In the interests of full disclosure I must say that I am a former Net2Phone employee. Wanted to get that out of the way right upfront.
In July 1996 direct descendants of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson completed the first ever VoIP telephone call. Bell's great granddaughter located in New York City called Watson's great granddaughter in London, UK. Net2Phone and its corporate parent, IDT were the originators of this new communications system. At that time, the call was placed using an Internet connected PC to any telephone number in the world.
Through the years, the technology improved,...