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Question 1

How did Zoom's new-subscriber growth in the first two months of 2020 compare with all of 2019?

Accepted Answer

more added in 2 months than all of 2019. Bernstein Research found Zoom's video-call service grew faster in early 2020 than in the entire previous year, as remote work took off.

Question 2

UK video platform StarLeaf said its national call volumes rose by roughly how much in the same period?

Accepted Answer

about 600%. StarLeaf reported one of the biggest jumps of any video platform as whole countries shifted to remote video calls almost overnight.

Question 3

Among people who had videoconferencing access in 2010, what share used it 'frequently' or 'all the time'?

Accepted Answer

54%. Even before COVID-19 normalized video calls, more than half of people with access to the technology already used it regularly.

Question 4

For Russia's 2012 presidential election, about how many webcams were installed at polling stations to monitor voting?

Accepted Answer

about 290,000. Russia installed webcams at roughly 90,000 polling stations for the 2012 election, using about 290,000 cameras in total to help deter fraud.

Question 5

FogCam, one of the longest-running webcams ever, first went online in 1994. As of what year was it still streaming live?

Accepted Answer

still running as of October 2025. FogCam has broadcast continuously from a California campus since 1994, making it one of the internet's oldest live webcams.

Question 6

By about what year had 3D webcams become available to ordinary consumers for under $100?

Accepted Answer

2012. 3D webcams, once expensive specialty hardware, dropped below $100 by 2012, though they never became mainstream.

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