world's first webcam

Here is a bit of webcam trivia for your enjoyment.  The very first webcam was witnessed by John Briggs and others in 1994.

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"It was so novel being in Reston, Virginia and seeing real time that status of a coffee pot in England.
One function of our group was to distribute source code for computer water models to be run on main frame computers. We received a request from India with an email address. I emailed the man, we set up an FTP transfer (electronic file transfer), and he had the source code the same day I received his request. The power of the internet."
story courtesy of John Briggs
image c2013 Carole Terwilliger Meyers

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