The first webcam was created in Cambridge to check the status of a coffee pot.

The first webcam was created in Cambridge to check the status of a coffee pot.

The world’s first webcam was created to monitor a coffee pot at Cambridge University.

• It was called the Trojan Room Coffee Pot

• The camera was installed in 1991

• It was located outside the computer lab of the University of Cambridge

• It let people in the building know the status of coffee by displaying a live 128×128 greyscale image of the pot

• The last photo the webcam took was in 2001 when the computer department moved.

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