It was earlier last month when Yahoo confirmed it will be shutting down the services for the Yahoo Messenger permanently from July 17, 2018. The messenger made its official debut in 1998 as Yahoo! Pager which was rebranded in the year 1999. The messenger service became quite famous for chat rooms as well as chat abbreviations such as ASL for Age, Sex and Location.

After 20 years of existence, Yahoo has finally put a full stop to its one of the oldest online chat application. Is Yahoo! Messenger Going to Be Shut Down? Online Instant Messaging App to Go Offline From July 17, 2018, Confirms Company.

The Yahoo Messenger was a quite popular online chat application in the 90s, and its discontinuation will make us nostalgic.

Yahoo previously alerted current users that they can download chat history in next six months, prior closure. The chat history will be mailed to the user on the email id. From today onwards, no users will be able to use the chat services from the Messenger. Yahoo Mail Introduces a New App for Android Go Devices.

Another instant chat application - AOL Messenger was also shut down last year on December 15. Similarly, Orkut was also another social media platform that was shut down by Google around four years ago.

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