Who invented the web cam?

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No one knows who the exact creator of the web cam was, but the first one was discovered in the computer science department in Cambridge University. This particular webcam became inactive on the 22nd of August, 2001

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Hard to say who invented it, but supposedly this was the first webcam: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

It was used to check a coffee pot in the Trojan Room at the University of Cambridge.

 

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