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Monday, 6 December 2010

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In an interesting bit of Future Past trivia, it turns out that the first videophone system was set up in Germany in 1936 to promote the Berlin Olympics.

So, the first use of the videophone was to bicker about track and field statistics.  Sounds about right.
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