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Google Meet
Google Meet launched in its current form in 2017 as "Hangouts Meet," an enterprise-focused successor built from Google's earlier Hangouts video chat product, before Google rebranded it simply as Google Meet in 2020 and significantly expanded free access amid surging pandemic-era demand. The platform benefits from tight integration with Google Workspace, letting users launch video meetings directly from Google Calendar invites and Gmail with minimal setup, an integration advantage particularly valuable for schools and businesses already using Google's broader productivity suite. Google made Meet's premium features temporarily free to all users during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a move specifically aimed at competing directly against Zoom's rapidly growing user base during that critical period of remote work and remote schooling adoption. Google Meet's combination of its deep Google Workspace calendar and email integration and its pandemic-era free access expansion has made it one of the most widely adopted video conferencing tools in both education and business settings.
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Skype
Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the same entrepreneurs behind the earlier peer-to-peer file-sharing service Kazaa, and it became one of the first widely popular consumer applications offering free voice and video calls over the internet. Skype's early peer-to-peer technology architecture, routing call data directly between users' computers rather than through centralized company servers, was a genuinely novel approach at the time that helped the service scale efficiently to millions of simultaneous users worldwide. Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion, one of Microsoft's largest acquisitions at the time, and the company eventually shifted focus toward its newer Teams product for both business and consumer video calling, officially retiring the original Skype consumer app in 2025. Skype's combination of its pioneering peer-to-peer internet calling technology and its historic role as one of the first mainstream consumer video calling applications has made it one of the most foundational products in the history of internet communication.
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