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by rtx 2014 days ago
It all new, Zoom actually is one of the pioneers.
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WebEx (acquired by Cisco) had all of the core functionality before Zoom.
Yes but getting 10 people together on a WebEx call involved 15 minutes of tech support at the start of each meeting. It just wasn't as smooth.
The zoom founder even worked at WebEx. So yes.
Yes, I am contrasting it with Webex.
What was new?
The aggressive sales team focused on a video calling product; all of the other major solutions are afterthoughts owned by companies focusing on other products.

Oh, and that "Brady Bunch" view that Google quickly copied, after refusing to update Google Meet for years before that.

Time to to WOW. Using zoom for the first time, launching an instance on Digital Ocean. It's common now but at the time it was unheard of.