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Skype? Good?
Skype was good?
Skype was good until the last hour I could use it.
Are you confusing it with skype4biz? Two different things. Go learn.
Anyway, yeah. It was highly-usable and very consistently good.
No I am not confusing it. When microsoft got it they made it much worse, as they centralized all calls, were before it was p2p after the call was made.
But prior to that, when it first started to go from skype to skype was free and it was ok. To go from skype to landline cost money. But there were plenty of other services that did that for free. I suppose it was just because we were computer savy at the time so skype didn’t seem like a big deal.
They did do a lot of things right though. Encryption, conference calling, and a lot of devices support.
Anyways, you know who made skype? The same people who brought us Kazaa.
skype was never good.
skype was never good.
I used it daily. 100% usable. Nothing came close; really. And I used pidgin to consolidate remote YIM, ICQ, AOL, MSN and Jabber contacts.
Yeah this is a new gender neutral restroom.
in addition to up and down arrows,we need a ‘?’ button
Best compliment I’ve received.
People seeing Skype through rose tinted glasses now that it’s dead
Untrue. I regretted its death, Teams and Zoom aren’t as simple and clear.
And my client still works. I conversed with a teams contact at 5:39 today.
Copilot isn’t working, though:
I remember calling my friends on Skype using my PSP and going “wow, this is the future!”
Snicker, first time? Guess y’all never used ICQ.
Uh-oh!
5-digit ID.
And here I am today, still using IRC.
I also occasionally refer to slack as IRC. And then some of the nerdier colleagues snicker.
Haven’t used Skype for years to talk to friends or family, but kept using it until now when I needed to call some place in my home country (usually banks) by “real” phone call, because support via internet either sucks or doesn’t exist at all. Now looking for alternatives…
Wasn’t pre-MS Skype from a company that previously ran a sketchy P2P network that stole your CPU cycles?
Nope. You may have them confused.
You sure? Quoth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaa:
Kazaa and FastTrack were originally created and developed by Estonian programmers from BlueMoon Interactive[3] including Jaan Tallinn and sold to Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Danish programmer Janus Friis (who were later to create Skype and later still Joost and Rdio). Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March 2001, near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001. Skype itself was based on Kazaa’s P2P backend, which allowed users to make a call by directly connecting them with each other.[4]
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In 2006 StopBadware.org identified Kazaa as a spyware application.[19] They identified the following components:
- Cydoor (spyware): Collects information on the PC’s surfing habits and passes it on to Cydoor Desktop Media.
- B3D (adware): An add-on which causes advertising popups if the PC accesses a website which triggers the B3D code.
- Altnet (adware): A distribution network for paid “gold” files.
- The Best Offers (adware): Tracks user’s browsing habits and internet usage to display advertisements similar to their interests.
- InstaFinder (hijacker): Redirects URL typing errors to InstaFinder’s web page instead of the standard search page.
- TopSearch (adware): Displays paid songs and media related to a Kazaa search.
- RX Toolbar (spyware): The toolbar monitors all sites visited with Microsoft Internet Explorer and provides links to competitors’ websites.
- New.net (hijacker): A browser plugin that allowed users to access several of its own unofficial Top Level Domain names, e.g., .chat and .shop. The main purpose of this was to sell domain names such as www.record.shop which is actually www.record.shop.new.net (ICANN did not allow third-party registration of generic top level domains until 2012).
This was specifically why I was avoiding Skype 20+ years ago. They were sketchy as fuhhhhhhh
