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What We're Reading: How a Pot of Coffee Started an Imaging Revolution

By David Schonauer   Thursday February 13, 2025

Before baby monitors and viral livestreams, a glitchy black-and-white camera pointed at an empty coffee pot ignited an internet revolution, notes Fstoppers, which tells the story of the birth of the webcam at Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory. It’s a tale of scientific discovery driven “by a thirst for caffeine” and …

Read the whole story at Fstoppers.


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