The Birth of WebRTC

The Dream: Real-Time Human Communication

Imagine you want to build a video conferencing platform.

Not a toy project.

Something like:

• Zoom
• Google Meet
• Microsoft Teams
• Discord
• WhatsApp Calling

Let's define the requirements.

Requirement 1: Very Low Latency

Human conversation is extremely sensitive to delay.

Imagine this dialogue.

Alice:

Hello Bob

Bob hears it:

2 seconds later

Now Bob responds.

Alice hears it: