The first webcam was created at Cambridge University to monitor a coffee pot.
Why it is true
In 1991, researchers in the computer science department were tired of walking to the break room only to find the pot empty. They set up a simple camera that took three pictures a minute and sent them to computers on the network.
Source: Cambridge Univ
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