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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Motherboard has an article about how how a WWW livestream of a fish tank helped shape the Web [vice.com]. Lou Montulli, then lead engineer at Netscape, started the Fishcam back in 1994. It’s still going after 24 years. It was originally inspired by the now-defunct Trojan Room coffee pot webcam at the University of Cambridge, in the UK, and was getting around 100k visitors per day back at its start when the Web was quite small and had very few users. The tank was used for a while as a testbed for various features and tools but exists now mainly as an end in itself.

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