• hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    Reakky? I’ve lived in Australia for 17 years and I’ve been skyping, now zooming with family all the time. I think my Sony phone from that time had built in Skype.

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      7 months ago

      That’s very different to 20+ years ago. In 2003, International phone calls were prohibitively expensive. Skype existed, but you needed to both be at home on your computers. Home Internet in Australia was probably at best a 1.5MBit ADSL, Maybe Cable if you lived in one of the areas where it was just coming onto the scene. Then, there’s the timezone issue - but that’s still an issue. It is loads easier to stay in contact today.

      My brother settled in the USA, so these have been big factors for my family since the 90’s.