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id="toc-Criticism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Security" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Security"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Security</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Security-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" 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Messenger – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Messenger" title="Yahoo Messenger – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Yahoo Messenger" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88!_%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1" title="یاهو! مسنجر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="یاهو! مسنجر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%ED%9B%84!_%EB%A9%94%EC%8B%A0%EC%A0%80" title="야후! 메신저 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="야후! 메신저" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%82!_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0" title="याहू! मैसेन्जर – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="याहू! मैसेन्जर" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%81!_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0" title="याहु! मेसेन्जर – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="याहु! मेसेन्जर" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Yahoo! Messenger" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" title="Yahoo! Messenger – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Yahoo! 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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Instant messaging protocol</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive 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Messenger</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Yahoo_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Yahoo_logo.svg/120px-Yahoo_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Yahoo_logo.svg/180px-Yahoo_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Yahoo_logo.svg/240px-Yahoo_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="173" data-file-height="134" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Yahoo! Messenger logo from 2002 to 2016</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Yahoo_Messenger_8.1.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Yahoo_Messenger_8.1.png" decoding="async" width="184" height="454" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="184" data-file-height="454" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 (rel. September 2007 on Windows) buddy list</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>March 9, 1998<span class="noprint">; 26 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1998-03-09</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-yhoo.client.shareholder.com_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yhoo.client.shareholder.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (as Yahoo! Pager)</li> <li>June 21, 1999<span class="noprint">; 25 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1999-06-21</span>)</span> (as Yahoo! Messenger)<sup id="cite_ref-Yahoo!_Inc._-_Company_Timeline_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yahoo!_Inc._-_Company_Timeline-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Final release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">Latest versions</span></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <b>Windows:</b> 11.5.0.228 / March 13, 2012<span class="noprint">; 12 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2012-03-13</span>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>Mac:</b> 3.0.2 / July 14, 2012<span class="noprint">; 12 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2012-07-14</span>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>Windows Phone 7:</b> 1.0.6 / September 2013<span class="noprint">; 11 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2013-09</span>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>SunOS 5.7:</b> 0.99.17–1 / September 2003<span class="noprint">; 21 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2003-09</span>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>Solaris 8:</b> 1.0.4 / September 2003<span class="noprint">; 21 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2003-09</span>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>FreeBSD 4/5:</b> 1.0.4 / September 2003<span class="noprint">; 21 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2003-09</span>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>Android:</b> 2.9.2 / July 6, 2017<span class="noprint">; 7 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2017-07-06</span>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>iOS:</b> 1.0.7/ February 29, 2016<span class="noprint">; 8 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2016-02-29</span>)</span> </li></ul> </div> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>, <a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a>. <a href="/wiki/Windows" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows">Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile" title="Windows Mobile">Windows Mobile</a>, <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry_OS" title="BlackBerry OS">BlackBerry OS</a>, <a href="/wiki/FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris (operating system)">Solaris</a>, <a href="/wiki/SunOS" title="SunOS">SunOS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging_client" class="mw-redirect" title="Instant messaging client">Instant messaging client</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_phone" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet phone">Internet phone</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">Proprietary</a> <a href="/wiki/Adware" title="Adware">adware</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Yahoo! Messenger</b> (sometimes abbreviated <b>Y!M</b>) was an <a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">instant messaging</a> <a href="/wiki/Client_(computing)" title="Client (computing)">client</a> and associated protocol created and formerly operated by <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a>. 