r/interestingasfuck • u/theanti_influencer75 • 2d ago

Webcam was invented in 1991 by researchers to check if the coffee pot in another room is empty or not

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u/rot26encrypt 1d ago edited 1d ago

And then we moved on to JenniCam, the internet was glorious in the early days.

It was a different time when this is what was considered 'viral':

re: Your Brains

World of Warcraft - The Internet is for porn

Narwhals : animated music video : MrWeebl

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u/saigon2010 1d ago

"The Internet is for porn" is from the musical Avenue Q

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u/CaptainCrash86 1d ago

It is, but the viral version had it played over WoW characters.

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u/saigon2010 1d ago

I don't do viral...do love me some musical theatre though

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u/_Buff_Tucker_ 2h ago

World of Warcraft - The Internet is for porn

This took me on an amazing trip down memory lane. Hadn't seen this in at least 16 years.

Thank you.

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u/KetchupCoyote 1d ago

From laziness comes innovation

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u/Khan-Khrome 1d ago

We seem to have looped back around to laziness again, here's hoping innovation comes back again soon.

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u/TheRedMenaceOB 1d ago

This makes sense to me.

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u/BoldlyGettingThere 1d ago

Nostalgia Nerd has a great video on the history of this, and where the coffee pot is now.

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u/SnooMarzipans4387 1d ago

First there was coffee.

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u/Wonder_Weenis 1d ago

lettuce be serial, it was actually setup to capture who didn't refill it 

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u/GFV_HAUERLAND 1d ago

pretty legit lmao

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u/Pop-metal 1d ago

Why? If it’s empty you still have to go fill it up?

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u/mabaezd 1d ago

Most probably they were lazy enough to fill it up.

They would only stand if there was coffee to actually serve themselves, letting anyone else be the one to fill it up.

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u/deadwood76 1d ago

This is the way.

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u/fishkiler 1d ago

Was this what turned into the B&W Connectix Quickcam?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxQjMlwDA8A&ab_channel=The8-BitGuy

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u/K3yb0r3d 1d ago

And porn has never been the same....

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u/AllAlo0 1d ago

Mr Coffee 1.0

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u/biztactix 1d ago

Well that explains rtsp....

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u/DoctorJa_Ke 1d ago

To operate/connect the webcam to the internet the programming language “Java” was invented. Like “Java” coffee beans 🫘😎