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1. WEBCAM DISCOVERY
By KRITIKA SHARMA

2.  “Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness
is definitely its father. ”
 The first webcam was made by lazy computer
scientists at Cambridge University who did not want to
walk across the room to check if the coffee pot is empty
or not.

3.  This coffee machine that was the inspiration for the
world’s first webcam was located in a corridor just in
the old computer lab at Cambridge University.
 In 1991, too many trips to an empty coffee pot led Dr.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky to invent
the world’s first webcam to help late night studiers and
programmers keep an eye on coffee levels.

4.  Once switched on, the camera would display a 129×129
pixel grayscale picture of the coffee pot at 1 frame per
second on the user’s desktop. Ironically, the “webcam”
actually predates the “web” by a couple of years, but as
soon as the World Wide Web went up, the service was
connected to the internet.
 That’s the journey of the great webcam discovery that
connects millions from across the globe.