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Friday 22 Sep 2017: Skype was initially called Skyper
The creators of the instant messaging and chat software Skype first wanted to call it "Skyper", which was short for "Sky peer-to-peer”. When all relevant domain names turned out to be taken already, they dropped the "r" as domain names for Skype were still available.

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