RIP Yahoo Messenger (1998-2018)

Farhan Abro July 17, 2018

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Yahoo- The once popular messaging service Yahoo Messenger is being put to rest on July 17, 2018. After losing out to new and modern services like, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Facebook Messenger, and failed resurrection attempts the company is logging it off. Users get six months to download their chat history.

Here’s a brief history of Yahoo Messenger’s 20-year-run.

Although it won’t be wrong to say, There’s no alternate messenger app competes with Yahoo Messenger due to it’s unique chat rooms, Audio and Video chat options and popularity which Yahoo Messenger gained over the years when facebook did not even existed.

Farhan Abro

Hello! My name is Farhan Abro, and I'm based here in Islamabad. My journey in Pakistan's digital media really kicked off when I founded INCPak back in 2012. We built it from the ground up, driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, to be a trusted voice for independent journalism. But while media is a big part of who I am, I'm also shaped by a fascinating mix of other passions. I'm deeply into automotive, which gives me a technical edge, but I also find my artistic expression through landscape photography and music. And I'm always diving into the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence. Bringing all these different worlds together the technical, the creative, the journalistic, and the entrepreneurial—it really colors how I see things and approach every project. It gives me a distinct perspective that I try to bring to everything I share