What is Skype?
Written by Scott on Sunday, August 5th, 2007
We recently moved to Leland NC and our cell phones don’t work inside our new home. Sometimes they work on a good day if we stand in our drive way and hold our tongue just right and stand on one foot and face West and there is no wind.
Our contract with Sprint won’t be up until Feb so we are bummed about speaking to relatives and such from our house.
However, my brother in law found out about Skype and told us about it. We immediately set it up and we were video chatting within minutes.
Skype allows you to talk for free over the internet as long as both parties are using Skype. Since we both have laptops with built in cams, my wife and I were video chatting with her brother in Raleigh in no time. Besides some minor internet chatter, the audio and video were great even though he’s on an HP and I was on a Mac Book Pro.