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I reckon you're right. This was peak Yahoo Instant Messenger time, and it launched in 1998, just before the graph starts moving downwards.
by bencollier49 8y ago
I reckon you're right. This was peak Yahoo Instant Messenger time, and it launched in 1998, just before the graph starts moving downwards.
- cortesoft 8y agoReally? I feel like peak instant messenger time was around 2001 or so... I wonder if it has to do with how old we are?
- gowld 8y agoPeak for you was likely when you were a teen. But overall? In 2001 computers weren't ubiquitous nor portable. Middle-class kids were on IM on their desktops and maybe laptops for max a few hours per day. Now kids have phones for IM all day and night.
- cortesoft 8y agoThe grandparent comment was saying that 2006-2008 was peak instant messenger, and people using messengers on phones were certainly not common during those years.
- tdurden 8y agoIt is a shame YIM is gone now; I lost contact with a lot of people where that was our main form of communication.