The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

Witness History: Archive 2013

English - November 25, 2013 09:31 - 8 minutes - 8.19 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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In 1993 the first webcam went online. 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 explain how they developed the precursor to Skype.