigeria.

Someone will use his last kobo to buy airtime for two hours in a cyber café a bus will take another 45 minutes to drive to.

And what are you looking for? Just to chat with a so-called oyinbo girl in India or Lebanon that you will never get to meet in real life.



Those were the days! The days of A (age) S ( Sex) L (location).

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Yahoo slept while Google went on to become a behemoth.

It's good to give it a befitting and memorial burial ........YM served us well.....sleep well YAHOO MESSENGER !

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Ezyp:

I think seun should consider WhatsApp number instead of YIM

you go put your whatsapp for public forum?