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Remember when video conferencing was the future? The new future is video conferencing without the video, just the audio!

Well maybe. But I don't see a lot of hype about voice communication on the web. I am really surprised it's so poorly supported by browsers.

Even voice chat had privacy and umm appropriateness issues, but video chat, fuuurgedaboutit.

It's because they already have that technology. It's called the telephone.