Revisiting Yahoo! Messenger
Do you remember using Yahoo! Messenger? That was the app to connect with my friends when I was in school as the internet was basically based on a Digital Describer Line and prepaid cards.
The plethora of apps abundance that we enjoy today, I believe, was based on how great YM was back in the day. You could chat with your friends whom you would know if he or she was online by just checking your friends’ list or buzzing them so they could notice you.
It was extremely advanced for its time but too bad, smartphones back then were
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not as sophisticated as it is with family and friends. It had now. Internet cafes were all the a 20-year lifespan, and we were rage as phones were relatively all there to witness a preview of expensive and PCs or laptops what we take for granted today. were too bulky. Yahoo! tried to replace YM with
Data too was not as readily Squirrel which didn’t take off and available and there were limited had to close just a year later. data plans for the masses, unlike Discussing YM also brings back today. But YM was fun and easy to memories of connecting with use, similar to the current roster new people by using chat clients of messaging apps like WhatsApp, like ICQ, MIRC, MSN Messenger, Viber, Telegram, Signal, and and other non-encrypted public Facebook Messenger. chatrooms.
It had chat rooms, video calls, Back in the stickers, and even emojis where day, advertisers you could alternatively express wouldn’t be yourself or even flirt with your able to “target” crushes. It was an innovative you, offering service by Yahoo! that allowed us to products and avoid text messaging charges and services. Online we could initiate a conversation data collection with unlimited capacity provided through messaging of course that the internet had apps was not as enough speed and if the prepaid exploitative and load was enough. the most important
I can just imagine YM competing feature of all was that you could among the messaging apps today enjoy your time with friends if the right technology was present without censoring yourself for at that time. It was July 2018 when fear of being reported, LOL.
YM finally shut down and said The OG of all IMs was YM!
its farewell to a generation of its This is as “Tito” as I could get in users who relied on it to interact 2022, LMAO! such as crystal meth and cocaine.
But what really is decriminalization?
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime website contains insightful information on the subject.
“Decriminalization is the removal of criminal penalties for drug law violations (usual possession for personal use).”
It said “roughly two dozen countries, and dozens of US cities and states, have taken steps toward decriminalization. By decriminalizing possession and investing in treatment and harm reduction services, we can reduce the harms of drug misuse while improving public safety and health.”
Decriminalizing drug possession, said the UNODC, can lead to the following beneficial scenarios:
• Reducing the number of people arrested;
• Reducing the number of people incarcerated;
• Increasing uptake into drug treatment;
• Reducing criminal justice costs and redirecting resources from criminal justice to health systems;
• Redirecting law enforcement resources to prevent serious and violent crimes;
• Diminishing unjust racial disparities in drug law enforcement and sentencing, incarceration, and related health characteristics and outcomes;
• Minimizing the social exclusion of people who use drugs, and creating a climate in which they are less fearful of seeking and accessing treatment, utilizing harm reduction services, and receiving HIV/AIDS services;
• Improving relations between law enforcement and the community; and
• Protecting people from the wide-ranging and debilitating consequences of a criminal conviction.
“It had a 20-year lifespan, and we were all there to witness a preview of what we take for granted today.
“The plethora of apps abundance that we enjoy today, I believe, was based on how great YM was back in the day.
“Decriminalization is the removal of criminal penalties for drug law violations (usual possession for personal use).
In essence, and this is what Dela Rosa declared, decriminalization is one way to decongest the country’s jails. It is not meant to tolerate drug use, but to treat it humanely, especially for firsttime offenders.