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Proof you can gather the whole team and still mute what matters.
means A meeting held over live video and audio between people in different locations, usually via software like Zoom or Teams.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound: 'video,' from Latin videre meaning 'to see,' bolted onto 'conference,' from Latin conferre, 'to bring together.' The word surfaces as videoconferencing technology develops from the 1970s onward, but it only becomes everyday vocabulary once broadband and webcams make seeing colleagues' ceilings a daily ritual.
- origin
- concept predates internet, 1960s AT&T Picturephone flopped
- tell
- everyone checks their own face more than others'
- ritual phrase
- you're on mute, said unironically daily
- side effect
- coined zoom fatigue, a real studied phenomenon