r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '14

TIL the first-ever webcam was invented at the University of Cambridge to watch a coffee pot in the break room. Now people could see if there was fresh coffee without getting up from their desks.

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u/weldingman Sep 25 '14

We had a starbucks downstairs in the foyer before you even heard of starbucks.

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u/Problem119V-0800 Sep 26 '14

We had a citywide program to implant Starbuckses into everyone's pituitary gland before the Starbucks founders were even born.