In 1992, AT&T’s VideoPhone 2500 brought grainy video calling to the home at a slow 10 frames per second. Here’s how CNN originally reported on the $1500 …
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Long before Zoom, this is what video calling looked like
24 comments on Long before Zoom, this is what video calling looked like
24 responses to “Long before Zoom, this is what video calling looked like”
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AT&T and CNN are owned by the same company…
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dems spread covid19 by lunar new year parade, use thugs to break glass of business during inauguration,let rioters burn/loot, all to prevent average person from starting new jobs from scratch to up social ladder
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Amazing tech!!
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Lol I wasn’t even born
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How time flies. We're close to the Jetsons and the Disney movie "Wall-E"
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That worried black dude was right. Fast forward two decades and kids go on Chatroulette to see a dude’s schlong streaming live from somewhere in Kazakhstan.
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The ideas were there but instead humans fought each other and it took us 30 years to produce reasonable video calling. Imagine what we could achieve if we lived in a peaceful time.
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Is this over regular phone lines??? Cause squeezing 10fps out of that is actually impressive
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I’d like to go back to when there was no video option.
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To bad this and the first iteration or two of Cisco video calling/conferencing had no security or encryption.
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Wow, this is pretty incredible, but smart phones took a whole 15 years more? I feel like they have advanced technology, but they’re only stretching it out to make money. I’d rather see that technology now as early as possible, and let the new generations worry about newer technology.
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Then: "just imagine unsupervised children….."
Today: Little Timmy searching for java…."J…A…V…<enter>…A" -
Lmao at “long before zoom”
Skype is typing…
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Wow high tech did exist in 1992
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It looks like 2fps.
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I bet people then were like "just give it a year or two and we will have good video calls regularly!"……
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I remember video calls with land lines was around in the 1990s. It was soo cool and i think it still is
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These CNN throwbacks are so cool to watch
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That was seriously tech, as luxurious as having a landline in your car!
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skype has been around for years. what are you talking about ''before zoom''?
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People have had face time on their cell phones for years.
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900 number… The kids are getting naked vouluntary now
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Wow, those were the good ole days. When payphones were at every convienence store, local and long distance phone rate packages were the only way to have phone service unless you used calling cards, and video calling phones .
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Lets be youtube friends ctKk