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 <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Mail" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Mail">Yahoo! Mail</a>. </p><p>The service also offered <a href="/wiki/VoIP" class="mw-redirect" title="VoIP">VoIP</a>, file transfers, webcam hosting, a text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories. In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by <a href="/wiki/ICQ" title="ICQ">ICQ</a>, it also offered (on <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of various cartoons such as <i><a href="/wiki/Garfield" title="Garfield">Garfield</a></i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Dilbert" title="Dilbert">Dilbert</a></i>), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also the first major IM client to feature BUZZing and music-status. </p><p>Yahoo! Messenger dates back to Yahoo! Chat, which was a public <a href="/wiki/Chat_room" title="Chat room">chat room</a> service. The actual client, originally called Yahoo! Pager, launched on March 9, 1998<sup id="cite_ref-yhoo.client.shareholder.com_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yhoo.client.shareholder.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and renamed to Yahoo! Messenger in 1999. Yahoo! Messenger was among the most popular instant messengers during the 2000s.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, a reworked Yahoo! Messenger service was introduced and the legacy version was discontinued in 2016. The new Yahoo! Messenger itself was shut down entirely on July 17, 2018 after less than three years.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yahoo!_Pager"><span id="Yahoo.21_Pager"></span>Yahoo! Pager</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Yahoo! Pager"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yahoo! Pager launched on March 9, 1998, an instant messaging (IM) client integrated with Yahoo! services including Yahoo! Chat (more explained in its section below). It included basic messaging support, a buddy list with status message support, the ability to block other users, alerts when a buddies came online, and notifications when a new <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Mail" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Mail">Yahoo! Mail</a> message arrived.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2000, the name changed to Yahoo! Messenger.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Versions_5_to_8">Versions 5 to 8</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Versions 5 to 8"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Version 5.0, released November 2001, introduced IMVironments, an initiative that allowed users to play music and <a href="/wiki/Flash_Video" title="Flash Video">Flash Video</a> clips inside the IM window.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ZDNet_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ZDNet-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yahoo! partnered with rock band <a href="/wiki/Garbage_(band)" title="Garbage (band)">Garbage</a> that provided their single "<a href="/wiki/Androgyny_(song)" title="Androgyny (song)">Androgyny</a>" available to share by users.<sup id="cite_ref-IM_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IM-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other partnerships also made IMVironments for the <i><a href="/wiki/Monsters,_Inc." title="Monsters, Inc.">Monsters, Inc.</a></i> movie, the <i><a href="/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Melee" title="Super Smash Bros. Melee">Super Smash Bros. Melee</a></i> video game, and the <a href="/wiki/Hello_Kitty" title="Hello Kitty">Hello Kitty</a> character, among others.<sup id="cite_ref-ZDNet_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ZDNet-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2002 with the release of version 5.5, the resolution for <a href="/wiki/Video_calling" class="mw-redirect" title="Video calling">video calling</a> was increased to a possible 320x240 and 20 frames per second (up from 160x120 and 1 frame per second).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From October 2002, Yahoo! offered for corporate subscribers a more secure and better (<a href="/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer" class="mw-redirect" title="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</a>) encrypted IM client, called Yahoo! Messenger Enterprise Edition. It was released with a $30 yearly subscription package in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Yahoo! Messenger version 6.0 was released in May 2004. It added games, music, photos, and <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Search" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Search">Yahoo! Search</a>, alongside a "stealth" mode.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also debuted Yahoo! Avatars.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the release of version 7.0 in August 2005, the client was now renamed to Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. It had several new features such as <a href="/wiki/VoIP" class="mw-redirect" title="VoIP">VoIP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Voicemail" title="Voicemail">voicemail</a>, drag-and-drop file and photo sharing, <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_360%C2%B0" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! 360°">Yahoo! 360°</a> and <a href="/wiki/LAUNCHcast" class="mw-redirect" title="LAUNCHcast">LAUNCHcast</a> integration, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was seen as a challenger against <a href="/wiki/Skype" title="Skype">Skype</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 12, 2005, Yahoo! and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> formed an alliance in which Yahoo! Messenger and <a href="/wiki/MSN_Messenger" title="MSN Messenger">MSN Messenger</a> (later known as Windows Live Messenger) will be interconnected, allowing users of both communities to communicate and share emoticons and buddy lists with each other.