{"id":443449,"date":"2018-06-09T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=443449"},"modified":"2018-06-09T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T15:06:00","slug":"yahoo-messenger-is-shutting-down-on-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=443449","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Messenger Is Shutting Down on July 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a 20-year run, Yahoo Messenger is finally shutting down this summer. Yahoo has not given a reason as to why it is ending the application, nor does the company have a replacement product available. This follows the death of AOL&#8217;s AIM, which was shut down in October.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nYahoo Messenger first made its debut as Yahoo Pager way back in 1998, at a time when instant messaging was the terrain of PCs, as an alternative to email and SMS on basic mobile devices. It was an early hit and popularized the idea of &#8220;over the top&#8221; messaging that was not tied to a specific service provider.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nDiscussion&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: [H]ardOCP &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardocp.com\/news\/2018\/06\/09\/yahoo_messenger_shutting_down_on_july_17\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Messenger Is Shutting Down on July 17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 20-year run, Yahoo Messenger is finally shutting down this summer. Yahoo has not given a reason as to why it is ending the application, nor does the company have a replacement product available. This follows the death of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=443449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,110],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-443449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardocp","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-hardocp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}