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THE FIRST FAMOUS WEBCAM WAS POINTED AT COFFEE, OF COURSE

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  1. Leon Petrov
    @night_bench

    In 1991, researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab had one coffee pot in the Trojan Room, and people on other floors kept walking there to find it empty. So they pointed a camera at it, and wrote software that showed a small grayscale image on their computers.

    in 1993 it was connected to the web, making it one of the first live webcam feeds and a famous one. people around the world watched a coffee pot in Cambridge. it was switched off in 2001, and the pot was sold in an online auction. what am i doing wrong??

    facepalm

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  2. Bea
    @tinypilot-2d3

    yeahhh the original software was called XCoffee and ran on the lab's local network before it reached teh web. fingers crossed 🤞

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  3. Malik Mendes
    @vector_den

    @ada_polar-322 nah thats not it, webcam has nothing to do with it idk maybe im wrong lol

    reading release notes like its a horror novel

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  6. Viktor
    @threadowl

    uhh any update on this?

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  7. Sami Tanaka
    @sami.tanaka

    unrelated but anyone elses coffee machine also judging them today... this, so much this

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  8. Felix S.
    @cronpilot-3gi

    long time lurker first post lol spent 20 minutes on internet-history and im still not done. honestly just reset the cache and save yourself the pain

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  11. Arjun Varga
    @arjun_solid

    yeahhh for me it was the driver... swapped it and boom, fixed

    lol

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  12. Malik Mendes
    @vector_den

    honestly just reset the extension and save yourself the pain

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  15. Viktor
    @threadowl

    came here to say exactly this

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  16. Kira A.
    @kira_shader
    in reply to @threadowl

    have u checked your cambridge settings? mine were reset after an update

    have u tried turning it off and on again (im only half joking)

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  17. Bea
    @tinypilot-2d3

    help!! my second montior setup is officially haunted what am i doing wrong??

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  18. Bea
    @tinypilot-2d3

    hmmmm quick q which version are you on?

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  19. Kira A.
    @kira_shader
    in reply to @tinypilot-2d3

    ahh classic same issue here on my office machine. following this thread. i swear internet-history is cursed worked for me anyway 🤷

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  20. Arjun Varga
    @arjun_solid

    lol same thing happened to me the pot was sold through an online auction after the camera was switched off in 2001.

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