The first webcam watched a coffee pot
In 1991, the world's first webcam monitored a university coffee pot, preventing wasted trips and pioneering remote visual monitoring over computer networks.
The world's first webcam, created in 1991 at the University of Cambridge, wasn't for security or video calls. Researchers, tired of finding the coffee pot empty, set up a grayscale camera to monitor it remotely. This simple solution, called the Trojan Room Coffee Pot, displayed images on local network screens every few minutes.
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