Mac: 3.0.1 Beta build 35554 / July 20, 2011; 6 years ago ( 2011-07-20),.,,,,, and Website Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M) was an -supported and provided. 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, where users could be automatically notified when they received new email. Also offered PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.
The all-new Yahoo Messenger is the fastest, easiest way to chat and share lots of photos and animated GIFs instantly. Plus, now you can unsend messages—yep, you can take it all back!More than just a messenger:• Chat one-on-one or in groups• Yes, take backs!
Messenger was originally launched under the name Yahoo! Pager on March 9, 1998. In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by, it also offered (on ) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of various cartoons such as or ), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages. It was also the first major IM client to feature BUZZing and music-status. Another recently added feature is customized. Yahoo Messenger also allows users to access Yahoo Chat Rooms. As of December 14, 2012, all public chat rooms on Yahoo Messenger have been shut down as part of a series of features being changed/added/deleted.
As of March 27, 2016, the only supported clients are the Android, iOS and web browser clients. The original Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris clients are not supported anymore, and their servers began shutting down on August 5, 2016, with the clients no longer working by August 31, 2016.
It turned out that the servers for the legacy clients were finally shut down sometime between the mid-morning and early afternoon hours east coast time on September 1, 2016, resulting in the legacy desktop clients no longer being able to access their buddy/contact lists. Yahoo Messenger was shut down on July 17, 2018. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Features [ ] File sharing [ ] Yahoo! Messenger offered file sending capabilities to its users. Files could be up to 2 GB each. Since the software's relaunch, only certain media files can be shared: photos, animated and videos.