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I kind of hate that the term webcam now generally refers to a USB camera (that is almost exclusively used for zoom). Makes searching for the old-style web cams

• nocoiner 4y ago
  Oh man, this comment dredged up some deep memories for me. When I first got on the internet in the mid-90s (‘94 maybe?), one of the first web pages I remember finding was the “Peeping Tom Homepage” - a list of webcams available at the time maintained by a computer club at a university in Sweden. I attribute the slightly salacious site title to either irony or a less-than-perfectly-idiomatic command of English, since all the linked sites were completely innocent scenes like this. I spent a lot of time looking at pictures from around the world. Needless to say, I miss that internet a lot.
  • actionfromafar 4y ago
    I was almost there and I think it could have been the very idea of spying on people anywhere was kind of scandalous. It's not what anyone would expect in public. (There was CCTV of course but the expectation was that it would be on a dusty VHS tape on a shelf somewhere.)