Videophones — Paleofuture

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Videophones

The history of FaceTime, Skype, videophone, picturephone, and whatever else you want to call it.

This Video Chat Prediction From 1918 Was So Much Cooler Than Zoom

Future Calling: Videophones in the World of The Jetsons

CCTV and Shipping Via Missile: 7 Ideas For the Future From a 1950s Tech Company

The Price For A Videophone in 1955 Was $44,000 Adjusted for Inflation

The Fanciful, Chocolate-Filled World of 2012

How Russians Imagined the Year 2017 in 1960

1961 AT&T Film Shows Just How Awkward Videophone Shopping Could've Been

Predictions for Educational TV in the 1930s

This 1993 AT&T Concept Video Predicted Skype's New Translator App

Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction

Here's What Skype Was Like In 1947

A Brief History of the Videophone That Almost Was

In the 1920s, Shoppers Got Fooled By Fake Televisions

Telemedicine and Operating on Patients by Video Was Predicted in 1925

Pacific Bell Concept Video (1991)

This Phone Ad From 1968 Promised 3D Videophones and Robot Shoppers by the Year 2000

Crossing a Telephone With a TV Set in 1968

Telephones of Tomorrow (1962)

One-World Job Market (1959)

Our Drunken Videophonic Future (1943)

Amazing 1960s Predictions About Satellites, Email, and the Internet

Talking of Tomorrow (1962)

The Future is Now (1955)

Face to Face Phone Calls (1957)

Connections: AT&T's Vision of the Future (Part 4, 1993)

Real Picturephone? (1939)

"Broadband" by Australia Telecom (1992)

Watching Television With My Robot Butler (1932)

Here's How Microsoft Imagined the Smart Home of the Future In 1999

Videophone "Progress" Newspaper Ad (1976)

Tomorrow's Telephone and The Leisure Society That Never Arrived

How Bell Labs Almost Put a Videophone in Every Home

Motorola's 2000 A.D. (1990)

"The device he would use is called a Picturephone..."

What's the Generic Word For Skype? Videophone? Video Chat?

'Optimistic' Predictions From 1950 That Warned of the Coming Dystopia

Facebook's Portal Is the Jetsons Videophone That We Thought Humanity Skipped

Rare AT&T Videophones From the 1970s Go Up for Auction This Month

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