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Trojan Room Coffee PotThe Trojan room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the Trojan Room, within the old Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University. The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room by providing a live picture of the state of the coffee pot. The camera was installed on a local network in 1991 using a video capture card on an Acorn Archimedes. Using the X Window System protocol, Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote the client and Paul Jardetzky wrote the server. When web-browsers gained the ability to display images in 1993, that was a more sensible way to make the picture available. The camera was connected to the Internet in 1993 by Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson. It therefore also became visible to everybody in the world and became a popular landmark on the early web. At 0954 UTC on August 22, 2001 the camera was finally switched off and the pot (actually the fourth or fifth seen on-line) was auctioned on eBay for Pound Sterling3350. External links *Trojan Room Coffee Pot resources
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