Why Did We Forsake Skype to Join the Kingdom of ZOOM?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 27, 2021 8:04am CST
Don't you remember when 'Skype' was a verb, like "Google" (which I STILL understand as 'search the web,' even though I use Microsoft Bing or Ecosia)?
Why didn't "Skyping" become the de facto-method of video-chat?
My guess is that it's FREE ... but I don't use it much anyway (except for a TBI-survivors' support-group I go to using my roommate's laptop).
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/skype-coronavirus-pandemic
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@RebeccasFarm (90474)
• Arvada, Colorado
28 Mar 21
You know I was wondering that too. I refuse to assimilate though.
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
28 Mar 21
Yeah, but it gets kind of annoying when people send you 'a link to something that your machine can't read.'
I have a flip-phone, with very little space on it and no broadband connection (other than text-messaging). People send me links to 'their video-files' or something, and I JUST CAN'T OPEN `EM!
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
28 Mar 21
@RebeccasFarm Not even at a yard-sale ... or on eBay?
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@RebeccasFarm (90474)
• Arvada, Colorado
28 Mar 21
@mythociate I wish I did not have this phone that I Have..I want a plain flip phone..not to be had anymore in these parts.
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@BarBaraPrz (47676)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
27 Mar 21
And why did VHS become the norm when Betamax was (supposedly) better?
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
27 Mar 21
or COMMODORE64 when ATARI 130XE was 'just fine' 
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@BarBaraPrz (47676)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
27 Mar 21
@mythociate Right! And why do we have to constantly update stuff?
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@aureategloom (10988)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
28 Mar 21
hmm how many people can join skype video call? maybe because of that.
this photo explains why i never liked skype 
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
28 Mar 21
Maybe it's more difficult to add people into it; but 'a picture I saw when I was looking for the one I posted' said you could add FIVE-HUNDRED people to a Skype-call!