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The service was enabled on Yahoo! Messenger with Voice 8.0 in July 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of version 8.1, the name switched back to just Yahoo! Messenger. </p><p>Beginning in 2006, Yahoo made known its intention to provide a web interface for Yahoo! Messenger, culminating in the <a href="/wiki/Gmail" title="Gmail">Gmail</a>-like web archival and indexing of chat conversations through Yahoo! Mail. However, while Yahoo! Mail integrated much of the rudimentary features of Messenger beginning in 2007, Yahoo did not succeed initially in integrating archival of chat conversations into Mail. Instead, a separate <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flex" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Flex">Adobe Flex</a>-based web messenger<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was released in 2007 with archival of conversations which take place inside the web messenger itself.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Web_version_and_later_releases">Web version and later releases</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Web version and later releases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yahoo_Messenger_Vista_screenshot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Yahoo_Messenger_Vista_screenshot.jpg" decoding="async" width="169" height="299" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="169" data-file-height="299" /></a><figcaption>Yahoo! Messenger for Vista buddy list</figcaption></figure> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show" title="Consumer Electronics Show">Consumer Electronics Show</a> in January 2007, Yahoo! Messenger for Vista was introduced, which is a version designed and optimized for <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a>. It exploited the new design elements of Vista's <a href="/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation" title="Windows Presentation Foundation">Windows Presentation Foundation</a> (WPF) and introduced a new user interface and features.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The application was in a preview beta until finally released for download on December 6, 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of October 24, 2008, Yahoo! Messenger for Vista is no longer available.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2007, Yahoo! Messenger for the Web was launched, a browser-based client of the IM service.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Yahoo! Messenger version 9 was released in September 2008. It allows the viewing of <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> videos within the chat window, and integrates with other Yahoo! services such as <a href="/wiki/Flickr" title="Flickr">Flickr</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This version also saw the release of Pingbox, which embeds on a blog or website and allows visitors to send IM texts anonymously without needing Yahoo! Messenger software or to sign in.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Version 10, released November 2009, incorporates many bug fixes and features high-quality video calling.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The last major Windows client release, version 11 in 2011, featured integration with <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zynga" title="Zynga">Zynga</a>, allowing chat with Facebook friends and playing Zynga games within. It also archives past messages on an online server which is accessible through the client.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Version 11.5 (released November 2011) added tabbed IMs.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Yahoo_Messenger">New Yahoo Messenger</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: New Yahoo Messenger"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yahoo!_Messenger_Logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo.png/100px-Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo.png/150px-Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo.png/200px-Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo.png 2x" data-file-width="267" data-file-height="218" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yahoo!_Messenger_Logo_(2013-2018).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo_%282013-2018%29.svg/150px-Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo_%282013-2018%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo_%282013-2018%29.svg/225px-Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo_%282013-2018%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo_%282013-2018%29.svg/300px-Yahoo%21_Messenger_Logo_%282013-2018%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="163" /></a></span> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_Yahoo_Messenger_screenshot.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/New_Yahoo_Messenger_screenshot.png/250px-New_Yahoo_Messenger_screenshot.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/New_Yahoo_Messenger_screenshot.png/375px-New_Yahoo_Messenger_screenshot.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/New_Yahoo_Messenger_screenshot.png 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="235" /></a><figcaption>Desktop version of Yahoo! Messenger (2016)</figcaption></figure> <p>In December 2015, an all-new, rewritten Yahoo! Messenger was launched, only on mobile and through a browser.