Skype will be closed down in May 2025, but it really died in 2011 when it was bought by Microsoft. It’s just been a death by a thousand slow-motion cuts.
How we used to live. This is Skype on the Mac back in prehistory
You didn’t know Skype was still a thing, and in a few weeks’ time, it won’t be. Once a revolutionary app that brought free voice calls over the internet, it was important enough and valuable enough that in 2006, eBay bought it for $2.6 billion.
If it seems peculiar that eBay would be the one that bought it, give the auction site some credit — it flipped the service and sold Skype on in 2011 for a huge profit. Five years is a long time to have it on “Buy it Now,” but Microsoft eventually snapped it up for $8.5 billion.