For us plebs. Government (US) will still use it for years to come.
I think Teams has already taken over there as well.
Skype you later!
I remember the "old" Skype, which was essential for keeping in touch with my siblings before we got cell phones. Once I got a phone, it was the end of Skype until ~2014 when I got a job where Skype for business was available. I still didn't use it because that application would sometimes crash if you just jiggled the mouse. It became a running joke at my workplace.
Clock into work, Skype crashed.
Go to lunch, Skype crashed.
Ran out of TP at home. You guessed it. Skype crashed.
Not really. It’s just called “Teams” now.
Who?
I actually had a Skype phone back in the days
Everyone cashed out on Skype the day it was sold to eBay. Years later people are still wondering what happened to it?? The train left the station forever ago.
Yup. It was THE app to use way back in the day. Before that was Ventrilo, but setting up a Vent server was a pain in the ass. I got it working once, but it was a lot of port tinkering and giving out my IP to trusted friends.
Skype made it so easy to just click and call or else make rooms for your guild in whatever game you played at the time (my poison of choice was Ragnarok Online).
Then Skype changed hands, started monetizing, pushing Windows pre-installs, and would even watch conversations to make sure no one was using the app for sexual purposes.
giving out my IP to trusted friends
Just in case you ever get back into it: We regularly see scanners scanning the internet with a million packets per second at work these days. That means it takes them 4000 seconds to scan the entire IPv4 Internet to check who responds on port 3784. So handing out the IP selectively won't be enough.
I also learned that the hard way privately with my Minecraft server. It was found in a scan and listed on Shodan at some point, and I hadn't put up a whitelist. Some shitty kids came and destroyed whatever they could find before finally putting up signs to mock me lol
Huh?
I thought Skype was still a widely used thing.
And nothing of continued/existing value was lost... 🤷♂️ 🙄
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