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  Trojan room coffee pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Trojan room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam.
The coffee pot was located in the Trojan Room, within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.
The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room by providing a live picture of the state of the coffee pot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trojan_room_coffee_pot   (228 words)

  
 The Rundown on Coffee Pot Part   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Coffee Pot is a Chat Group I started as part of the Pre-made Parade.
Coffee Pot" is brought out for the Log Drivers Cookout in early March.
The Omani coffee pot is yet one of another very unique designs that are a part of Oman's rich tradition.
www.the-coffee-source.com /coffee-pot-resources-1/coffee-pot-part.html   (596 words)

  
 RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0). L. Masinter.
Consumers want remote control of devices such as coffee pots so that they may wake up to freshly brewed coffee, or cause coffee to be prepared at a precise time after the completion of dinner preparations.
Coffee pots SHOULD use the Network Time Protocol [NTP] to synchronize their clocks to a globally accurate time standard.
Coffee pots on the Internet may be managed using the Coffee Pot MIB [CPMIB].
rfc.sunsite.dk /rfc/rfc2324.html   (2089 words)

  
 RFC 2324 (rfc2324)
Coffee brewing is an art, but the distributed intelligence of the web- connected world transcends art.
However, the use of coffee-scheme in various languages MAY be interpreted as an indication of the kind of coffee produced by the coffee pot.
In the earliest instance, coffee pot monitoring was an early (and appropriate) use of ATM networks [CAM].
www.cse.ohio-state.edu /cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2324.html   (2106 words)

  
 Quentin Stafford-Fraser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Quentin Stafford-Fraser was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan room coffee pot: the first webcam.
He wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the state of the coffee pot to be displayed on screen.
Quentin wrote the original VNC viewer for Windows and the first Windows VNC server while at the Olivetti Research Laboratory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quentin_Stafford-Fraser   (104 words)

  
 Coffee Pot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the 1974 issue of the "Tea and Coffee Trade Journal", Erna Knutsen first used the term 'specialty coffee' to describe these unique coffee beans that are produced in special microclimates with these distinctive, exceptional flavors.
Since the 1990's the growing popularity of the coffee houses and specialty gourmet coffee retailers, have made gourmet coffee one of the fastest growing food services markets in the world.
The coffee bean is more dependent on altitudes, climate and soil variation than with the grapes used for wine.
www.coffeexports.com /coffee/coffee-pot.html   (443 words)

  
 Coffee: Resources for home espresso
In general, be leary of a coffee mill with a "doser" or "dispenser." The coffee's flight path will typically involve an overnight layover in the doser compartment, and Murphy is sure the doser won't be the right size for your espresso machine, anyway.
Coffee extract is a delicious alternative in a work setting where there is neither the time nor the cleanup facilities to make decent coffee in one's office, but the communal machine makes incorrigible coffee.
Coffee should be stored in glass airtight containers in a cool, dark place, and protected from sharp swings in humidity and temperature.
www.math.columbia.edu /~bayer/coffee.html   (4703 words)

  
 Trojan Room Coffee Pot Biography
Some members of the 'coffee club' lived in other parts of the building and had to navigate several flights of stairs to get to the coffee pot; a trip which often proved fruitless if the all-night hackers of the Trojan Room had got there first.
In the Trojan Room there were several racks of simple computers used in the testing of our networks.
We fixed a camera to a retort stand, pointed it at the coffee machine in the corridor, and ran the wires under the floor to the frame-grabber in the Trojan Room.
www.lacasadejara.org /paginaweb/primercoffee   (483 words)

  
 Bringing Coffee Pot Direct to You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Just be aware that there are tons of related making coffee websites on the net and a lot of them offer so-so products that may not be what you really want.
The Coffee Pot, believed to be the only working steam railcar of its type, provides a...
The Coffee Pot was built in England in 1905, and from 1906...
www.the-coffee-source.com /coffee-pot-resources-1/coffee-pot.html   (743 words)

  
 Trojan - Trojan Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the Trojan Room there were several racks of simple computers used in the
Trojan.Ascetic.C is a Trojan horse that uses its own SMTP engine to send spam email to addresses gathered from the compromised computer.
In the context of computer software, a Trojan horse is a malicious program that is The term is derived from the classical myth of the Trojan horse.
publicdot.com /pd/trojan.html   (205 words)

  
 Web Shorts
The Coffee Cam, which is perhaps the web’s oldest exercise in voyeurism, has been sold.
The reason: They were tired of trekking across campus only to find the pot empty, and the webcam would let them know how full it was without their having to leave their desks.
The pot is sometimes referred to as the Trojan Room Coffee Pot after the room in which it sat.
www.medialifemagazine.com /news2001/aug01/aug13/2_tues/news8tuesday.html   (787 words)

