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1991
The first webcam was pointed at a coffee pot.
The camera widely remembered as the first webcam watched a coffee pot at Cambridge in 1991, initially over a local network. It became accessible through the World Wide Web in November 1993.
The first webcam was pointed at a coffee pot.
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1964
The first computer mouse was made of wood.
The first mouse prototype in Douglas Engelbart’s research program was built in 1964 with a wooden body. Engineer Bill English constructed the device, which tracked movement using two perpendicular wheels.
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1947
One of the most famous computer bugs was an actual moth.
A real moth was found in Harvard’s Mark II computer in 1947 and preserved in its logbook. It became a famous computer bug, but it did not originate the engineering term “bug.”
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