Skype - The Rise and Fall?
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- Has Skype fallen? They were the original online video communication service, yet today are seen as just one of many options. This video talks about their rise and potential fall in three distinct stages.
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honestly discord really killed skype for the gaming community
@@ugotsnickers9463 Teamspeak and discord are 2 different animals. I dont know how teamspeak would be a knockoff of discord. Discord is more about socializing and It has lot more personalization and It looks better, teamspeak is just bare bones simple voice chat, that is stable and runs on every pc. Discord is a buggy mess, It lags for a lot of people, robot voices, streaming via discord is shit etc etc...
Discord is more like a forum with voice chats where You can post all kinds of stuff and build a community, while teamspeak is just a voice chat.
@@Mary1337 And so a lot less stable. A lot of the people I know lag and have robot voices on discord and We have to go to teamspeak where They dont have any problems. Its not just 1 person as I say and the same problem doesnt exist on teamspeak. The streaming is the lowest of the low, Its terrible. Discord eats a lot more resource, so people with potato pcs run into problems with It a lot.
Teamspeak is way better for just a voice chat, Its just a simple voice chat, nothing more. Discord on the other hand is more like a forum with voice channels where You can build a community. Discord is way more "social" Discord imo isnt more popular then teamspeak, because of some of the big servers with a lot of people, but all the smaller or medium servers with a group of friends who can build a community on their own discord server, which is free. Also a lot of games can have dedicated servers where people can ask all kinds of stuff about the games and talk about those games in the text channels.
@@GamingOS "Also discord doesn't really have that many audio issues and is pretty realiable" Thats the most falsest statement I ve ever read. You cant even use discord on an android phone, because either the voice of others is soo quiet You dont hear anything or You can hear people, but They can barely hear You and all your music becomes shit, because discord makes your phone go into voice call mode and the audio gets downgraded.
Also on PC, a lot of potato pcs have problem running discord and a game. They can have robot voices and all kinds of shit. This happens not with one or 2, but a LOT of my friends and It is not their mic as going to teamspeak totally fixes all their problems. Discord eats a lot more resources then teamspeak, discord is like the google chrome of voice chat softwares.
The discord stream service is also shit, I dont even know how They want me to buy nitro when discord cant even stream a game on 720 p 30 fps. Even though I have 150 fps in the game and have top notch internet, ping and a 3700x and I can easly stream on twitch, well, discord cant. Its blurry and looks like 360p or Its laggin like hell even though I play the game with 150 fps without any freezes.
@@MMOplayeerr Did you actually use "streaming in discord is shit" as a point, whilst trying to defend TS who doesn't even have streaming?
@@bdrk4650 No, I didnt, but I see You cant read. I said that teamspeak is just a simple voice chat and It is good for that and isnt comperable to discord.
There was also a statement about how discord is stable and reliable. I said how It isnt. Its laggy for a lot, It uses more resources and the streaming is yeh, shit. I dont care, If teamspeak has streaming or not, I just stated how streaming in discord is shit and thats how reliable It is.
I talked about teamspeak and discord, mostly separately and I said how what people say about discord is simply just not true. I didnt use the faults of discord to compare It with teamspeak.
But thanks for your snake talk trying to gaslight me. My points still stand and are true.
I feel like the Coronavirus pandemic offered the perfect opportunity for Skype to become essential in business and education. Instead, Zoom swallowed up all that traffic.
not really, they are still being heavily used, google Meet is also profiting from it
Zoom was eating it until the news that it leaked info to the CCP came out.
Never heard of Zoom til I read it in your comment.
Nah, Microsoft is pushing Teams and phasing out Skype for business.
@@fakebird000 I had used zoom for online grad classes before all this so it came to my mind quickly when I had to teach with distance learning. And it seems like other teachers gravitated to it and Google Meets because of familiarity and word spread from there.
I'm still waiting for "Zoom: the rise and fall"
No. The Fall And Fall
Zoom: where the fuck did it come from
I wish Skype was used for online classes.
Wherever Zoom came from, you gotta admit, they entered the scene at the right time. Right around the time Covid-19 was being to spread throughout the U.S, would be my guess. The first time I ever heard of Zoom: I was on the phone with my older sister, who lives in a Group Home, she said that she had "Zoom meeting" in a few minutes. I had no clue what that was! My sister is more trendy, and hip than I am....and she's nearing 40! 🤣
Next pandemic: …and rise again
Y'all remember Oovoo? Or is it just me? I remember it was big when I was in middle school, and some teachers even offered to provide assistance through Oovoo calls. I believe Oovoo reached it's popularity spike just before Skype did, and then later replaced Oovoo for me and everyone else I knew.
no one ever talks about but it was huge where i was everyone used it
I remember it
Sorry mate it's just you
OoVoo wasn’t big but in certain areas. It really is just you and a handful of people.
Oovoo for me was honestly pretty bad. People would get on and try to groom me and whatnot. It was pretty sexual.
The good old days when you were skyping with friends while playing minecraft
And GTA San Andreas multiplayer
Same... I used to Skype on Minecraft faction servers when we did raids or a base was under attack... Nostalgia.
And both are owned by Microsoft now.
Or friv
Whatsapp took over ans is better
The true Skype experience:
"Why is my pc slow?, I've only got 2 Chrome tabs, and Word ope... oh, Skype process is running..."
