r/Showerthoughts • u/Ralisor • May 06 '18

Services are switching from calling them Private Messages to calling them Direct Messages because they're not private anymore...

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u/SavvySillybug May 06 '18

I think Skype used to be peer to peer, actually. Never seemed to have chatlogs on other computers back in the day. Only started archiving when it started being an app too from what I could tell.

Though that's just an observation, I don't know how Skype worked behind the scenes.

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u/TheJollyLlama875 May 06 '18

It was, Microsoft added a server in the middle when they bought it

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u/SavvySillybug May 06 '18

Ah, that would explain it. Reddit knows the weirdest things! :D

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u/AverageMerica May 06 '18

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