https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xywv4/skype-new-50-person-video-calling-feature

Humanity has dreamed of live video calling between groups of people since the late 19th century—almost since the invention of the telephone.

Today, in the comparatively futuristic year of 2019, what we’ve been granted are a slew of imperfect video conferencing applications like Skype, Google Hangouts, and Zoom. It’s rare that I’ve seen someone successfully set up one of these for a big meeting on the first try. Most of these freeze or crash my computer at some point during the call.