No strangers allowed there! Changes in the videochat are coming So, you’d need to know the users id before you could videocall them. There were the most common videochat apps, as we call them today. That was a great time for us!įor some years the only way to communicate in a videochat session was by adding an user to your friend list in MSN, AOL or ICQ. If you remember any of the above, you are probably over 30 years old. One could expect 12 frames per second in the videochat session and that was just fine.ĭo you remember downloading a file with the speed at 5Kb/s? Do you remember having the telephone line busy for hours while you were connected? The speed of the internet connection was a few kilobytes per second, so that was expected. MSN Messenger was one of the first programs to allow its users to have videochat.Īt this time, the video quality was very poor, and a low frame rate was typical. The beginning of the videochat feature was in early 2000s. But some others cite MSN Messenger to be the first webcam chat available to install. Some people cite ICQ as the first program to add this feature. It is unclear when did it was launched exactly. As we have previously talked in Random Chat, the VideoChat was introduced sometime in the 2000s.
