{"id":1992,"date":"2008-05-11T14:46:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T22:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2008-09-03T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T16:32:40","slug":"skype-video-is-terrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/skype-video-is-terrific\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype Video: Something Wonderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"video-skype\" href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/video-skype.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought my family webcams. We now chat on Skype with video chat often. It&#8217;s really terrific. Setting it up was easy. I&#8217;d just VNC into their computer and set it up for them&#8230; I&#8217;d tell my cousin, &#8220;Put in the CD that came with the webcam&#8221; [click click click]. &#8220;Ok, now plug the webcam in&#8221;. [wait a moment] &#8220;Can you see yourself on the screen?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ok, now I&#8217;ll sign you up for Skype and put you in my address book. [click click click] And I&#8217;ll call you. [ring ring] Can you see me and hear me on the computer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes! Oh this is terrific!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1968: &#8220;2001: A Space Odyssey&#8221; video phone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2001-telephone-call\" href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2001-telephone-call.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1994\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2001-telephone-call.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"2001-telephone-call\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"2001-telephone-call-1\" href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2001-telephone-call-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1993\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2001-telephone-call-1.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"2001-telephone-call-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008: My aunt in Florida chatting with my cousins in Nashville<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"video-skype\" href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/video-skype.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2000\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/video-skype.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"video-skype\" width=\"105\" height=\"200\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my family webcams. We now chat on Skype with video chat often. It&#8217;s really terrific. Setting it up was easy. I&#8217;d just VNC into their computer and set it up for them&#8230; I&#8217;d tell my cousin, &#8220;Put in the CD that came with the webcam&#8221; [click click click]. &#8220;Ok, now plug the webcam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}