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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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kesor ◴[12 Oct 25 08:46 UTC] No.45556532[source]▶
Skype ; Because my R.I.P. grandma was using it to talk to her relatives overseas just like she would use a phone, but it didn't cost an arm and a leg (unlike phone calls).
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silcoon ◴[12 Oct 25 10:14 UTC] No.45556996[source]▶
One of the best P2P software at the time. It was so simple and effective and allowed people to call real phones with Skype credit.

A genius product ripped my Microsoft. Have you used Microsoft Teams recently? Bad UI, hard to configure external hardware and good level of incompatibility, missing the good old "Echo / Sound Test Service". At a point I even installed Skype of my old Android but was sucking up too much battery.

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1. hulitu ◴[16 Oct 25 16:13 UTC] No.45607232[source]▶
> One of the best P2P software at the time.

and, after it was bought by Microsoft, the best spyware at the time. When it was running, the harddrive LED will be always on, just like network activity.