142 hour marathon Skype call

142:54:50, to be precise. Just shy of six days (144 hours).

Richard and Kelly from the Netherlands kept a Skype voice call running for 143 hours from Wednesday, February 04, 2009, until 10:00AM Tuesday, February 10, 2009.  Richard sent a picture file to Kelly during the call. A system error cut the call. Richard used Skype 4.0 BETA and Kelly used Skype 3.X on Windows.

Why? "Well... to see if its possible, and we are trying now to break this record to a new record ;)"

Richard said "during the conversations we had no problem, other then after a file transfer the line went bad, so we muted the thing for one second and then it worked. We didn't think it would be a world record, but we think its great!!!"

This is a day longer than the previous record by Monty from Palmdale, California.

See also:

• Marathon Skype voice call: 66 hours 40 minutes. October 2008.
• 115 hours in a Skype call. November 2008.

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