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A desktop version of the "new" Messenger was later released,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> shortly before the "legacy" Messenger shut down on August 5, 2016<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the clients no longer working by August 31, 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unable to find success like in the older days, Yahoo! eventually announced that the new Yahoo! Messenger service will shut down on July 18, 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mobile_versions">Mobile versions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Mobile versions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mobile versions of Yahoo! Messenger were launched originally for <a href="/wiki/Palm_OS" title="Palm OS">Palm OS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_CE" title="Windows CE">Windows CE</a> devices.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a deal signed March 2000, Yahoo! Messenger would come bundled on <a href="/wiki/Palm,_Inc." title="Palm, Inc.">Palm</a> handheld computers.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also available for <a href="/wiki/Verizon_Wireless" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon Wireless">Verizon Wireless</a> customers, through a deal with Yahoo! announced in March 2001,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and through <a href="/wiki/Sprint_Corporation" title="Sprint Corporation">Sprint</a>'s MiniBrowser.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> A version for the <a href="/wiki/T-Mobile_Sidekick_II" class="mw-redirect" title="T-Mobile Sidekick II">T-Mobile Sidekick II</a> was released in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was to be followed by versions for <a href="/wiki/Symbian" title="Symbian">Symbian</a> (via <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Go" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Go">Yahoo! Go</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry" title="BlackBerry">BlackBerry</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then for <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a> in April 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A version called Yahoo! Messenger for SMS also existed, which allowed IM via <a href="/wiki/SMS" title="SMS">SMS</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of January 2014, the <a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a> version supported voice calls, with video calling on some devices.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> version supported "voice & video calls (<a href="/wiki/Beta_version" class="mw-redirect" title="Beta version">beta</a>)".<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yahoo!_Together"><span id="Yahoo.21_Together"></span>Yahoo! Together</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Yahoo! Together"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Together-logo-1.0.8.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Together-logo-1.0.8.png/220px-Together-logo-1.0.8.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Together-logo-1.0.8.png/330px-Together-logo-1.0.8.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Together-logo-1.0.8.png/440px-Together-logo-1.0.8.png 2x" data-file-width="1116" data-file-height="226" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>Yahoo! Together was a <a href="/wiki/Freeware" title="Freeware">freeware</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cross-platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-platform">cross-platform</a> <a href="/wiki/Messaging_apps" class="mw-redirect" title="Messaging apps">messaging</a> service, developed by <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a><sup id="cite_ref-discontinued_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-discontinued-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> and <a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a> mobile platforms.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The software was introduced in <a href="/wiki/Beta" title="Beta">beta</a> on May 8, 2018, as Yahoo! Squirrel to replace Yahoo! Messenger and <a href="/wiki/Verizon_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon Media">Verizon Media</a>'s <a href="/wiki/AIM_(software)" title="AIM (software)">AOL Instant Messenger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2018, it was renamed to its present name.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yahoo! Together was targeted to families and the consumer market rather than enterprise.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The app was compared to <a href="/wiki/Slack_(software)" title="Slack (software)">Slack</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Less than a year after its public beta release, Yahoo! Together went offline on April 4, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-discontinued_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-discontinued-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Group_conversations_(Yahoo!_Chat)"><span id="Group_conversations_.28Yahoo.21_Chat.29"></span>Group conversations (Yahoo! Chat)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Group conversations (Yahoo! Chat)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yahoochat.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Yahoochat.png/220px-Yahoochat.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Yahoochat.png/330px-Yahoochat.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Yahoochat.png 2x" data-file-width="365" data-file-height="273" /></a><figcaption>A screenshot of the Yahoo! Chat service, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 2000</span></figcaption></figure> <p>Yahoo! Messenger allowed private group conversations. <b>Yahoo! Chat</b> was a free online chat room service provided exclusively for Yahoo! users. Yahoo! Chat was first launched on January 7, 1997. Yahoo! Chat was a separate vertical on Yahoo!.<sup id="cite_ref-Yahoo!_Inc._-_Company_Timeline_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yahoo!