Skype always took more and more time to start up on my computer, and as soon as most of my friends moved over to Discord on 2017 my first thought was "Oh wow, i don't have to wait 15 minutes and have my computer frozen for this to open, i love it"
Too true. That's why nobody uses Skype now.
Why I preferred the stand alone version rather than the microsoft integrated app deal when I still used it.
I hate how Skype still opens automatically on Windows 10. I updated to Windows 2004 and Skyoe came preinstalled on it. It still tries to open when I boot my PC up.
Skype takes 137 mb memory when running , discord takes 172mb
It went wrong with Microsoft, specifically just the association. Microsoft has a habit of forcing their products over third party. Look at how they shove first IE now Edge. Force Cortana. Forced MSN Messenger. Even just forcing updates. You can't do a fresh install of Windows without now signing into a Microsoft account and guess what automatically installs and prompts you to create an account... Skype. For people like myself that hate, but have to live with Microsoft, that just gave us the bad association.
"You can't do a fresh install of Windows without now signing into a Microsoft account" - You can, just need to turn off internet while installing windows.
@@rmnts and that only applies for windows home edition. Windows Pro allows you the option of using a local account. still shady asf that if you connect the home edition to the net, they dont allow you to create a local account tho.
Well some use Linux still a headache.
i stopped using skype when
1) the interface began having tons of dead space between text in chat, a feature that seemed copied from facebook messenger, and which i despised there too.
and 2) they stopped keeping logs on the client side beyond like two months or so? drove me into a blind fucking rage when i realised. i used it to hatch ideas to write stories with a friend. the silent discontinuation of permanent logs meant i couldn't rely on those logs for details, which i found out after losing a fair amount of stuff to the void. i uninstalled it within 15 minutes of finding this out and have never used it again (and would never use it again)
2a) they also discontinued skype classic which avoided all of this bullshit
that’s how i used facebook messenger. i remember sneaking downstairs at like 1 am during school nights in middle school & me and my friend would send fanfic chapters back & forth & help each other with improving the writing. it ended up getting entirely deleted & i felt like a huge piece of me was like suddenly just gone. i still wish i could look back on them today
same here tbh. i used to roleplay with my friends over skype chat, and had years worth of writing that was erased as soon as i updated. i had already mostly moved over to discord by that point, and had been keeping the skype app solely to have record of my old threads, but as soon as i realized they were gone, i deleted the app and never went back
Why I stopped using Skype: Microsoft bought it. Ads everywhere, stupid Microsoft accounts, Skype was forced onto my Windows PC and so on. I just started hating it. Then people went to Discord and I followed.
You are getting ads on Skype?
Yep, same for me and my whole friendgroup. I had ~70 friends on skype and 30 whom I was in call regularly so it was really a big deal of communicating for me. With old skype even +7 participant chats were with crystal clear voice for literal half day of people coming and going.
Then Microsoft come along, forced these stupid accounts. It would been okay if not the insane password restrictions, secret answers, phone numbers, email adresses, email verifications and all that crap. Voice chat quality literally came unbearably bad. It sounded like they were transmitting calls through Africa or India or something redicilious. Even low budget Teamspeak servers won in quality, less distortions, less lag, less disconnects and weird voices. That was really the death of Skype for me.
As in 2020, none of my friends ever mention skype, ever. Microsoft really dropped that ball hard with greediness and data collection they forgot to actually serve the customer.
@@bardisaythen4392 I don't know if it's changed but in 2017 (last time I used Skype) there would be a banner ad above/to the side of your Skype chats and video calls. Nothing too intrusive visually until they started personalizing the ads to key words mentioned in your conversations.
Same here, ads everywhere on my Skype, can't close them either they "reopen" themselves. The quality dropped into the tenth level of Hell, it's so bad, choppy, laggy, pixelated no where near HD quality anymore. I too was forced to activate it on my W10 laptop, link it with a MS Outlook email that I hate and LOATHE with a passion, I don't even use Outlook, I use Gmail because it's so much easier to navigate on Gmail. Outlook is just fucking annoying and complicated.
Yeah, but like I don't mind everything is connected to one Microsoft account. I just have 2 e-mails, 1 for everything that has to do with making an account and one for everything dat doesn't. Having everything connected just makes it so much easier for me to navigate through everything.
I started with Skype but as soon as discord came onto the scene it answered any and all issues me and my friends had with Skype. Skype always gave us technical issues and wasn't as efficient in its UI meanwhile discord offered little to no technical difficulties, multiple text and voice channels on a server, and custom emotes that made things feel more personal and fun. Plus Microsoft has a tendency to force their products on their users so I know a lot that refuse to use Skype just cus their computer wouldn't delete the application or kept forcing it onto them when they didn't want to use the service in the first place
same here! discord still has problems but its so much better
Ikr
The very moment I realized Discord existed and learned how it worked, Skype and TeamSpeak were dead to me. Only frustrating thing was waiting for others to realize the same. Today it's pretty good and getting better.
The inability to delete the microsoft integrated Skype app did it for me, it was just so damn annoying and buggy. If I happened to get a call while checking my hotmail on my computer, I'd have my normal Skype ring, the desktop app ring, and the mail tab ring. Oh, also the phone if I forgot to kill the process beforehand. I never figured out how to remove either one of the desktop apps and actually have the other one usable, it either refused to sync with my account or just didn't start. Nevermind the call quality becoming potato.
