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Microsoft has announced that it would close Skype, once the dominant video call service in May this year.

To its peak, the service Bossé more than 300 million users, but this number fell to more than 36 million users, according to the most recent figures shared by Microsoft in 2023.

The American technology giant, which bought Skype for $ 8.5 billion in 2011, will transfer some of its services to Microsoft teams, its flagship videoconferencing and team applications. Skype users will be able to use their existing accounts to connect to the teams.

Baths with MP3 disks and readers, Sky News looks at other software and hardware that were once omnipresent but which are now obsolete.

Stupid phones

Smartphones have replaced old -fashioned mobile phones, which were much more limited in features.

They could only do and receive calls and SMS, although some could play games like Snake.

The devices have seen a resurgence of people wishing to limit their use of their mobile phone.

Blackberries

Blackberries has revolutionized the strike on mobile phones by including a complete keyboard. They have been widely used for corporate communication, including messaging and messaging services.

But they were made obsolete by smartphones that transformed the physical keyboard on the touch screen.

Establish

The first telephone call was made in 1876 and the device followed various iterations over the years.

Once banal in houses and offices, the cable fixed line saw its use decrease in the middle of the climb of mobile phones.

Floppy

Although the data is stored on floppy disks, it was then replaced by CD-ROMs and which now live as the backup icon for most software.

They have become smaller and smaller since their appearance in the 1970s.

However, they were vulnerable to magnets and heat, which could damage their data.

VHS

VHS cassettes have become the standard way to watch movies at home in the late 1980s.

They had to be rewinded at the end of each film, which could take time.

The release of DVD began the slow drop in VHS and finally replaced it.

Cassettes

The cassettes were the main way that people could listen to and record music from the 1960s.

They were also used to store data for the first domestic computers.

But in the 90s, they were sold by CDs, which then killed them.

CDS and DVD

CDs and DVDs in turn follow VH and cassettes to become obsolete in an online streaming world.

The convenience and accessibility of streaming services have led the transition to digital media, and people often pay for subscription services rather than albums or individual films.

Walkman and MP3 readers

Portable music players like The Walkman and MP3 players have also become victims of the rise of the smartphone.

Smartphones with integrated musical applications and streaming services made mainly redundant separate music players.

Carriers

TeleAvertens have informed people that someone was trying to contact them, but they should go to a fixed line or a telephone booth to remind them.

Mobile phones have offered instant communication, making the sacred obsolete.

Smartphones have also revolutionized communication by offering video calls and internet access for instant messaging.

Fax

Faxes in the offices have been used to send and receive documents, in particular those that require signatures.

They could also be used to send confidential information safely on telephone lines.

But they were replaced by e-mails and instant messaging services.

Air projectors

Schools and offices have used air projectors to project documents on a screen so that everyone can see it.

Teachers and professionals could use them to display annotated notes and diagrams.

They were made obsolete by modern projectors and computers.