_Inc._-_Company_Timeline-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On March 9, 1998, the first public version of Yahoo! Pager was released, with Yahoo! Chat among its features. It allowed users to create public chat rooms, send private messages, and use emoticons. </p><p>In its original form, Yahoo! Chat was a user-to-user text chat service used by millions worldwide. Soon after launch, Yahoo! Chat partnered with <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> and <a href="/wiki/NewsCorp" class="mw-redirect" title="NewsCorp">NewsCorp</a> to produce moderated Chat Events. Yahoo! Chat events eventually developed broadcast partnerships with 100+ entities and hosted 350+ events-a-month. Yahoo's Live Chat with the music group Hanson on July 21, 1998, was the Internet's largest live event to date. The blockbusters kept on with events including 3 Beatles (Paul, George, Ringo), a live event from Columbine during the tragedy (in partnership with Time Online), live chats from outer space with John Glenn and many others. Sadly, in one of Yahoo's poorer decisions, Yahoo! Chat Events were discontinued in 2001, right at the start of the social media era. </p><p>In June 2005, with no advance warning, Yahoo disabled users' ability to create their own chat rooms. The move came after <a href="/wiki/KPRC-TV" title="KPRC-TV">KPRC-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Houston,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Houston, Texas">Houston, Texas</a>, reported that many of the user-created rooms were geared toward <a href="/wiki/Pedophilia" title="Pedophilia">pedophilia</a>. The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and <a href="/wiki/Georgia-Pacific" title="Georgia-Pacific">Georgia-Pacific</a>, to pull their ads from Yahoo.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 30, 2012, Yahoo announced that among other changes that the public chat rooms would be discontinued as of December 14, 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-help.yahoo.com_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-help.yahoo.com-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ymessengerblog.com_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ymessengerblog.com-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-help.yahoo.com_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-help.yahoo.com-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> quoting "This will enable us to refocus our efforts on modernizing our core Yahoo products experiences and of course, create new ones </p><p>Yahoo has since closed down the chat.yahoo.com site (first having it redirect visitors to a section of the Yahoo! Messenger page, but as of June 2019 not even resolving that host name anymore) because the great majority of chat users accessed it through Messenger. The company worked for a while on a way to allow users to create their own rooms while providing safeguards against abuse<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. A greyed-out option to "create a room" was available until the release of version 11. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Games">Games</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There were various games and applications available that can be accessed via the conversation window by clicking the games icon and challenging your current contact. It requires <a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a> to function. As of April 18, 2014, games were removed from Yahoo! Messenger.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plug-ins">Plug-ins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Plug-ins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In version 8.0, Yahoo! Messenger featured the ability for users to create plug-ins, which are then hosted and showcased on the Yahoo chat room. Yahoo! Messenger users could listen to free and paid <a href="/wiki/Internet_radio" title="Internet radio">Internet radio</a> services, using the defunct <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Music_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Music Radio">Yahoo! Music Radio</a> plug-in from within the messenger window. The plug-in also player functionality, such as play, pause, skip and rate this song. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Protocol">Protocol</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Protocol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Yahoo! Messenger Protocol (YMSG) was the client's underlying <a href="/wiki/Network_protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Network protocol">network protocol</a>. It provided a language and series of conventions for software communicating with Yahoo!'s Instant Messaging service. In essence, YMSG performed the same role for Yahoo!'s IM as <a href="/wiki/HTTP" title="HTTP">HTTP</a> does for the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a>. Unlike HTTP, however, YMSG was a proprietary protocol, a closed standard aligned only with the Yahoo! messaging service. Rival messaging services have their own protocols, some based on open standards, others proprietary, each effectively fulfilling the same role with different mechanics.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the fundamental tenets of instant messaging is the notion that users can see when someone is connected to the network—known in the industry as 'presence'. The YMSG protocol used the mechanics of a standard internet connection to achieve presence—the same connection it used to send and receive data. In order for each user to remain 'visible' to other users on the service, and thereby signaling their availability, their Yahoo! IM client software maintained a functional, open, network connection linking the client to Yahoo!'s IM servers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="URI_scheme">URI scheme</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: URI scheme"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yahoo! Messenger's installation process automatically installed an extra <a href="/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier" class="mw-redirect" title="Uniform resource identifier">uniform resource identifier</a> (URI) scheme handler for the Yahoo! Messenger Protocol into some web browsers, so that URIs beginning <code>ymsgr</code> could open a new Yahoo! Messenger window with specified parameters. This is similar in function to the <a href="/wiki/Mailto" title="Mailto">mailto</a> URI scheme, which creates a new e-mail message using the system's default mail program. For instance, a web page might include a link like the following in its HTML source to open a window for sending a message to the YIM user <i>exampleuser</i>: </p><p><a href="<b>ymsgr:sendim?exampleuser</b>">Send Message</a> </p><p>To specify a message body, the <code>m</code> parameter was used, so that the link location might look like this: ymsgr:sendim?exampleuser&m=<b>This+is+my+message</b> </p><p>Other commands were: </p> <ul><li><code>ymsgr:sendim?