The concern stays: Do you desire to see my face?
By PopSci Staff |
March 1988: Ronald Reagan is president, Rick Astley is topping the charts with “Never Gonna Give You Up,” and Popular Science questioned if the Mitsubishi VisiTel would shepherd in a brand-new wave of video phone innovation.
Well, as you mostlikely understand, the VisiTel didn’t precisely shake up tech history or endedupbeing a essential trend gizmo of the age. Instead, the gadget endedupbeing a little part of a really long history of video phone innovation that dates back to the ’70s—the 1870s.
FaceTiming a goodfriend or linking with work coworkers on Zoom hasactually endedupbeing part of our daily lives, however how did we get here? How did we go from a satirical illustration poking enjoyable at Thomas Edison to video talking