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I kept receiving notifications from an app called "Messenger" which is not accidentally also how the SMS app in stock android is named.

Facebook Messenger came out first.

Facebook (2011): http://web.archive.org/web/20120310004637/https://play.googl...

Google (2014): http://web.archive.org/web/20141112233236/https://play.googl...

MSN Messenger - 1999 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger

AOL Instant Messenger - 1997 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger

ICQ Instant Messenger - 1996 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

Messenger Pigeon, 1000BC! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon

Talk Instant Messenger - 1983 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)

(okay, that was a joke)

But only the cool kids owned smart phones in 1996.

Hey, I did :)

But I gave that stuff up in 2005 ;)

It used to be called Facebook Messenger. Not sure when it changed.

Around when Microsoft gifted Facebook the @messenger twitter handle. Though I'm unsure if Microsoft also owned the messenger domain

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Gives-Messenger-Twi...

It was sometime in the last year wasn't it? I ask because I seem to recall a kerfuffle with Messenger and the new(ish) Google SMS app also called Messenger.

I've deleted fb messenger now but this was on my app menu for a while. Very unhelpful. > https://twitter.com/KatAlexPas/status/822434870223896576

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