<i>yahooid</i></code></li> <li><code>ymsgr:addfriend?<i>yahooid</i></code></li> <li><code>ymsgr:sendfile?<i>yahooid</i></code></li> <li><code>ymsgr:call?<i>yahooid</i></code></li> <li><code>ymsgr:callPhone?<i>phonenumber</i></code></li> <li><code>ymsgr:im</code> – opened the "Send an IM" window</li> <li><code>ymsgr:customstatus?<i>A+custom+status</i></code> – changed the status message</li> <li><code>ymsgr:getimv?<i>imvname</i></code> – loaded an IMVironment (example: <code>ymsgr:getimv?doodle</code>, <code>ymsgr:getimv?yfighter</code>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interoperability">Interoperability</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Interoperability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On October 13, 2005, Yahoo and Microsoft announced plans to introduce interoperability between their two messengers, creating the second-largest real-time communications service userbase worldwide: 40 percent of all users.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The announcement came after years of third-party interoperability success (most notably, <a href="/wiki/Trillian_(instant_messaging_client)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trillian (instant messaging client)">Trillian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pidgin_(software)" title="Pidgin (software)">Pidgin</a>) and criticisms that the major real-time communications services were locking their networks. Microsoft has also had talks with AOL in an attempt to introduce further interoperability, but AOL was unwilling to participate. </p><p>Interoperability between Yahoo and Windows Live Messenger was launched July 12, 2006. This allowed Yahoo and Windows Live Messenger users to chat to each other without the need to create an account on the other service, provided both contacts used the latest versions of the clients. It was not possible to talk using the voice service between the two different messengers. </p><p>As of December 14, 2012, the interoperability between Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger ceased to exist.<sup id="cite_ref-ymessengerblog.com_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ymessengerblog.com-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Live Messenger contacts appeared as greyed out and it was not possible to send instant messages to them. </p><p>Third-party clients that could access the original service included: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 18em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adium" title="Adium">Adium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BitlBee" title="BitlBee">BitlBee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centericq" title="Centericq">Centericq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empathy_(software)" title="Empathy (software)">Empathy</a></li> <li>Fire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imeem" title="Imeem">imeem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IMVU" title="IMVU">IMVU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kopete" title="Kopete">Kopete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meebo" title="Meebo">meebo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meetro" title="Meetro">Meetro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miranda_NG" title="Miranda NG">Miranda NG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paltalk" title="Paltalk">Paltalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pidgin_(software)" title="Pidgin (software)">Pidgin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trillian_(software)" title="Trillian (software)">Trillian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trillian_(software)" title="Trillian (software)">Trillian Astra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trillian_(software)" title="Trillian (software)">Trillian</a> Pro</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Live Messenger">Windows Live Messenger</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Usage">Usage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of August 2000, according to <a href="/wiki/Media_Metrix" class="mw-redirect" title="Media Metrix">Media Metrix</a>, Yahoo! Messenger had about 10.6 million users in the U.S., about the same as <a href="/wiki/MSN_Messenger" title="MSN Messenger">MSN Messenger</a> but trailing <a href="/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="AOL Instant Messenger">AOL Instant Messenger</a>. However another analyst doubted the figures for Yahoo! and MSN.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of the month of September 2001, over five billion instant messages were sent on the network, up 115% from the year before, according to Media Metrix.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another study in August 2002 showed that it had a 16.7 percent share of IM work and home subscribers in the U.S., compared to 24.1 percent for MSN and 28.3 percent for AIM.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2002, 19.1 million people in the U.S. used Yahoo! Messenger, according to Media Metrix.