Skype

I've been skyped....

I've heard of this skype thing for a long time, but without the "need" I haven't ever signed up.  With someone finally requesting to chat with me, and a great way to talk to Mary-Beth who just headed way way up north, I signed up.  We've had a good time chatting via video chat.  It really is a great free technology. 

The video chat takes me about 7 years back when I first did video chat with my parents from England.  At that time, there was no Skype, and MSN video chat was the video chat method of choice.  The camera was a specially built separate entity that sat somewhere in the room where I could get enough light to make me visible.  I was connected via dial-up Internet with a VERY slow connection.  Needless to say it did the job, I got to see my parents and they got to see me, but it is nothing like is present now. 

  I can only imagine the ability to chat internationally now...heck my video chats now are coming from a camera built into the laptop and we're chatting over 6000 miles away from each other.  The speed is pretty good and other than a few "freezing" moments every now an then, it's almost like Mary-Beth is in the room.  Heck, I could even video chat on my cell phone if I really wanted to....oh the technology. 

  Skype...oh how long a way we've come....thank you for free services!

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