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Webcam and coffee- Soft spoken bedtime learning
The world's first webcam wasn't built for fame — it was built for coffee. In 1991, researchers at Cambridge University pointed a grainy camera at the coffee pot in the Trojan Room, just so nobody had to walk down the hall for an empty pot. They never patented it. But when the camera reached the early web in 1993, the whole world started checking in on it — and when it was finally switched off in 2001, the shutdown made front-page news.
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