10 Apps to Help You Manage Your videochats

As we have previously talked inRandom Chat, the VideoChat was introduced sometime in the 2000s. It is unclear when did it was launched exactly. Some people cite ICQ as the first program to add this feature. But some others cite MSN Messenger to be the first webcam chat available to install.

The beginning of the videochat

The beginning of the videochat feature was in early 2000s.MSN Messenger was one of the first programs to allow its users to have videochat.

At this time, the video quality was very poor, and a low frame rate was typical.The speed of the internet connection was a few kilobytes per second, so that was expected. One could expect 12 frames per second in the videochat session and that was just fine.

Do you remember downloading a file with the speed at 5Kb/s? Do you remember having the telephone line busy for hours while you were connected?

If you remember any of the above, you are probably over 30 years old.That was a great time for us!

For some years the only way to communicate in a videochat session was by adding an user to your friend list in MSN, AOL or ICQ. There were the most common videochat apps, as we call them today.

So, youd need to know the users id before you could videocall them.No strangers allowed there!

Changes in the videochat are coming

In 2003, Skype was launched officially, and its usage grew slowly during the following years.Some years later, in 2011 Microsoft acquired Skype. Two years after that, MSN Messenger was discontinued and replaced with Skype for all users. Those were very bad news for everybody, as we liked MSN Messenger.

Hey, we are going fast here, arent we?

Lets get back to late 2008, when the first online videochat was launched.As weve previously talked, some cite the creation to the first random videochat toOmegle, while others cite another website that we are not mentioning here for trademark reasons.You should know what website we are talking about, some roulette website, though.

In the website archive.org Omegle was first cached in March, 2009. The other videochat site is cached first in November 2009.So we assume that Omegle was the first to come up with the random videochat idea.

The rapid increase of users in the random videochats

As we said, since the first release of the random videochat by Omegle, some other websites copied the function. Therefore, the random video chat feature experienced an increase in its use since 2010 until now. Some other videochats sites copied and even improved the functionality of videochat, such as quierochat.com, one of our parent websites.