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Skype Minutes Tallied
February 22, 2008

On their company blog, Skype noted today that their users have placed 100 billion minutes worth of free Skype-to-Skype calls thus far.

 

Then there’s this:

 

To put this into further perspective, Skype has only been in business for about 4.5 years (approximately 2,365,200 minutes). Yet people have used Skype to talk for more than 69,444,444 days (more than 190,258 years). Go back 150,000 years, if a woolly mammoth and a sabre-toothed tiger had started talking for free on Skype, they would still be chatting away today … and with 40,258 years to go!

 

But what would they talk about?


Posted by Greg Scoblete on February 22, 2008 | Comments (0)



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