Yahoo Messenger will be discontinued
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It supports XMPP and ICQ protocols still, but my goodness, I'm now learning what it means to be old and lose the systems I used during my formative years. Is this what it felt like to have BBSes die? Yes they still technically exist, but their 'mainstream' days are behind them.
The only remaining service I now use with pidgin is gtalk, but it doesn't support offline messages. Or rather, Google didn't implement them in XMPP, so as a result there is a black hole where sent messages go into and I never see them unless I log into Google's Hangouts with a browser.
My air-gapped PC supports the Windows XP tour and erm Hover! and that's about it.
I know what you mean though, it was weird when AIM shuttered, my account was old enough to vote. It is a strange thing when something that was so integral to your life at one point no longer exists.
Why can't they ironically use Yahoo Messenger, and leave Facebook for Myspace?
That way hypsters can let everyone know how purposely "uncool" they are, but also keep some competition alive in the marketplace.