Trojan room coffee pot
The world's first
webcam was pointed at the
Trojan room coffee pot at the computer science department of
Cambridge University.
The camera was installed on a
local network in
1991.
Using the
X Windows protocol,
Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote the client and
Paul Jardetzky wrote the server.
The camera was connected to the
Internet in
1993 by Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson.
On
August 22,
2001 the pot (actually the fourth or fifth seen on-line) was finally switched off, and auctioned on
eBay for
£33503350.
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