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Actually, This is how the webcam was invented. 

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At Cambridge University, they were sick of checking the coffee pot level, so Quentin Stafford-Frasier wrote client software for a greyscale 128x128 camera hooked up to an acorn archemedes computer.  Paul Jardetzky wrote the server program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

Technology always comes full circle.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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