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  2. Yahoo! Messenger - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M) was an advertisement -supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger was provided free of charge and could be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo ID" which also allowed access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail.

  3. AIM (software) - Wikipedia

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    AIM ( AOL Instant Messenger, sometimes stylized as aim) was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL, which used the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. AIM was popular by the late 1990s, in United States and other countries, and was ...

  4. MSN Messenger - Wikipedia

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    MSN Messenger. MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN [2] [3] ), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft. [4] It connected to the now-discontinued Microsoft Messenger service and, in later versions, was compatible with Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook Messenger.

  5. List of defunct instant messaging platforms - Wikipedia

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    Printable version From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is an alphabetic list of defunct instant messaging platforms , showing the name, when it was discontinued and the type of client.

  6. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Early history (1994–1996) Upon the April 1994 renaming of Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web to Yahoo!, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

  7. Comparison of instant messaging protocols - Wikipedia

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    YMSG ( Yahoo! Messenger ) ^ a b One-to-many / many-to-many communications primarily comprise presence information, publish/subscribe and groupchat distribution. Some technologies have the ability to distribute data by multicast, avoiding bottlenecks on the sending side caused by the number of recipients.

  8. Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) - Wikipedia

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    Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and ...

  9. Timeline of social media - Wikipedia

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    Windows Messenger is released, and is shipped with Windows XP. This is an integrated version of MSN Messenger. [citation needed] 2002 Launch Social networking and gaming site Friendster launches. The service would be popular in Asia and the Pacific Islands. 2003 Launch Business-oriented social networking service LinkedIn launches. 2003 Launch