Some of us remember first seeing the video phones on TV shows like “The
Jetsons” or even viewscreen communication on sci-fi shows like “Star
Trek.” Well, the future arrived long ago, and things like video chat via Skype
and Facetime are commonplace.
Webcams have been facilitating video communication across the internet for
years, and are nowhere near obsolete. We’ve all seen or used webcams for
security and surveillance, to communicate with friends, to check in on the dog
or the kids in kid or doggie daycare, or look at snuggly animals at the zoo
live. Webcams are still popular sellers at Geeks.com, and we offer
a wide range of choices.
A webcam is a camera that connects to your computer and allows communication
via video across the internet. The first use of a webcam dates back to Cambridge
University, in 1991. Science researchers in the labs didn’t necessarily want
to communicate face to face and lab to lab. They literally wanted to watch a
coffee pot boil. The researchers set up a camera spying on the coffee pot in the
break room. To save themselves from walking to the break room before coffee was
ready, they wired the camera to their computers so they could check the coffee
status from their desks. Eventually the researchers uploaded their coffee pot
feed to the Internet, and the first webcam was…brewed.
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