"Computer technology now moves so fast it's hard to remember life before the internet. But just 19 years ago at the beginning of the nineties, the fledgling world wide web had no search engines, no social networking sites, and no webcam.
The scientists credited with inventing the first webcam - thereby launching the revolution that would bring us video chats and live webcasts - stumbled upon the idea in pursuit of something far more old-fashioned: hot coffee.
As computer geeks at the University of Cambridge beavered away on research projects at the cutting edge of technology, one piece of equipment was indispensable to the entire team - the coffee percolator."
This excerpt is from a fascinating article you can find here.
19 years ago? Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 1993 was over 30 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI like my women like I like my coffee...slow roasted, finely ground
ReplyDeleteI put a live camera onto the Boeing internal networks in 1991. It monitored whether our boss's car was parked in his numbered spot or not -- because we could never figure out where he was.
ReplyDeleteWe've come a long way since Windows 95 and a lot of tech companies have come and gone. In 30 years we've gone from AOL to streaming on LED tvs.
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