🔗 Skype got shouted down by Teams and Zoom. But it revolutionised human connection | John Naughton

I grew up in a time when a phone call from the US meant only one thing: a death in the family. If emigrants kept in touch with the folks back home, it was only by letter

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Phone calls that would once have bankrupted a family are made every day. Microsoft may not have found Skype useful in the end. But the rest of us certainly did.