The first webcam was invented to watch...coffee?

[00:00] The world's first webcam was built for [00:02] my favorite coffee. The world's first [00:04] webcam wasn't built for security, [00:06] meetings, or streaming. It was built [00:08] because engineers were too lazy to walk [00:11] downstairs. Back in the early '90s, the [00:13] researchers at Cambridge had one [00:14] problem. The coffee pot kept running [00:16] empty. So, people would have to walk all [00:18] the way to the break room to find [00:21] nothing there. So, instead of doing that [00:22] over and over again, they just pointed a [00:24] camera at the coffee pot itself. They [00:26] then streamed this to their computers, [00:28] and yes, that was the end invention. [00:30] What a blurry black and white feed just [00:32] to check the coffee was ready. And [00:34] interestingly enough, this tiny idea [00:37] became one of the first live streams in [00:39] history. Sometimes world-changing [00:41] technology starts from one very human [00:43] thing, and that's not wanting to waste a [00:46] trip.