The Trojan Room coffee pot
The world's first webcam went online in 1993. Its camera was focused on a coffee pot.
Witness History · BBC World Service
April 7, 20208m 59s
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Show Notes
The world's first webcam went online in 1993. Its camera was focused on a coffee pot so that computer scientists in Cambridge, in the UK, could see if there was any coffee available. Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Martyn Johnson and Paul Jardetzky explained to Rebecca Kesby how they developed it.
This programme is a rebroadcast
(Photo: The Trojan Room coffee pot)