Webcams: connecting you to others, and to coffee

The use of webcams is quite obvious: the camera, connected to your home computer, transmits the image from your computer to the internet and from the internet it can be accessed by the viewer through his or her home computer. And if the viewer owns his or her own webcam, then images can be sent back and forth between both users. They then have their own mini, live web conference. But the idea behind webcam technology did not come from the business world wishing to set up a venue for long-distance conferencing, nor was it developed for the government in order to communicate with foreign dignitaries or ambassadors across oceans and continents. Internet video camera technology was first created because of coffee, or more specifically because of a coffee pot.

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What can Webcams do for You?

Since their introduction in 1991, internet cameras, or webcams, have become a part of popular culture and its vocabulary. Even though the first use of a webcam was primarily for convenience (in Cambridge University the original webcam was kept focused on a coffee pot in order for the employees to know when there was coffee available and when there was none), now webcams offer a great number of services. Internet cameras can be implemented for video conferencing, video security, gaming, or even as a venue for internet users to view live streams of places around the world. From its humble beginnings then, the webcam has definitely grown in how its technology is taken advantage of. Still though, one of the most popular uses of the webcam is to simply link two people toget...

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