I think I eventually got rid of the integrated app while trying to purge the stupid microsoft store from my computer. I also accidentally deleted the calculator, so if you try to get rid of the store, you've been warned.
I'm using Ubuntu now and switching over to Windows to play games nowadays. And using Discord for those. I prefer Facebook messenger for calling family because I can launch it either on my computer or phone, or Whatsapp if I'm ok with being on the phone. Secretly wishing people switch over to LINE though. Had to start using Zoom because of the current condition on the ubuntu part and not really enjoying it because of all the security issues but it wasn't something I got to choose.
It's a shame discord focuses on cringy gamer speak that makes it extremely unprofessional. Zoom is garbage but its professional so that's what people (including older family members during quarantine) use to communicate. Discord could have become the biggest voice chat service out there but guess not, ah well that's their mistake kinda difficult to give them advice
2021 kids:
“What’s Skype?”, “I think he means Zoom.” “Yeah you’er right.”
Zoom: the rise, fall, slight rise, fall again. (2022: zoom the rise again and fall)
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God hearing the call music hurt more than I thought it would. Miss those days
It has been 5 years since I switched from skype to discord, that end tone hit me with a rush of nostalgia, I used to get home from 6th grade every day to play Minecraft with my friends on skype.
Dude same (the switch to discord took me too long though)
Same
Bro you dont know how perfectly relatable that last sentence is for me. Everyday i would log onto minecraft, play hunger games or other servers and tell people to add me on skype. Ahh. Miss those days.
Me ttooooo dudeeee
@@smoothred9453 me too
*The Skype experience.*
_Based on true events_
Person 1: Hi can you hear me?
Person 2: what?? Your bre- up
Person 1: what?
*Repeat for the next 10 minutes or so*
omg this is so true.
This is my discord experience
You forgot to mention the fucking with AAAAAAAAAALLLL the audio settings....
This happens on Discord because when you have the “filter out background audio” setting on, it glitches out and cuts out your voice at the end of every sentence
*You're
The service was pretty reliable for me, up until Microsoft bought it. After that I had constant issues with disconnects and messages not going through. It was just such a hassle I switched to another messenger service.
As a PhD student, the only time I use Skype is when I'm talking to my 57 year old supervisor
That's so true. Though the pandemic kicked my adviser from Skype to Zoom.
What a nit you are. Your 57 year old supervisor is smarter than you are, which is why he or she is your supervisor, so have some respect eh?
@@CJBroonie yeah!
@@CJBroonie Doesn’t mean their position as a supervisor has a guaranteed proficiency in technology
@@CJBroonie I am a physicist and have supervised 10+ Master's students. At least half of them were smarter than me. I'm sorry students I hope I could still help you 😭
One big thing you didn't mention is that in 2003 most people were still paying by the minute to talk to people over the phone who lived even in a different city. Young people today don't know that it used to be expensive to call your fried who moved across the country. Skype was one of the first viable solutions to come along that made it possible to keep in touch using more than just text without breaking the bank. It was in the right place at the right time.
Expensive to call. Expensive to get a call. "Text"? Which wasn't called "texting" yet it was called "2 way paging" after the beeper and pager eras respectively ended. 25¢ in 25¢ out. No such thing as MMS until later and when that was implemented oh man 😂😂 did bills shoot up like wildfires
@@mdavid7149 There was texting in 2003
@@nickgavis0305 you're right but I said it wasn't called that. I said before it was called texting it was called 2 way paging
@@mdavid7149 Texting, actually called SMS was an inherent part of the GSM system in the late nineties. The yanks were a bit slow to catch on.
@@iconoclad yes correct but read the comment lol. You're saying truth but not reading what was written. 🤣it's all good though
"More complex yet less reliable" - Me going into adulthood.
Dam
"Last online: 2348 days ago."
;-;
This would have been a really interesting video just a few months later when people switched to online learning and working from home. If the COVID-19 pandemic happened five years ago, Skype would have surely been to go-to for everyone. Instead, it was an afterthought in 2020.
Finally a strong argument that this public health emergency wasn't Bill Gates fault :D
As soon as I heard about that user data scandal I realized why they paid so much, it doesn’t make a profit on paper but that data costs a pretty penny.
So true!
What? I always sex chat in skype lol
Parzival Gripex Bro...
Holy crap, that Skype call sound at the end hit me with a huge nostalgia wave.
Same.
CornerPin Do you not understand English or something??
Chicken nugget 🥔
Not just nostalgia wave... I was just expecting a skype call at this exact time. And I thought that I have it... Doesn't matter. It was still funny.
Haring that ringtone makes me feel like I’m about to play some Minecraft PvP in Minecraft 1.7 Hypixel, nostalgia.
I used to use Skype all the time between 2013-2016, and I was a slow adopter of Discord even when most of my friends went over. But as the service grew less reliable and more friends went to Discord, I finally joined them, and our Skype chat basically died.
