ASSIA, Inc. Blog How the Inventor of DSL Altered the Course of Connectivity

When 7-year-old John Cioffi ran up to the Bell System pavilion at the 1964-1965 World's Fair in New York City, he couldn't wait to see the first telephone with video: the much-lauded Picturephone. The boy had been disappointed that phone calls provided only audio. He gazed up at the Picturephone's oval screen, with its grainy, black-and-white video images-the culmination of US $500 million [...]