Skype hits major milestone

100 billion Skype-to-Skype minutes now served

22 February 2008 10:42 GMT / By Katie Scott

Here's a whole load of mind-boggling figures for you just to make your Friday morning more interesting and the hours until home time fly by as you try and get your head round them!

Skype's 276 million registered users around the world have now talked with one another for more than 100 billion minutes (100,000,000,000) using Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls since Skype launched in 2003.

This equates to 1 minute of free talk for every man, woman and child that has ever walked the Earth.

Or, to put it another way, people have used Skype to talk for more than 69,444,444 days (more than 190,258 years).

To put this in perspective - and to use something we all know and love - the hamburger - it took McDonald's nearly 40 years to serve 100 billion hamburgers (from 1955 to 1994). But Skype has hit its target after four and a half years.

Confused yet?

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