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Science fiction continues to be peppered using this concept since ahead of the television was even a widely, publicly accepted household technology. Video chat was featured in classics including H.G. Wells' novels, and early cinematic classics like Metropolis and Just Imagine.

While the technology was experimented with as early as the late 1940s, it wasn't before the late 1990s that such technology was practical, affordable, and in fact, an easy task to use. While telephone companies offered video conferencing and also other types of video chat technologies to businesses as early as the late 1970s, it was rife with problems, such as video and sound quality being poor and limited, the lines dropping, along with the camera equipment being unacceptably obtrusive.

Like most technologies that become a part of daily life, it sprung from something becoming practical to produce, and ultimately, affordable as well. Where once cameras that recorded video, of any sort, were inordinately expensive, now everything, from phones, computers and game consoles to HD front ends and televisions have small pinhole cameras more powerful and high quality than movie studios had a decade previously.

Thanks to this, better technology advocates can enjoy a wide variety of video chatting tools. Instant messengers including AIM, ICQ and MSN have offered video features for chat room functions for a good time, and dedicated live video and audio chatting applications like MeeWii are actually popular since around 2003 as well.

In recent years, now how the web experience itself has got newer thanks to such things as AJAX, Flash and HTML 5, free video chat websites are immensely popular, and serve a large selection of niches for example the random webcam chat system referred to as Chat Roulette, that enables users to randomly connect to millions of strangers on the same server and either see something regrettable, or make a new friend, either is entirely possible.

However, the web front end feature of programs like Chat Roulette is currently being adapted to serve live video chat in additional useful, or practical ways. Many websites are becoming increasingly popular ways of free webcam chat , allowing users who either can't use programs like MeeWii.com or just only need to operate such features on rare occasions to only achieve this without installing heavy applications along with the frameworks to aid them.

Another handy feature of these web-based free video chat services is more devices supports them as there remain a number of platforms, consoles and mobile devices which do not support the heavier application-based video chatting tools, which implies that with this particular feature, more users can connect across a wider variety of platforms.

In the future, several developers have announced that their free video chat web applications might even support cross-network chatting, allowing a person to log to the website, and chat with a MeeWii user, for example, or possibly a video phone caller employing a cable service's HD front end.

As we as a society look back, it's interesting to view that this future is a sneaky thing, not announcing itself one day as having arrived, cherubs trumpeting its glorious descent upon the world. One has to check at what one takes for granted as just a part of "modern technology" to determine how the mysterious and alluring technological wonders in the past in fact exist here and now.