Discord came for Gamers, Slack came for coders. For everyone else, Microsoft dropped Skype and focused on Teams.
ms teams suck my school picked it for online class it has a lot of glitches
@@chrizonlozanotventure7466 I think it is not ms teams fault, the problems lie in how competent the companies / organizations managing the application. I'm working in a big software development company in Vietnam and their IT team is pretty well trained, we use MS teams and after 2 years of working and the app working very stable, not much problem happened. Yet my experience with slack in just 4 months was pretty underwhelming and a bit terrible, even though as Akhil said it was made for coders. Guess who was the company made me using slack? It was my customers who was a startup and they have only founded since 1 year ago.
With TH-cam changing their mobile layout (and messing up everything), could you do a video on why companies do these kinds of redesign? Like how Facebook made it intentionally harder to find what you were looking for, making you spend more time on it and giving them more ad revenue. I think that’d be pretty interesting :)
Agreed
What changes happened with TH-cam on mobile?
And what with Facebook? I didn't see any changes.
they also changed a lot of the desktop design, from the 2008 beauty, to the mess that it is today
I think you just did a good job on it!
Probably the same reason stores move things around. They want to intentionally make you do more impulse shopping. With Facebook and TH-cam it could be to direct you to certain features or to see more ads.
When Skype calling sound played at the end, I immediately went to open my "Skype" to see who's calling. But I remembered I do not have Skype installed for a very long time. Those times were good, until Microsoft ruined it.
Same, when I heard the sound, my heart skipped a beat like it used to do every time my PC would make it and I'd run towards it to see how it is.
@@5koKirilov sameee
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Microsoft is actually doing a pretty good job with skype.
Mukundh Bhushan So good barely anyone uses it
Microsoft pretty much killed it themselves when they went away from peer-to-peer connection. Discord came in at the perfect time and I haven't looked back since.
This channel has quickly become one of my go-to channels. Thanks for allllllll the videos!
You missed or may have not known about one thing that Microsoft did when they bought Skype... When Ebay owned Skype you could log in with a Facebook account, without any warning Microsoft deleted all those accounts that used FB and everyone lost all their contacts, photos, messages ... everything... I know this because I was a FB user and I lost everything. I didn't even know MS had bought it, I had to start again with an MS account and could never get my old information back. This I thought was disgraceful
I feel u man. Losing memories is the worst thing that any company could have ever done.
I logged on using a old laptop and it was still logged in using my Facebook account.... but no one replied to my messages cause everyone moved on and thus I removed the account.
Skype is an info farming app. Nothing you say or do with it is really private in any way. I used it on overseas trips and was shocked to learn my employer was able to have an audio file copy of everything I communicated with my family back home with it. When I pursued a remedy and explanation for this invasion of privacy, in my research I found numerous anecdotal claims that Skype was a British Deep State developed platform no matter what company owns its public license. No matter if the bad actors are public or private. Skype is not safe or secure in my estimation. I won't use it.
That is the exact problem i had with them after Microsoft. I can not remember if i was using Facebook to log in, but my login was canceled, lost all contacts and everything else. I still have my Skype Microsoft account but no contacts in there and never actually use it now.
If I recall, prior to 2013 skype stored message data using a temp file located inside appdata somewhere. If you changed physical computer you lost message data, although not contacts and this was after microsoft bought it. Not sure about before 2011.
Me and my dad would skype almost everyday until he died last year. So skype has a special place in my heart.
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May his soul RIP,,🙏
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Growing up I used skype for about 2-4 years playing with my bestfriend online although skype started to become slow and lower quality so we moved to discord around 2013 and also used teamspeak, greatest change of my life.
I think I stopped using skype actively in 2016-2017, then completely switched to discord in 2018. Hardly used skype ever since.
I remember creating a skype account when I was 6 with a random email and the old interface, good memories
I used to be a very heavy Skype user. Using it with my friends for hours a day. This was before the Microsoft redesign. In fact, back when the update was available, my friends and I didn't even update it until the version we were using was unsupported and it just kind of made us update. Then we moved to Discord and were amazed by it. It solved all of our problems with Skype. Discord vastly improved our audio quality and even ran better on our PCs. All around, Discord is the way to go nowadays.
discord also uses 80-90% of my cpu constantly for no reason at all. i still use teamspeak lol
@@bananya6020 dam now that would be interesting to debug.
Xfire was what I use after Skype became a RAM hog. Teamspeak was okay but it didn't have the features I wanted. Discord did the trick.
And then my school uses Google Meets.
@@dianaloayzat4975 and if we know anything about google, they'll probably cancel it in a couple years.
Simple answer: Microsoft ruined Skype. Which is the exact outcome that everyone knew would happen the moment they acquired Skype. Ever since then it's been a slow death.
Tbh Microsoft sucks they even ruined minecraft (my opp don't get mad at me)
Agree, they took the fun out of it.
@Grace L 1.13+ are all modpacks, 1.8-1.12 are all plugins.
Skype 8 specifically was the nail in the coffin. Turned it into a bloated electron mobile app that was at best 50% functioning correctly & an absolutely horrid mess to navigate. I hate all the infantalized stuff on Discord, but the program functions well at least. What will Microsoft destroy next?
@Grace L so your going to curse out your friends just for enjoying minecraft nowadays? Kinda hypocritical
Thank you for making all of your well done, interesting, and informative videos. I really appreciate your channel and work. Your videos have helped occupy my mind through very trying times.
oh man hearing that ringtone sound at the end was a major throwback i haven't heard that sound in years !!
