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The rise and fall - and reincarnation! - of the beloved '90s chatroom
Facebook chose an odd time to launch Rooms, its homage to the classic '90s chatroom.
AOL's Instant Messenger, perhaps the icon of the anonymous instant-messaging age, quietly killed off its chat rooms in 2010. Yahoo Messenger axed its public chat rooms in 2012, explaining only that they weren't a "core Yahoo! product." And when