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Try 60 years earlier

"Simonyi reckons Kubrick's seminal 2001 a Space Odyssey from the moon-landing days of 1969 foreshadows the kind of video calls now in Skype."

1909, EM Forster, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops