Ancient Web: The coffee pot became a webcam because someone

A Cambridge lab’s one-frame-per-second camera let colleagues check the pot without walking down the hall. Once the Web arrived, the local convenience hack became a global curiosity. The page still explains the Acorn hardware, JPEGs, and network plumbing—because the webcam began as a practical problem, not a media business.

Original Trojan Room page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

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