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Off-topic, but >Quentin Stafford-Fraser (co-inventor of the webcam). How can you be the inventor of the webcam? What is it even, besides from a digital camera
by kristiandupont 6y ago
Off-topic, but
>Quentin Stafford-Fraser (co-inventor of the webcam).
How can you be the inventor of the webcam? What is it even, besides from a digital camera? Did he invent that?
- bryanrasmussen 6y agohe has a wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Stafford-Fraser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Stafford-Fraser He was one of the team that created the first webcam: the Trojan room coffee pot: Quentin pointed a camera at the coffee pot and wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the image of the pot to be displayed on a workstation screen. When web browsers gained the ability to display images, the system was modified to make the coffee pot images available over HTTP and thus became the first webcam.
- timthorn 6y agoIt wasn't even a digital camera for that system - it was an analogue CCTV camera hooked up to a framegrabber. Digital cameras weren't really a thing at that time.