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April 22, 2004
Celebrating 40 Years of the Video Telephony Revolution!
It was 40 years ago today that AT&T Introduced the world to the concept of the video telephone at the opening of the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, New York.
While I'm a product of the Jetsons Generation, and I'm not yet a regular user of Personal video communications, I do look forward to the day when real-time video communications becomes a part of my everyday life.
As a side bar, there is a little bit of telecom trivia associated with the advent of the AT&T Video Telephone. If you were ever wondering why there is a "T1" and "T3" term used in networking and you don't generally hear about "T2", you might find it interesting to learn that T2 was designed to help make the original AT&T video phones happen.
With 40 years behind us, I look forward to the growth of real-time video communications over the next 3-5 years.
Posted by jeff on April 22, 2004 04:21 PM | Permalink
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