The original webcam pointed at a coffee pot, preserved like a museum piece

In 1991 some Cambridge researchers got tired of walking to an empty pot, so they built a camera. The internet has never recovered.

Why we kept this

This pot is basically patient zero for every webcam that came after it.

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