{
  "type": "obituary",
  "publisher": "Rest In Print",
  "hall": "technology",
  "slug": "skype",
  "subject": {
    "name": "Skype",
    "maker": "Skype Technologies, later Microsoft"
  },
  "born": "2003-08-29",
  "died": "2025-05-05",
  "cause_of_death": "shutdown",
  "cause_description": "a quiet SIGTERM at the end of a sprint",
  "notice": [
    "Skype died on May 5, 2025, at 21. Its users were moved to Teams, a sentence that does a lot of work.",
    "For years it was how families heard each other across oceans, at a delay, through a ringtone everyone can still hum.",
    "Its parent company bought it for a great deal of money and then built a cousin.",
    "This desk, which has relatives in other time zones, will miss it more than it expected."
  ],
  "in_lieu_of_flowers": "In lieu of flowers, ask if they can hear you now.",
  "sources": [
    "https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-skype-shutting-down/",
    "https://9to5google.com/2025/02/28/microsoft-shuts-down-skype/"
  ],
  "url": "https://restinprint.studio/hall/skype"
}