The first webcam was invented in order to see if there was still coffee in the Cambridge break room

Today in the humble history of the internet: the very first webcam was invented in 1991 because computer science researchers at the University of Cambridge just wanted to see if there was coffee in the break room. Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote software dubbed "XCoffee" to save his coworkers the disappointment of walking all the way to the break room to find an empty pot. — Read the rest

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