The first webcam was created because a bunch of computer engineers were too lazy to walk over to the coffee machine.
by Right-Assignment3759
The first webcam was created because a bunch of computer engineers were too lazy to walk over to the coffee machine.
by Right-Assignment3759
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xcoffee 🥵
I did not know that!
Ah yes, the Trojan Room coffee pot
imagine inventing the internet webcam just because you didn’t want to walk to an empty coffee pot
I would have bet that was to see who was responsible for burning popcorn in the microwave
Imagine explaining to them that one day people would use webcams to watch other people eat.
Necessity is the mother of all invention!
Laziness invented livestreams.
Necessity is the mother…something…
The simple joys of the World Wide Web (which is kind of a bummer no one calls it that anymore).
I dont get it.
Was the coffee pot a meeting spot they were supposed to be at?
I don’t know why, but this image always triggers that sound effect from the background scientist from halflife, “Do you know who has been eating all the donuts?”.
It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention, but I think more often than not, it was laziness.
Where they using coffee script for it?
they weren´t lazy to walk to the machine, they just wanted to know if the pot was empty beforehand.
– we have a sophisticated system to always know if the coffee machine is empty from our desk
– wow! it must be a really expensive electronic device with lots of sensors and displays!
– we point a camera to it