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The first webcam was pointed at a coffee pot.

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge set up a camera in 1991 so they could check whether the coffee pot in the Trojan Room was full. It went online in 1993.

Source: Trojan Room coffee pot (Wikipedia)

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