Kyle Mathews
@kam
Reading a book on Bell Labs -- fascinating to see they launched a video telephone service (zoom but in a square box) all the way back in 1969 predicting it'd "lessen the need for in-person meetings". It flopped then but 50 years later zoom finally took the concept to mass market
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Now we'd easily categorize it as Network Effect Cold Start Problem but the world has very few networks at the time so the at&t executives didn't seem to realize what they needed to do
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
The book was written pre-zoom and amusingly still mostly dismisses the idea of video chatting 🤣
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