Trojan Room Coffee Pot
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was in the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. The webcam is designed to help people to prevent other parts of the building pointless trips to the coffee room by them on the desktop of the user's computer, a live-128 × 128 grayscale image of the state of the coffee pot.
History
The camera was installed on a local network in 1991 with the help of a video capture card on an Acorn Archimedes computer. Using the X Window System protocol, Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote the client software, and Paul Jardetzky wrote the server. Won in web browsers images in March 1993, it was clear this would be an easier way to have the image may be present. The camera was connected to the Internet in November 1993 by Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson. Therefore it was visible to any Internet user grew and became a popular symbol of the beginning of the Web.
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was in the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. The webcam is designed to help people to prevent other parts of the building pointless trips to the coffee room by them on the desktop of the user's computer, a live-128 × 128 grayscale image of the state of the coffee pot.
History
The camera was installed on a local network in 1991 with the help of a video capture card on an Acorn Archimedes computer. Using the X Window System protocol, Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote the client software, and Paul Jardetzky wrote the server. Won in web browsers images in March 1993, it was clear this would be an easier way to have the image may be present. The camera was connected to the Internet in November 1993 by Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson. Therefore it was visible to any Internet user grew and became a popular symbol of the beginning of the Web.
