Google Meet is Google's video conferencing service, first released in 2017 as part of its workplace calling tools and widely adopted for remote work and online classes from 2020 onward. Its outgoing call tone became a shared everyday sound for millions of laptop users, similar in role to the Discord call sound for gamers. Because the ring is so tied to waiting for colleagues to join, clips of it spread in memes and edited videos as a shorthand for meetings, delays, and awkward online silence.