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Skype.com becomes a registered domain name. *note: April 1st wasn't the actual date.. It was sometime in April.
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The first public beta version is released to the public. *note: Not actual date, but sometime in August.
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eBay purchases Skype for an approximate $2.6 billion. *note: Not actual date, but sometime in October.
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Video telephoney is introduced. Videotelephony uses the technologies for reception and the transmission of audio-video signals for communicating through people in real-time. *note: Not exact date.
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Skype 2.0 is released for Mac users.
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Facetime was introduced on the iPhone 4 by Apples CEO Steve Jobs.
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Fourth generation iPod touch is installed with Facetime.
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Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion.