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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. 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.

  4. History of Yahoo - Wikipedia

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    The yahoo.com domain was created in January 1995, [6] although by the end of 1994 Yahoo! had already received one million hits. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on March 2, 1995, Yahoo! was incorporated. [1] Yang and Filo sought the advice of entrepreneur Randy Adams for a recommendation of a venture ...

  5. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    In honor of AOL's 35th birthday on May 24, we're taking a look back at some of the company's definitive moments, like history-breaking mergers and record-breaking numbers, and how it shaped the ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. AIM (software) - Wikipedia

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    AIM (software) 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 ...

  9. Yahoo - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo (/ ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4][5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications. It provides a web portal, search engine ...