As some of you may know I have been traveling for the last month.
During the month my Dell’s hard drive crashed twice, causing me to have to do a clean reinstall of Windows Vista twice, losing all my data and e-mails.
So now I’m back in the US, waiting for Dell to send me a new hard drive and then I get to do the clean install all over again.
Now as to why I love the Internet. While I was away i discovered Skype.
Yes I knew about Skype, but being a US guy, having phones, cell phones, cell cards for the laptop, I just never used it.
So being overseas with no cell phone, calling cards at $.50 a minute which always seem to have a couple of dollars on them when you throw them out, I put $10 on Skype through Paypal and calling everyone I needed to in the states and Canada, and after a month I still had $4.92 left on my Skype account.
While I was using Skype I kept looking at the number of people online using Skype on the bottom of the screen, never saw less than 8 million and as high as almost 11 million.
$.02 a minute not only to call someone around the world, but you can see them as well and they can see you.
Video conferencing at $.02 a minute.
Wow.
So here’s a guy who uses the hell out of the Internet every day for over a decade, who is still finding new uses for, and still being amazed by the power of the Internet.
Michael says
yeah skype is awesome, I use it all the time.
Welcome to the world wide web 😀
Damir says
With the Internet you can leverage your time and be more productive and for sure save lot’s of MONEY as you did with skype
Patrick McDermott says
Hi,
Skype is great.
Look into MagicJack too.
Patrick
Michael says
Patrick, just looked it up, MagicJack looks like a great idea. Looks like its only available in US and Canada for now.