Video calls more than 50 years ago
I came across a post by John McArthur, head of Walden Technology Partners and a recent convert to Skype. What got my imagination going was his experience with Skype (paired with a Logitech webcam) that sparked memories of his visit to the New York World's Fair in 1964. That year, AT&T demonstrated its Picturephone, an effort to add faces to the voices in a phone conversation. The concept never took off and AT&T now calls it "big, expensive, and uncomfortably intrusive."
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sandra.mcallister commented Sunday, Mar 30
I have just purchased Skpe Pro thinking it would be a cheap way of calling my son in America. I was a little confused to see the cost of a minutes call is £0.012 (excellent value!) but I was charged £0.041 for a seven second call! Can you explain please.