Skype: The application without a close option that would always pop up whenever I started my pc😂
Mike Halve That fact alone made me dislike Skype. Forcing a product on people will make some of them dislike the product. Same thing happened with that free U2 album.
Omg I used to hate that 😂
You download the desktop app and Windows sends a thousand notifications trying to get you to download the Microsoft Store mobile app.
On top of that, it is very vulnerable to bot spam because you can text and call people on a web browser with a temporary guest account.
you can disable that by going into task manager, start up, and un selecting skype thats basic knowledge
Mike Halve my god...this is so true and it would drive me nuts every time I turned my CPU on.
Skype was doomed the day Microsoft acquired it. They took an easy-to-use piece of software and turned it into something that doesn’t make any sense at all. The interface is a nightmare. What a shame!
well... if they left the interface alone, I think it might have been fine. i know that a lot of users left skype after the changes happen
@@MadManX668 @Raed Bilbessi
could anyone explain what the problem is with the interface change
@@kankantona9070 same
@@kankantona9070 They completely restyled it into the flat/tiled Win8/Win10 design, split commonly used features up in tabs, added advertisements and "recommendations" and removed some features that people were used to have. And even though it looked far simpler, they managed to increase its memory and CPU usage by 4-5 times. Some versions were more or less only usable if you had nothing else running on your PC. Using it while gaming became really awful, which made all those users who used it for guild chat in MMOs etc jump off to Teamspeak/Mumble/etc and later Discord.
they prob just wanted skype to get MORE DATA on the consumers
I met my wife on MSN, i cried when I saw the logo... always will have a special place in my heart.
I weirdly still use Skype quite often, but only with my German friends. It seems like it’s still somewhat popular there. To be honest, it works really well for a basic one-on-one video chat service - the video/audio is clear, there’s no time limit, the chat remains after the call ends, and you don’t need to be connected through other social media sites to make it work. I much prefer Zoom or Teams for work meetings, though, as they have many more tools.
Just the other day, when I was hanging with friends on Zoom, I asked them whatever the hell happened to Skype. Thanks for the video.
OhtheSuffering Skype still works
I still like google hangouts the best
Don't use zoom, it's not secure. Your info gets sold
@@Lifeissorich. Me too. It's sad not many ppl use it tho.
OhtheSuffering use discord! Zoom sells your info!
it died for me when they changed the interface to look like a knock off facebook messenger and tried to make it a social media site of sorts - i think this was in 2016/17? itd been a mess for a while but this made the service unusable for our large group chat and we moved over to discord. have never regretted it! i used it from about 2011 until whenever that interface change was.
I find the connection quality for video calling on Discord is worse than other services, such as Duo, Skype or FB messenger.
You got me. I actually reached for my phone when I heard the Skype call sound at the end.
Thanks for ending it with the ring tone, nice touch 😁
When you played the Skype sound bite of the old call tone... I felt it.
No, I'm serious. I just realized how I accidentally operant-conditioned myself. I associated that sound with calls from people I really held dear.or missed. So when I heard it after years of not hearing it, it made my heart flutter a bit.
I definitely felt it too. I don’t even remember who I used to chat with but I know they aren’t a part of my life anymore.
RazielSchnitzel I liked the sound too. I perked up!
I smiled when I heard it.
My deceased Grandpa (2017) used to call me all the time. I feel that feel. What's worse is that his account is still there
Skype? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
For about a decade. This video is about a decade too late.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and we use Skype daily. Primarily, we use it for instant messaging, but we also use it for conference calls. My wife works for a smaller company that also utilizes Skype daily.
I'm not saying it is any better than the alternatives, but it is still relevant in the business world.
on italki people often use skype to speak with language tutors
@@bgeno4877 Same. Skype is still used to IM anyone instantly for business communication purposes
Skype for Business still used in many businesses tbh, way back it was Lync. Only recently companies are moving toward MS Teams
I never used Skype, but I watched over a guy's shoulder as he Skype'd with his Russian bride, who lived WAY OUT in southern Russia by Lake Baikal. He met her online and then flew to Russia and they got married. Wow what a romantic story right? Thank God for for Skype because someone found true love in Russia!!!
That Skype call sound effect at the end made me instinctively check the top of my screen to see who was calling. Skype is forever ingrained in my psyche.
I’m surprised Zoom wasn’t mentioned in this, given its popularity lately
zoom wasn't really the biggest competitor to skype considering they just specialize in online meetings. I'd say it's more of a competitor to microsoft teams or skype business, hangouts (google meet) etc.
Seems like everyone is using it now
I didn't hear about it untell teachers telling us to use it for kids, and I'm like what happen to skype?
ninjatears
my teacher said that skype doesn't work very well for more than a couple of people, and zoom is meant for meetings, which is perfect for classrooms
I didn't even know it existed until the pandemic started.
the only rise and fall in Skype was my wifi connection, mostly a fall.
But something else rised eh eh
I'll see myself out
For me skype died the moment they added Ads with sound that would play randomly while using the PC. There was a neat trick with adding microsoft's ad-server to your hosts file in order to block the ads, but many people just uninstalled.
On top of that this happened around the same time my gaming group grew too large to fit into a Skype conference, so we were forced to switch to TeamSpeak. This was long before Discord. At least for me it took several years afterwards before I first heard about Discord.
