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Limits RegistryIn 1991 Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory pointed a camera at the Trojan Room coffee pot so colleagues could check it was full before walking over. The feed moved to the World Wide Web in 1993 and the pot was switched off in 2001 after becoming an Internet icon.
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In 1991 Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory pointed a camera at the Trojan Room coffee pot so colleagues could check it was full before walking over. The feed moved to the World Wide Web in 1993 and the pot was switched off in 2001 after becoming an Internet icon.
The year the camera that became the world's first webcam began streaming images over a network.
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