Before COVID, conference calls still ran on phone bridges — a reminder of how fast work changed
tkexpress11 · x · 2026-07-23
The author reflects on how younger founders are shocked that, before COVID, most people still used phone-line conference bridges and introduced themselves when joining a call.
The broader point is that the pandemic-era shift in work tools—Zoom, LLMs, agents, Slack—was a real structural change, even if people were not thinking about AI at the time.
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