Thursday, January 8, 2015

Skyping the Old Fashioned Way: Bell System's Picturephone


Here's the story about the groundbreaking work of Bell System (AT&T/Western Electric) and their developement of the Picturephone, a invention we today take for granted when using a service like Skype. I had no idea that this device was used by the public as early as 1964.



Here is the debut of the first commercial Picturephone service in Pittsburgh 1970:



Via Boing Boing.

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