Skype
A verb for video calling, bought for $8.5 billion and starved for fourteen years in favour of Teams. Died in May 2025; nobody under thirty noticed.
Born
Peak
Died
Cause of death
Shut down by Microsoft
First sighting
Skype Technologies, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis
Life & death · 2002–2027
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PEAK 2010
BORN · August 2003
DIED · 5 May 2025
NOW · 2026
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