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This is fascinating for the ways that it's wrong, like, subscription services are as old as newspapers, and early internet news sites including Wall Street Jour
by hannasanarion 1y ago
This is fascinating for the ways that it's wrong, like, subscription services are as old as newspapers, and early internet news sites including Wall Street Journal had paywalls at the same time or earlier.
Also this:
> Video teleconferencing, with the proto-Zoom platform CU-SeeMe
Apparently Skype has completely disappeared from the cultural memory. Video conferencing was invented in 2020, everybody.
- phyzome 1y agoAccording to Wikipedia, CU-SeeMe was released in 1993 and Skype came a decade later.
- hannasanarion 1y agoI'm referring to the fact that johnny-come-lately Zoom is the reference point for all video conferencing products. CU-SeeMee isn't "proto-Skype" it's a "proto-Zoom".