The first public beta offering of Skype software was released in August 2003, and led quickly to updated versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and even the Sony PlayStation portable gameĭevice. What’s not widely known is that that these two guys also co-founded Kazaa, the first music sharing site – and much of the Skype code was based on this. Originally called Skyper, it was later shortened to Skype when it was discovered that Skyper wasn’t available with all Internet domains. Skype was created in 2003 at a company founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. I bet they were the first Skype phones ever in this country. When we finally found it I think we bought three each and flew them back safely to Canada. I was blown away and remember quite clearly scouring the land of windmills and wooden shoes with one of my senior executives for the Dutch equivalent of Best Buy. Rob Whent, enterpreneur in residence, WEtech Alliance Artificial Intelligence (259) Auto Tech (7) Blockchain (62) CanadianCIO (17) Careers & Education (604) Channel (59) Cloud (1068) Communications & Telecom (78) Companies (87) Data & Analytics (173) Development (27) Digital Transformation (761) Distribution (10) Diversity & Inclusion (28) eCommerce (135) Emerging Tech (42) End User Hardware (65) Engineering (1286) Financial (792) Fintech (96) Future of Work (24) Governance (17) Government & Public Sector (113) Human Resources (2077) Infrastructure (32) IoT (109) ITWC Morning Briefing (9) Leadership (2681) Legal (306) Legislation (99) Managed Services & Outsourcing (46) Marketing (1957) MarTech (6) Medical (339) Mobility (4994) Not For Profit (6) Open Source (139) Operations (5425) People (15) Podcasts (1349) Posts (4124) Privacy (774) Project Management (76) Security (2983) Service (892) Smart Home (49) smart-home (1) SMB (492) Social Networks (420) Software (78) Supply Chain (23) Sustainability (22) Tech in Sports (247) Technology (7112) Women in Tech (75)

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