When Skype debuted in 2003, it was the first time I remember feeling that an individual app—and not just the broader internet—was radically disrupting communications. Thanks to its implementation of ...
I was shocked to learn that Skype is shutting down in two months: I have been using it as my main chat app since it was acquired by MS and it replaced MSN/Windows/Live Messenger almost 30 years ago.
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What happened to Skype?

A wave of nostalgia hit the internet on Monday after Microsoft officially pulled the plug on Skype, as announced by the company earlier this year. Founded in 2003 in Luxembourg, the blue cloud company ...
It may be somewhat hard to remember — what with sporadically poor call performance, lots of other hardware to play around with and all those apps — that the iPhone is more-or-less primarily a tool for ...
I worked with a voice therapist during the pandemic, when seeing her in person was obviously not an option. We used Skype. None of the other apps she tried (Zoom and Teams at minimum, probably others) ...