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Cambridge researchers built the first webcam for coffee
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In 1991, Cambridge researchers Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky pointed a grayscale camera at a coffee pot in the Trojan Room to avoid wasted trips. The image was served over the local network via XCoffee software. In 1993, Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson added HTTP support, making it the first webcam on the open web.
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