remember yahoo chat?

remember yahoo chat? Funny I had not thought about yahoo chat in several years now until tonight talking with someone I have known for along time. And of course he brought up the old yahoo booter site I used to run back in the day.. well ok I ran it for years until Sept 2010 when I closed it. Of course now yahoo chat is dead officially (course it was dead some years ago before yahoo actually pulled the plug)

Yep I was one of them evil people that made the booter programs that would kick people out of chat. had a website full of yahoo programs, plus many many other things.

Thinking back to 98'ish when I 1st put the site up I never thought it would have gotten as big as it did nor did I ever thought id see the day yahoo would pretty much die. I also didn't think it would have made me quite a bit of money. (seriously at one point it was making me about 5k per month in ads) When I pulled the plug it had about 2 million registered members something like 600,000 downloads and who knows how many forum posts. Thinking about it now it feels like it was decades ago. I will have to see if I can find the CD stack that contained the last backup files. I do remember the site being something like 30 or 40GB in file size and the mysql db backup file was insanely massive.

funny how life changes over the years, and how you forget stuff and then someone will say something that sparks a memory and you remember it all. for about 5 years now I hadn't thought much about it, something that was part of my life for a bit over a decade, strange how our memories work eh? I remember many lulz I had with some of the members also remember in a rush server moves that would cause me to be up 48 hours strait. I guess in all I should have saved all that money instead of just giving pretty much all of it away. hindsight really is 20/20.

Yay, old school Yahoo! Chat.

"A/S/L?"
(Shour's response: "Cretaceous/No/In between various planes of reality.")

"Any pretty girls in the room, press 123!"
(Shour's response: "No one can press that, because I've never seen a keyboard with a 123 key, moron.")

"Wanna cyber?"
("Dude, please don't ever type that into public chat again. Yuck.")

"Anyone got pics?"
("I'm sure many people have pics. No one here is desperate enough to show you, however.")

I was something of a trouble maker. A proto-troll, if you will. ^_^

(Also, LONGEST Wisebeardman post EVAR. Awesome.)

Yup, I remember Yahoo chat rooms. Omigoodness, what a ZOO!!! I could never remain in any room for very long because I couldn't keep up with all the regulars and the bizarro conversations.

I also remember AOL chat rooms. Do they still exist or are they gone, too?

chances are the aol stuff is gone as well, never did anything with aol really.

yahoo chat really died back in 2005 when they closed the user rooms down. (real reason they closed the user rooms down wasnt cause of the perverts going after kids, it was cause the porn bots had a hard time accessing the user rooms and yahoo was on the take which is why yahoo never really did anything with the porn spam problem in the main rooms.)

I always wondered what happened to yahoo chat! Impressive skills though wisebeard!

I actually met my second husband on yahoo chat! We're divorced now....I was also on aol chat and met my friend Marty and Ann from there....we're still friends!

I had a similar answer to "ASL?"

9026/neutral/Antria, a planet in the Xyphos Nebula.

If anyone questioned my age, well, Antria has a much faster revolution than your Earth. Our years are shorter so our age racks up faster.

ohhh this took me back to dem high school dayzzzzz.

and early college dayzzzz.

Wow!!! Yahoo chat? Of course, I do remember! I remember using all types of chat since 1996 such as talk.com (I do a telnet on the Unix system), alamak.com, yahoo chat, ICQ, MSN, haha....I still remember at work in 2006, I made a comparison between yahoo chat, MSN and skype to propose a better chat system for the company to use as communication among the staff!

I was never on Yahoo chat but I was on AOL chat many times.

Well yahoo chat is really famous in 90th i think, i remember i hv many friends from that. Some are funny n they help me with my english (even not grammatical english)
Too bad mostly ppl in yahoo chat are fake (not making generalazitation)
I still keep my yahoo but seldom use it.
Well i prefer whatsapp coz its more better n i know to whom im talking with ☺

Was never on!!! Was to busy chatting to every one in person! Still my preferred method! However great skills you can still use to make that kinda money again through YOUTUBE, etc.

eh, not as easy as one thinks actually. it took years from start before it made that kind of cash.

Now that you mentioned it..

Yes indeed, anything successful takes years of hard work to prosper properly!

I remember yahoo chat, killed plenty of time shooting pool in their messenger

and i been there done that, i was like peoples favorite rock station who was around for years and then one day, the format changed.

I remember back in either junior high or high school I never was much on doing the chat until I was on the computer and someone I didn't know sent me a message, it was scary because they obviously knew me. It actually turned out to be someone I went to school with so that made me feel a lot more at ease.

Technology is crazy because nowadays we have Skype and I just updated my phone and I had to figure out how to use my emoji's its always changing and its hard keeping up with all of it. Lol. I miss the good old days of mailing a personalized letter or actually meeting up with people without the phone or internet.

Been there done that too!!!! However you are a Happy Wise Bearded man!!!! Smile with the fact that chapter is done and new ones are ahead!

Speaking of chats.... CC chat is pretty cool. The only complaint I have is most people who post in the forums don't go into the chat much at all - and the people in the chat rooms don't come into the forums so I don't know them very well.

There have been a few exceptions. One night a bunch of us forum posters met in the chat room and we even had a DJ who played dance music. It was awesome! I remember Abing was there but I forget who all else came in. We had a fantastic time!!

I wish we could do something like that more often.