How does one bring intimacy to virtual communication? Skype sought to do just that with their video-chatting platform in 2003. It was such a game-changer that it entered our lexicon and has since become a verb. You could google this, if you weren’t busy skyping. And though it isn’t the only way to do it—there’s alsoGoogle Chat, FaceTime, Facebook Messenger—it is Skype that’s become synonymous with live video calls.