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The first publicly demonstrated two-way video call was on April 9, 1930. It was a call between AT&T's Bell Laboratories and AT&T headquarters using early television equipment. Getting from there to Zoom took a long time, though, mostly because early versions of the video call required both parties to own ultra-expensive equipment that provided really awful picture quality.

AT&T spent the better part of the 20th century on failed videophone model after failed videophone model, eventually concluding that "people did not want to be seen on the telephone." How quaint.

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Amie Smitham

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