A brief overview of the history, architecture, use cases, and future of WebRTC.

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WebRTC is a platform giving browsers, mobile apps, and desktop apps real-time communication capabilities, typically used for video calling. Google initiated the idea to create WebRTC in 2009, as an alternative to Adobe Flash and desktop applications that couldn't run in the browser. In 2013, Mozilla and Google demonstrated video calling between their browsers.

WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard