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* As described in The Other Wiki, the German Reichspost ran a public videophone service in ''1936'', though it was shut down for WWII.
* AT&T opened its first public videophone booths in the US—the Picturephone Mod I -- in 1964. That would be in the rotary dial era, as pushbutton phones were first marketed to consumers in 1967.
* Attempted by Sony and Mitsubishi in 1989, almost getting into a format war. Unfortunately, technology of the day meant [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Yz0TT439Q they were glorified fax machines], only capable of sending still pictures that interrupted the conversation.
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