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  2. Yahoo! Messenger - Wikipedia

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    It allowed users to create public chat rooms, send private messages, and use emoticons. In June 2005, with no advance warning, Yahoo disabled users' ability to create their own chat rooms. The move came after KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas , reported that many of the user-created rooms were geared toward pedophilia .

  3. 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.

  4. WebChat Broadcasting System - Wikipedia

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    WebChat Broadcasting System, or WBS for short, is a virtual community created during the 1990s. Supported by online advertising, it was one of few services at the time to offer free integrated community services including chat rooms, message boards, and free personal web pages. Extremely popular during the mid to late 1990s in the era prior to ...

  5. Instant messaging - Wikipedia

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    Instant messaging is a set of communication technologies used for text-based communication between two ( private messaging) or more (chat room) participants over the Internet or other types of networks (see also LAN messenger ). [6] IM chats happen in real-time.

  6. 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.

  7. List of defunct instant messaging platforms - Wikipedia

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  8. Yahoo! Groups - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo! . Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various groups, read subscribed discussions online, view and share photos, files and bookmarks within a group ...

  9. Chat room - Wikipedia

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    The term chat room, or chatroom (and sometimes group chat; abbreviated as GC ), is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology, ranging from real-time online chat and online interaction with strangers (e.g., online forums) to fully immersive ...