Error 418: The first webcam

The famous coffee pot in the "Trojan Room" at Cambridge became a global sensation during the early world wide web. People from all over the world tuned in to watch a grainy, black-and-white image of a coffee carafe in England. The very first "live streaming".  

XCoffee was the software that was written to capture an image every second just so the two computer scientists could check the coffee level in the breakroom from their desks. The webcam ran for 10 years, and was finally switched off in 2001. The famous coffee pot (Krups) was auctioned off to the German magazine "Der Spiegel". 

Today we set this up again, or one very like it, to revisit the commons that were breakrooms, the laziness that invented new software, and the coffee conversation that fuels ideas like the world wide web.

Livestreaming everyday from the GIG makerspace, in the lowest resolution possible with todays internet. For high-resolution, stop by the coffee pot in person!