Yahoo! Messenger

E340918

Yahoo! Messenger was a popular instant messaging client and service from Yahoo that enabled real-time text, voice, and video communication, widely used in the late 1990s and 2000s.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Yahoo! Messenger canonical 2
Yahoo Messenger 1
Yahoo Messenger protocol 1

Statements (62)

Predicate Object
instanceOf instant messaging client
instant messaging service
availableLanguage Arabic
Chinese
English
French
German
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Spanish
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese
businessModel ad-supported
freemium
competitor AOL Instant Messenger
Google Talk
ICQ
MSN Messenger
developer Yahoo
surface form: Yahoo!
discontinued true
formerName Yahoo! Pager
genre VoIP client
instant messaging
video chat software
license proprietary software
notableFor early adoption of voice and video chat in consumer IM clients
popularity in late 1990s and 2000s
operatedBy Yahoo
surface form: Yahoo!
owner Yahoo
surface form: Yahoo!
platform Android
Linux
Windows
surface form: Microsoft Windows

iOS
macOS
web
replacedBy Yahoo Together
other Yahoo communication products
supportsFeature PC-to-phone calls
SMS messaging integration
chat rooms
emoticons
file sharing
file transfer
group chat
integration with Yahoo! Address Book
integration with Yahoo! Mail
offline messages
phone-to-PC calls
photo sharing
status messages
text messaging
video chat
voice chat
webcam broadcasting
supportsProtocol Yahoo! proprietary protocol
targetUserGroup general internet users
home users
small businesses

Referenced by (4)

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AIM competitor Yahoo! Messenger
Mirabilis influenced Yahoo! Messenger
Open System for Communication in Realtime competesWith Yahoo! Messenger
this entity surface form: Yahoo Messenger protocol
Yahoo product Yahoo! Messenger
this entity surface form: Yahoo Messenger