I searched the Wikipedia entries for AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger to no avail for a start date for video chat. Both entries suggest a start date of around 2004 or 2005 for video conferencing. This does not jive with my webcam chat memories. Could it have been 2002? Certainly no later than 2002 was I video chatting on AIM.

Science fiction...except that for in 1/2000 or soon after, I was doing video chat via aol instant messenger and probably on msn messenger, too. For free. So I suppose that 10 yrs ago it was more like science non-fiction.

Paul, would you like to comment on the following quote from this article:

"And Skype, which provides video chats for anyone with an Internet connection, lets us see and hear people who might be halfway across the world – for free.

"That’s like the revolutionary thing that’s happening right now," Levinson points out. "The idea that you can talk to someone and see their face and have a video conversation with them that doesn’t cost anything – that would have been science fiction 10 years ago."

Can Tiger's infidelity count against him in the Federer vs. Woods debate?

Why are people surprised Vince Young is winning football games for the Tennessee Titans? This isn't the first time he's brought them back from the brink of what could've been a really poor season. And his ability to win was unbelievable in college.

Here's one of the stupidest articles in the history of mankind, courtesy of a Yahoo blog: NASCAR Athlete

LeBron is encouraging NBA players to abandon the number 23 out of respect for Michael Jordan. He's going to switch to number 6 himself. I think that this allows people an escape for people to switch since Jordan's image is slowly fading into that of a jerk (especially since his hall of fame speech). And if everyone avoids 23, maybe in the future people will think it's because of Jordan's jerkiness instead of his basketball prowess.
Probably over-thinking this.

Extreme laptops ranging from ultra-light to super fast.