A friend called me on Skype

[question everything]

nothing unusual, except that he was calling from Europe.

Nothing unusual there, except that he was not at an Internet cafe in a big city; he was at a camping ground in Norway where there was an Internet connection and... he was calling using his iPod!

Now, that was amazing.

[SoCalDem]

1. It is, indeed

and to think that when I was a teen, a single phone in the house, wired to the wall, was the only option:)

[question everything]

3. Or, a party line

at least for a while.

[Mnemosyne]

9. Yeah, those were really interesting... n/t

[targetpractice]

2. I talked to my friend in Berlin for 90 minutes iPhone to iPhone

...using Skype.

The voice quality is amazing... Got disconnected twice, but who cares? It's free!!

[question everything]

4. It is. Still, my friend emphasized that it was not his iPhone

but an iPod.

Will have to talk again when he is back home.

[targetpractice]

8. Skype works on an iPod touch, too.

Using Wi-Fi instead of a cellular network.

[ddeclue]

5. Been doing it for a while now... I can video conf from anywhere to anywhere

with my netbook and my Verizon Wireless EVDO card.

[bridgit]

6. oh yeah, not just cool - cool beans!

:kick:

[proud patriot]

7. welcoem to the future

Very cool

[Gregorian]

10. This may seem a little freakish, but

a friend just lost his mom last week. She had been in poor health for a few years. He had a Skype connection in his parent's house so he could keep a realtime communication with them. Audio and video. I thought it was weird. But when I brought it up, he said his parents loved it.

We're a few 50 plus year olds who were early into the net. My first email was 1990, and he was surfing the net around 1994.

I think it's one of the greatest social benefits to the human race. We now have one large mind, instead of many disconnected ones.