Skype, RIP

The video calling pioneer that lost its way.
Skype, RIP
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Katrina Gulliver
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So farewell to Skype, which has just been retired by its parent company Microsoft. I’ll admit I’d used it less and less frequently in recent years, but I’d had an account since university. There was a time when “Skype” was used in conversation in the same way that “Zoom” is now, to refer to any video call. And for a while in the aughts, Skype was the main video call game in town.
Katrina Gulliver
Katrina Gulliver
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Katrina Gulliver is editorial director at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). She holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, and has held faculty positions at universities in Germany, Britain, and Australia. She has written for Wall Street Journal, Reason, The American Conservative, National Review, and the New Criterion, among others.