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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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FaceTime
FaceTime was introduced by Apple in 2010 alongside the launch of the iPhone 4, which was the first iPhone to include a front-facing camera specifically enabling the video calling feature, and it became one of the earliest mainstream mobile-native video calling applications. The service comes pre-installed on every Apple device, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers, giving it guaranteed built-in distribution across Apple's entire device ecosystem without requiring a separate app download, a significant advantage among Apple's own user base specifically. Apple later expanded FaceTime with a web-based link-sharing feature in 2021, allowing non-Apple device users on Android and Windows to join FaceTime calls through a browser for the first time, a notable shift from the platform's original Apple-exclusive design. FaceTime's combination of its historic role introducing mainstream mobile video calling alongside the original front-camera iPhone 4 and its guaranteed pre-installed presence across every Apple device has made it one of the most widely used video calling tools among consumers.
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