Back in the day before the 14.4 modems existed we used a perl techonlogy to move the compuserve (which was one of the biggest access providers) gif technology to do animated slide shows fed from live cameras
The files were digitized compressed and sent to the client using cgi programming and video conference software and any other thing we could think of.
There were programs once we got 14.4 like cuseeme I can't remember the dates

I do not remember why I can't remember the dates butt it was a shit load of ounces ago.
What is the deal with the dates on cuseeme and those guys from back in the day?