So much nostalgia in one video
Discord just has the communities that Skype doesn’t have.
You mean Zoom right?
Same i was about to comment this until i saw this!
@@paponthedrip7033 zoom barely has community functions....
@@paponthedrip7033 What Zoom? also poor choice of name. Is it a website an app anything related to a messaging service or is it something that is used in the Olympics.
@@Jossarianz as if more than 200,000 school use Zoom to keep classrooms
Able to communicate
It’s crazy that Skype was already positioned so well to take off with everyone telecommuting due to the rona, and they just... didn’t.
Skype is more in use than you think. Most larger corporations use Skype and have for a long time. I work for a multi-billion dollar company that does business all over the world and we no longer have desk phones. Our voicemail and phone service are all Skype now.
Power of the chinese my friend
Company Man: "The industry of online communication has exploded, and Skype was the first big name associated with it. I don't think I'll ever separate the two in my mind."
Zoom: hello
This got me interested in Skype again. I used it a lot about 15 years ago. Recently, someone suggested doing a Skype video call. We didn't, I wasn't set up. But now I have looked at it again on both my PC and my, ta ta, Windows Phone. Company Man mentioned complexity. Holy 4D Matrix, Batman! I have spent 15 minutes poking around and can't find out what my ID is, or how to make a call!
Back when I used Skype, one could make up a user name. Now, I see no option like that. I was assigned a telephone number out of OK.
It's pretty bad when someone who has been deeply into computers since 1988 can't figure out the most basic setup.
The rise: dont want to buy a teamspeak just to talk to friends. The fall: the second discord comes out
But for business--
Zoom: *enters chat
@@Rocksteady72a zoom is so trash, microsoft teams is much better
@@Ghostxx Straight facts. It reminds me of how Google Drive became the norm despite Onedrive being more reliable and efficient.
You can host a TS3 server yourself. It’s not hard.
@@ZekeGraal but why do that if you can use discord instead
"More complex yet less reliable" - Microsoft in a nutshell.
I was going to say the same god damn thing word for word
I can't imagine anything more true than that fkn statement
Exactly
Compared to which other operating system or computer company?
Apple is much much worse. "Simple yet less reliable and less customizable.
@@nightshades7921 Talking about Microsoft, not Windows
I will say, as someone who actively used both Skype(I actually fought to stay on it for a long time when my friends abandoned ship) and windows messenger for a long time, the severe reduction of usability (while increasing the intrusivity) of Skype, while shutting down windows messenger without integrating the customizability of it into Skype, was really a misplay. They actively made a lot of things worse to the point that I do not know anyone that actually uses it. Honestly more practical to switch to discord for all its flaws
God dang it, i was not paying attention at the end of the video and the skype ring tone startled me
*Earth: the rise and fall*
Include corona virus in there somewhere
Milky Way: The rise & fall
Earth isn’t a company silly
@@Velvet_Crowe no?
erection : the rise and fall
Why am I watching a girl make cupcakes while someone is talking about skype?
Noah Moussaoui most underrated comment
😂😂
Because that footage wasn’t copyrighted😂
He was talking about free samples, kind of hard to create a visual metaphor for Microsoft giving you a free copy of Skype unless you want to use some shitty screen cap.
I'm not sure if this is a joke, but if it isn't, you're completely missing the point of the OP's comment
Thanks for the video about the market and rise and fall of Skype!
The Skype sound at the end brought me back man
They totaly forgot about that part, when Skype started shoving and rubbing Advertisements into your face, even tried to push video ads into your video calls, constantly giving you popups to buy Skype money to do awesome premium features like call in and out.
Also the time when group video-calls where behind a pay-wall. Then made the service not work at all when you blocked the adds.
The part where plenty of virus protection softwares would explode in rage because some of the adds on skype where carrying viruses and trojans was super fun.
We used to have Skype Groups for games and stuff untill "Hey! We changed some stuff! Guess what, your awesome group... yeah, it does not work anymore, make a mew one or bust"
Remember when Skype was suddenly an existencial part of Windows and you could NOT uninstall it while even if you did not use it, it would use up hundred of megabyts of Ram?
Or that awesome time when "You must update skype, OR ELSE.....!"
Everybody but ONE friend moved away from Skype and nowadays when I try to talk to that friend I always get super annoyed by the fact that you HAVE to click onto the text-bar. if you click a little to far up or down or just onto the software - NOPE! No text input for you!
So yeah, I own some great times to Skype, but it feels like some good old buddy who started hanging out with the wrong friends, started drinking and smoking, tried the wrong drugs, murderd some people for cash, flet in a bloody chase with some prostitutes, murderd the prostitutes and stole a helicopter just to crashland it in a buissnes building in a cocain coma........ yeah, we all have that old buddy...^^;
WTF
This is too accurate its scary
Discord uses less system resources, When all you have is an old dell and want to play Minecraft with friends at 15 FPS, it maters.
But in Minecraft Hunger Games, If you wanted to team up with someone, Not needing to add them as a friend before calling made the whole exchange a lot faster, That's probably the only thing I miss. Not that I play much Minecraft anymore.
Don't play at 15fps allocate more Ram
@@sanmedina I agree, discord way over-complicated what should have been a very simple service.
the skype sound at the end got me
I was a skype user, thats why I'm here, to see how it died. Miss u old man.. I mean.. old skype... I hope you come back come one day with all my friends
Discord ate up skype and pooped out Microsoft teams.
