Then my guess is you're not old enough to have used it much when it first came out. Because at that time, it wasn't really competing with other internet calling

Then my guess is you're not old enough to have used it much when it first came out. Because at that time, it wasn't really competing with other internet calling services, it was competing with international phone rates that were dollars a minute. In some cases it actually made long distance relationships viable that otherwise weren't.