That really, really, has to feel bad for Skype’s developers.

Worst of all, the COVID pandemic lockdowns, a perfect opportunity for Skype’s growth, had the platform’s thunder absolutely burgled by the likes of Zoom and Google Meet.

Now, as we start 2022, barely anyone even remembers Skype. It really seemed like the social media platform would be around and popular forever. To paraphrase from a hilarious CollegeHumor video, Skype became so incredibly popular that the name itself also became a verb: people were Skyping each other all the time, and were asking friends to Skype them over the summer break, and so on. Suddenly, anyone could just about see anyone else, regardless of distance or time – video chatting had finally found its way into the general consciousness. Remember when Skype was around, everyone? That weird time when the 2000’s were bleeding into the 2010’s and video calls were becoming more and more of a commodity? While video calling had been around for quite a while before this, Skype’s introduction to the world in 2003 and wide-scale success a few years down the line is what made the technology mainstream. User complaints reveal that signing up for a Microsoft account via Skype is apparently difficult enough to the point that a complicated captcha must be solved ten separate times.

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