I like Microsoft Teams
All of the corpfucks are using Zoom now. It's completely awful.
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yea, the business side of Skype is still going strong. From Lync to skype for business, and now teams. The regular skype, however, is so laden with spam that it quit being useful ages ago...
@@kron520 companies like google are banning employees from using zoom, not to mention entire cities like NY are banning zoom from school use
The Skype ring at the end gave me anxiety.
I live in Virginia and have been a Skype user for about 10 years now and have on a daily basis, 7 days a week stay on the line with my better half in England and besides the little glitches you brought up I still think its an amazing service. As a Paranormal Investigator I have helped investigate some awesome places in England and caught some great evidence, and she has investigated quite a few places with me over here.
I don't have a cell phone for various reasons and use Skype instead on my iPad. It costs $60 dollars a year and I have my own phone number similar to having a cell phone. Much less expensive and has all the features of a cell phone service. I have been using Skype in this way since 2012. Thank you for this presentation!
Peak skype years? like 2009-2015
Then Discord came out and everyone moved over slowly starting in 2016.
You forgot about teamspeak. Those are a bit different services. Skype has been mostly for a formal setting. Teamspeak and discord for gaming.
orang3kush yeah id spend hours talking to my hs gf on skype in the early 2010s lmao
@@roshill2010 Teamspeak also for scamming.
Only used Discord for gaming and sharing of Only Fans content lol
King's React Gaming lmao do you even know what you are talking about?
Skype Sound lyrics: do do do wep wop doo do do wep woop do do do wep wop doo do do wep woop
LMAO BYE😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀💀
Musical masterpiece
Nice 😆
I’ve never being at a loss for words
Microsoft teams uses that dial tone too
I havent used skype in like 8 years but my god the call sound at the end got me
Loved Skype in the mid 2000s could talk to my mom in the USA, I am in South Africa, she got to SEE her grandchildren . But it’s now WhatsApp all the way, I use for business as well just way more easy. Love your shows!,,
Skype was a massive deal for me up until 2015 when Discord took over.
Wesley, I like discord a lot since it’s very convenient, but I still use Skype since discord’s vc kinda shit
@@sup8668 shit? I think discord is better than Skype in any situations
Discord is good but it's aiming for gaming. I don't like that, i think discord should make a lighter designed, more convenient interface for daily use.
Diefall Ring, I mean their voice chat, but everything else is good. Personally a lot of times discord cuts off during times and you can’t hear everything they say. But I like the platform in general it’s pretty fun with bots that allow entertainment.
@@sup8668 the cutting off may be due to the threshold that can be changed in the settings for the minimal amount of sound that can come from the mic before its picked up in the voice channel
Damn we went from MSN to Skype to Discord. Not gonna lie, I love Discord more than Skype but MSN will always have a place in my heart
I used both MSN Messenger and Skype, Skype was only for video calls whereas MSN Messenger was for everything else.
My thoughts exactly. I have so many fonds memories of MSN
And now zoom destroyed them all
@@brennanjames1632 Them all?
I remember literally 10 whole years ago when I would be on Skype for hours and hours like all night.. I think the last time I used it was in 2016 when I was away on business? Jesus
You nailed it: "More complex, but less reliable."
Skype is like the Facebook of video calls. Good memories, loved it when I was in middle school but we've moved on
Loved it in high school and middle, but yeah.
Kate Cruz I use it at work and it works great, they’ve changed. Company Man is just showing it from the outside in.
Now I feel old. I loved it in college. It didn’t exist when I was in middle school.
@@Bowoneshi The internet barely existed when you and I were in middle School.
Your opinion didn't matter then and it doesn't matter now.
I can answer this is two seconds: Discord came out, appealed to gamers and did everything better than Skype almost immediately. So, most people started jumping ship, especially since there's been talk that Skype used to leak your IP address.
That took me about 10 seconds to read it smh liar
@@cheeselord8153 I mean all you really needed was the first sentence, the rest was just me explaining further. lol
Gamers are a very small portion of the market.
@@ryanpmcguire If you think that, then you're certainly mistaken.
Ryan McGuire you would not believe how much we use video chat kind of stuff plus you don’t have to be gamer to use discord
Could you do one about limewire and Xfire, that stuff from them olden days ?
Love the vids easy on the soul and goes well with coffee.
I never knew anyone who used Xfire
2015-16 was my peak for skype, I soon begrudgingly swapped over to discord and have been using it sense :’)
I hear people saying “FaceTime me” more than I hear “Skype me” these days.
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Yeah and it's unfair for everyone because it's only made for iPhone Apple products.
Kent Yang most people in the US have iPhones so yes it makes more sense at least in the US
@@laurelkuyon2556 it's a shame but it's true
If Apple doesn't open up FaceTime to be a multi-platform video chat solution, people should be looking to multi-platform video chat solutions instead. But for those that have iPhones, it's convenient for them to just use FaceTime, since it comes preinstalled. But Android users that want to video chat have to ask them to download a different video chat application that's compatible with each other. Facebook, a lot of people still have, and also install the Messenger app. Messenger can video chat, and works on all common platforms.
