‘After Boris Johnson’s Zoom call, all hell broke loose’: inside the world's favourite video app
Guardian Technology
01 Aug 2020 08:00 AM
‘Suddenly, we were all in Zoomtopia.’ Illustration: Design Lad/The Guardian On 6 January, a day after the World Heath Organization first reported a strange cluster of pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, China, a party invitation dropped online. “Mark your calendars”, read the invite sent out by Zoom, a video-conferencing company based in California, “for Zoomtopia 2020!” Innocently enough, Zoom was announcing a real-world get-together for its most ardent clients and fans – at the time, these were mo