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another study from <a href="/wiki/Nielsen_Net_Ratings" class="mw-redirect" title="Nielsen Net Ratings">Nielsen Net Ratings</a> showed that as of 2002, Yahoo! Messenger had some 12 million users worldwide. This increased to 22 million by March 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Yahoo! Messenger was the dominant instant messaging platform among certain energy <a href="/wiki/Trade" title="Trade">traders</a> until the platform was discontinued in August 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time of Yahoo! Messenger's closure in 2018, it remained popular in <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism">Criticism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Yahoo! Messenger users were subjected to unsolicited messages (<a href="/wiki/Messaging_spam" title="Messaging spam">SPIM</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yahoo's primary solution to the issue involved deleting such messages and placing the senders on an Ignore List.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2007<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, it was estimated that at least 75% of all users who used Yahoo chat rooms were bots.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yahoo introduced a <a href="/wiki/CAPTCHA" title="CAPTCHA">CAPTCHA</a> system to help filter out bots from joining chat rooms, but such systems generally do little to prevent abuse by spammers.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Security">Security</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Security"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On November 4, 2014, the <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> listed Yahoo! Messenger on its "Secure Messaging Scorecard". Yahoo! Messenger received 1 out of 7 points on the scorecard. It received a point for encryption during transit, but missed points because communications were not encrypted with a key the provider didn't have access to (i.e. the communications were not <a href="/wiki/End-to-end_encryption" title="End-to-end encryption">end-to-end encrypted</a>), users couldn't verify contacts' identities, past messages were not secure if the encryption keys were stolen (i.e. the service did not provide <a href="/wiki/Forward_secrecy" title="Forward secrecy">forward secrecy</a>), the code was not open to independent review (i.e. the source code was not <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source</a>), the security design was not properly documented, and there had not been a recent independent <a href="/wiki/Security_audit" class="mw-redirect" title="Security audit">security audit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-secure-messaging-scorecard_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-secure-messaging-scorecard-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The British intelligence agency <a href="/wiki/Government_Communications_Headquarters" class="mw-redirect" title="Government Communications Headquarters">Government Communications Headquarters</a> (GCHQ)'s secret <a href="/wiki/Mass_surveillance" title="Mass surveillance">mass surveillance</a> program <a href="/wiki/Optic_Nerve_(GCHQ)" title="Optic Nerve (GCHQ)">Optic Nerve</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> (NSA) were reported to be indiscriminately collecting still images from Yahoo webcam streams from millions of mostly innocent Yahoo webcam users from 2008 to 2010, among other things creating a database for facial recognition for future use. Optic Nerve took a still image from the webcam stream every 5 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2016, <i>The New York Times</i> reported that Yahoo's security team, led by <a href="/wiki/Alex_Stamos" title="Alex Stamos">Alex Stamos</a>, had pressed for Yahoo to adopt end-to-end encryption sometime between 2014 and 2015, but this had been resisted by <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bonforte" title="Jeff Bonforte">Jeff Bonforte</a>, Yahoo's senior vice president, "because it would have hurt Yahoo's ability to index and search message data".<sup id="cite_ref-Perlroth-2016-09-29_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perlroth-2016-09-29-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="AOL Instant Messenger">AOL Instant Messenger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_cross-platform_instant_messaging_clients" title="Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients">Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_protocols" title="Comparison of instant messaging protocols">Comparison of instant messaging protocols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients">Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Facebook_Chat" class="mw-redirect" title="Facebook Chat">Facebook Chat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">Instant messaging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MSN_Messenger" title="MSN Messenger">MSN Messenger</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_Messenger&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Open</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Distributed_Data_Protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Distributed Data Protocol">DDP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instant_Messaging_and_Presence_Protocol" title="Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol">IMPP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IRC" title="IRC">IRC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)" title="Matrix (protocol)">Matrix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MTProto" class="mw-redirect" title="MTProto">MTProto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Retroshare" title="Retroshare">Retroshare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Signal_Protocol" title="Signal Protocol">Signal Protocol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol" title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Message_Session_Relay_Protocol" title="Message Session Relay Protocol">MSRP</a></li> <li><a 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