Like, i used skype A LOT in the past but like almost instantly when discord came, quite literally every single person in the gaming scene switched over to it, it was basically better in every single way. discord had been looking at what the gaming part of sky disliked and then just took all those things and gave us them in a single app. like skype today has no chance at ever even getting remotely into the gaming part again but i sure will miss those days when you played early roblox while talking on skype lol
small edit: fixed some errors since i typed this at 4am lol, should be better now
Axtrectius literally literally literally literally
:/
That’s a lot of literallys
Ah sentences that involve absolutes followed by analogies.
It's a classic Microsoft move, which they also did with Internet Explorer. "We made the thing, it works, nobody could ever want anything better, no need to improve anything." And then comes along a competitor that is just better in every way and people want to switch ASAP.
discord was kinda a skype killer.
I just logged in to Skype because of this video. I used to Skype back in 2012 when I played Minecraft with my friends.
I used to be on Skype all the time during my Runescape days, the memories....
“I GOTTA HAVE THEIR DATA”
>kills Skype
>surprise Microsoft face
Simple reason: Discord became a thing.
...
and FaceTime there was to many good standalone apps and they decided to not evolve
You're forgetting about teamspeak. Was popular for years before discord.
Most people I know don’t have discord. They use face time though.
And facetime, and google hangouts and basically it diversified with skype not really changing
That ending Skype tone messed me UP. I was like who is calling omg? 😂
Man, yeah, I used to have a lot of long distant friends, and girlfriends, at the time, and the revolution of skype paired with the webcams common on laptops made it possible to feel like you were really sitting and talking with a person so far away. Nowadays I don't have a webcam and neither do any of my friends as far as I know, and holding up a phone just doesn't feel as good as being able to sit with an open view of the person your speaking with. I might invest in a webcam if I really feel like having another long distance friend, but until then I'm happy with at least being able to hear the voices of my closest friends while just playing video games
This pandemic hurt Skype on multiple fronts. Bottom line: Zoom - an app I had never heard of - dropped their fees and let everyone do video conferences for free, due to the pandemic.
School teachers got set up and do entire classes using Zoom. You can sign up for other courses taught over Zoom. Corporations are using Zoom as well as you can share your screen and do a powerpoint presentation over Zoom with lots of people in attendance.
I had never heard of Zoom 6 weeks ago - and now someone is on a Zoom call about half the given time in our house (8am-5pm) with 2 working parents and a child in school (during pandemic, schools closed, Zoom meetings with teacher, music teacher, band, chorus, theater, even sports coach!).
Now everyone knows Zoom - and having used it for the last month for free, more people would probably sign up to pay to use it - at least businesses and schools.
Think Skype was well fucked well before this Pandemic bro.
I haven't used it since 2013.
I'm kind of homeschooled. High school student here and I've been doing this international college prep program. Catholic school. They do something called adobe connect which has some interesting functionality but is extremely clunky. It shows its age as a nearly 2 decade old program. This year they began the switch over to zoom. Not a full switch but more of just a test. It lacks a built in whiteboard and the ability to make polls, but it seems to work a lot better. using it since late august. Pretty cool stuff. cool how it's taking off too
Also, from the point of a student Skype you have to: create an account, activate the account via email, download the app, add the teacher to the contact book, have the teacher accept you, then have the teacher add you to a group, then join that group call. With Zoom you click on a link your teacher gave you and you're in.
Worst of all, my school gives all of us free office. Including Skype for business. But we instead use zoom
Papyrus which is a insecured...
I was grateful for skype when I lived outside of the country. It was so nice at a time when there weren't that many other options for face to face calls.
It 100% blows my mind, that MSN Messenger is 1000s of times better to use as a consumer than Skype EVER was.
OMG THAT SKYPE CALL SOUND AT THE END THO
i kinda miss it xD
When I heard the Skype call sound at the end I honestly thought I was getting a call, but then I realized I haven’t used Skype in many years.
I remember using Skype back in high school to play minecraft with my girlfriend at the time and her friends. Good times. Discord is so much better for a gamer, but I miss Skype
I feel discord is better just in general, it's also better for roleplaying communities, that's what I use Discord for half of the time. The server system is perfect for roleplay groups.
Discord calls glitch so easily though, especially the audio. Although I’ve never used Skype
@@bakermakingbreadSame with screensharing
For voice only, I'd recommend TeamSpeak. But none of my friends wants to move over, so i have to stay with discord. Guess discord is more convenient and user-friendly than TeamSpeak
@@bakermakingbread Skype isn't much better in that regard, especially not in a call with 4 or more people.
From 2010-2018 Skype was a major part of my life, my teen years were spent chatting with my friends almost daily. I still remember when Discord was this new thing and my friends were starting to mirgate to it, and I remember saying how I didn't want to get discord because I was happy with Skype. However as the years went on more and more of my friends moved to Discord and I eventually bit the bullet and got an account, but still chatted with my friends over Skype. However when Telegram came along and introduced stickers, that immediatly killed the remaining reasons to stay with Skype and by 2019 everyone I had known who used it abandoned the platform for Discord or Telegram.
Literally everyone I talked to regularly was on MSN/Windows Live Messenger back in the day. By the time Skype came along everyone moved to Facebook. Partly because of Skype's clunky interface, lack of customization and constant ui changes. This could very well have led to Facebook and WhatsApp gaining significant ground in my country.