A service founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Froiis introduced a decade ago, an innovative concept: calls between computers stopped being just voice and could also be done with video. The Skype bought by Microsoft in 2011, is now ten years.
Ten years ago, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Froiis had a service that would revolutionize the conversations conducted via computer: Skype video gathered to voice. The program became the best known and unloaded to make video calls and has grown so much that caught the attention of the ‘big’: in 2011, the company owns Skype was bought by Microsoft.
“In just ten short years, Skype has changed human relations around the world, helping people to do things together whenever they’re apart,” said the company, through a spokesman.
In the first three months of existence, Skype served about 1.5 million users. Now has over 300 million active users per month, it is not unconnected with the fact that it is distributed in more than 27 languages.
figures revealed today show the success of the program. In ten years, video calls made took 1.4 trillion minutes. If they were only two users would have to talk to 2.6 million years.
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