Microsoft shut down Skype, the internet-based phone and video call service, on Monday, 14 years after the tech company bought it for $8.5 billion. Microsoft announced in February that Skype users could opt into integrating their accounts with Microsoft Teams for free or export all of their data from Skype ahead of the shutdown.

But now, it’s official. Skype is shutting down, with Microsoft pulling the plug on the app that once defined internet calling. Sure, Skype may not have aged gracefully in a world powered by Zoom, WhatsApp, and FaceTime, but it definitely paved the way for all of them!

A once popular video-calling platform, Skype, is set to shut down on May 5. It brings an end to a 22-year period where it connected people across the world. One of the pioneers of internet communication,