Trojan room coffee pot

The world's first webcam was pointed at the Trojan room coffee pot at the computer science department of Cambridge University. The camera was installed on a local network in 1991. Using the X Window System protocol, Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote the client and Paul Jardetzky wrote the server. The camera was connected to the Internet in 1993 by Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson. On August 22, 2001 the pot (actually the fourth or fifth seen on-line) was finally switched off, and auctioned on eBay for £33503350.

See also

• Utah teapot

External Links

• The Trojan Room Coffee Machine
• Trojan Room Coffee Pot resources