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Yahoo was also like this for a while. Remember Yahoo chat? games? personals?

• silisili 3y ago
  Yahoo had a lot of the same features, but never did it as cleanly as AOL. Perhaps because AOL provided an actual native client whereas I believe Yahoo was always just web based, which marred the experience quite a bit. I guess the ultimate takeaway is that there's not a lot of money to be made if they're all gone now.
  • qw 3y ago
    Yahoo Messenger was available as a Windows program. If they had focused more on chat and video calls, we might be using it now instead of Slack and Teams
    • hulitu 3y ago
      Yahoo Messenger was a very good chat program. Too bad it's gone.
    • icedchai 3y ago
      Same with AOL Instant Messenger. At early startups, we coordinated all our “ops” work in private AOL chat rooms. AOL or Yahoo could’ve built Slack in 1999.
• ohdannyboy 3y ago
  Yahoo pool was awesome. Being paired with a random player... a/s/l?