how I only ever heard about Zoom through podcast ads before the beginning of the year, and it's become a genericized trademark for any video chat by now

A decade ago it would've been Skype. How badly did Microsoft fuck that up?

  • LargeAdultSon [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    We also used hangouts a bunch pre-covid when my supervisor was on sabbatical overseas. And we used it because Skype was an unreliable, useless hassle in comparison. So the writing was already on the wall then.