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. Messenger was originally launched under the name Yahoo! Pager on March 9, 1998.
Yahoo Messenger will no longer be available after July 17, 2018. Find the answers to your questions and read how to download your conversations into a permanent file. Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M) is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!
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.