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the first COTS videophones appeared > 50 years ago (though very expensive). either that adds to your existential angst or now you can frame this as a leap forwa
by colinsane 3y ago
the first COTS videophones appeared > 50 years ago (though very expensive). either that adds to your existential angst or now you can frame this as a leap forward: “50 years without any widely deployed open source video-conferencing stack and suddenly it was rolled out to millions of users in the last 5% of that timeline with the majority of those end users not having to go out of their way for it.”
it’s up to you.
- arghwhat 3y agoI'll reword that: - The technology was attempted and failed 50 years ago, like so many other things. - 12 years ago, video calls (1-to-1) became available to everyone - 4 years ago, for inexplicable reasons, demand spiked for videoconferencing. MS Teams gained an annoying foothold. - Around the same time, Jitsi Meet usage goes up as an easily accessible open source solution. - 2 years ago (looks like only 1 when checking), Matrix replaces integration with a native feature, for standalone feature parity with the rest of the space. Not that exciting a timeline...