San Francisco State’s ‘FogCam’ is a part of tech history

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It’s been on the watch since before the internet was a thing.

Co-creator Jeff Schwartz was a graduate student in instructional technologies learning to script, or write instructions to control computer, when he came across the first-ever live webcam, which predated the internet — the “Trojan Room Coffee Pot cam” at the University of Cambridge. Students at Cambridge invented it so that researchers toiling away in their computer lab could check on whether or not the coffee maker in the next room was full or empty.

The fledgling device got its name because of the foggy view it shared — reflecting both the city’s famous misty weather and the low-resolution images the device produces.

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