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“It once ran the whole fun part of the internet, and it never asked for a flashlight”
“Read receipts and the little D — you always let us know you cared.”
BBM, formally BlackBerry Messenger, was a consumer-oriented mobile instant messenger and videotelephony app from BlackBerry Limited, built around the BlackBerry PIN system. It started life on BlackBerry devices before going cross-platform in 2013, and later ran briefly under license by Indonesia's Emtek. Fans could text, swap pictures, voicenotes, stickers, a wide selection of emojis, files up to 16 MB, and even shar
BBM was shut down on May 31, 2019, closing out a service that had carried conversations over the internet since the days of dedicated BlackBerry data plans. It wasn't a total funeral: the paid enterprise edition, BBM Enterprise, lives on as part of BlackBerry's Unified Endpoint Manager service. The consumer app is gone, but the blue double-check spirit survives in the server room.
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“It once ran the whole fun part of the internet, and it never asked for a flashlight”
“Point, shoot, learn. It taught our cameras to read the world.”
“It gave Community a sixth season — that alone earns a kind farewell.”