Voice chat

Voice chat. This is a technological advance from the 21st century that allows people separated by long distances to talk to each other using their voices. In this way, it is very similar to the telephone. Voice chat is better than the telephone because it's usually free of charge. Unless you don't like talking to people. Then it's worse than the telephone.

According to Wikipedia, voice chat became especially popular among video gamers, who used the technology to taunt each other across long distances while competing in games like "Metroid Prime Hunters" and "Pokemon Diamond and Pearl." My grandmother's name was Pearl. She passed away in 1995, which means she never had the opportunity to use voice chat.


Voice chat has rendered Native American switchboard operators obsolete.
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