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video telephone systems

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  In videophone: Early videophones
  …experimental videophone system, known as Picturephone, in 1963. By 1968 Bell engineers had developed a second-generation Picturephone, which was put into public service in 1971.
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videoconferencing

• In videoconferencing: The rise and fall of the Picturephone
  …videoconferencing tool—a videophone called the Picturephone—at the World’s Fair. After spending \$500 million on development and predicting one million users by 1980, AT&T was stunned when the Picturephone turned out to be a financial failure, garnering only about 500 subscribers.
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