  
 Shop1Stop4-Coffee History Pot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
lot of coffee, and when a fresh pot was brewed, it...
World's first Webcam coffee pot to be scrapped.
The world famous coffee pot in the Trojan Room of the Computer Science Department of Cambridge University is to be...
www.tea.shop1stop4.com /coffee/coffee-history-pot.html   (140 words)

  
 trojan room coffee pot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The world famous coffee pot in the Trojan Room of the Computer Science Department of Cambridge University is...
The world famous coffee pot in the Trojan Room of the Computer Science Department of Cambridge University is for...
In this coffee pot installation, the Trojan Room of Cambridge University laboratories...
www.coffeesearch.net /coffee/trojan-room-coffee-pot.html   (746 words)

  
 Web Sites Guide ODP > Computers> Internet> History> The Trojan Room Coffee Machine
Farewell, Seminal Coffee Cam (Wired) - Reuters report announcing the end of the coffee pot webcam.
Guardian Unlimited - Plug Pulled on Web's Historic Coffee Pot - Report on the announcement that the first webcam was going to be taken offline, and a brief history of it.
The Register: World's First Webcam Coffee Pot to be Scrapped - Article discussing the reasoning behind the coffee pot camera, its history, and its end.
www.websitesguide.info /Computers/Internet/History/The_Trojan_Room_Coffee_Machine   (350 words)

  
 Halfbakery: USB Coffee Mug
Sensors will also feed back on the USB the current temperature of the coffee so it can be displayed as a little icon (Lots of steam/ A wisp of steam/ No steam/ An iceberg) next to the clock on the taskbar/ menubar.
While thinking about warming a cup of coffee with a Palm Pilot, and presumably draining the batteries, I got to thinking that maybe we should be powering the computer off the heat in a cup of coffee.
Possibly the most famous coffee pot in the world: pivotal in the history of the WWW, seen by over 2 million people, has its own Google directory entry, and was sold for over £3,000.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/USB_20Coffee_20Mug   (1734 words)

  
 Trojan Room Coffee Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Click here for an up to date picture of the Trojan Room coffee machine.
The lights in the Trojan Room aren't always switched on, but we try to leave a small lamp pointing at the coffee pot so you can see it at night.
Apart from the fares to get here, you need to be a member of the coffee club before partaking.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk /coffee/coffee.html   (250 words)

  
 PARKER INFORMATION RESOURCES
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot At Cambridge University
I was working on ATM networks in a part of the Computer Lab known as the Trojan Room, (a name which, no doubt, causes some amusement to American readers).
An inexpensive coffee pot sitting in the corner of Cambridge University's computer laboratory gained cult status as what is believed to be the first live image shown on the fledgling World Wide Web in 1993.
www.parkerinfo.com /coffee.htm   (1022 words)

  
 LookSmart - Directory - Trojan Room Coffee Machine Webcam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Trojan Room Coffee Machine Webcam - Get articles documenting the Internet's first live image webcam that displayed the amount of coffee available.
Explains why a coffee pot was the main attraction.
Read the background and sale details of the famous coffee pot that achieved world celebrity status by appearing in the first Internet webcam site.
lsxml.looksmart.com /p/browse/us1/us317831/us317879/us65960/us4289720/us10032558   (400 words)

  
 INTERFACE - theories [analysis of reality interface]
Although images had existed in digital space before the Trojan Room Coffee Pot, the banal and apparently trivial Pot was likely the first "eye of cyberspace".
In summary, the Tojan Room Coffee Pot marked the beginning of an interesting field, trying to re-introduce a physical attribute back into the disembodied digital self.
A few years after the Trojan Room Coffee Pot, a much more interesting and bizzare implementation of this practice and theory was contructed -- "Steve's Wearable Wireless Webcam".
conceptlab.com /interface/theories/reality   (2254 words)

  
 Pot - harry potter, pottery barn, crock recipes, potassium
Golden Pot Public House and Restaurant, Eversley, Hampshire South of the River Blackwater and amidst beautiful woodland is the 300 year old Golden Pot An ivy-clad brick pub and restaurant run by landlord John Calder, it remains a stalwart of the
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www.buildingbits.com /pot   (564 words)

  
 DMOZIKES : Computers : Internet : History : The Trojan Room Coffee Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
History of the coffee machine, covering the reasons for its invention, its impact on the web, and its demise.
Includes an MPEG of the coffee pot, assembled by taking a snapshot of the machine every five minutes, for a day.
Reuters report announcing the end of the coffee pot webcam.
dmoz.sciagi.kom.pl /index.php?c=Computers/Internet/History/The_Trojan_Room_Coffee_Machine   (1303 words)

  
 The Shed | Pointless Webcams | Coffee Cam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The camera was installed in 1991 in the Trojan Room at the University of Cambridge's computer labs.
Unfortunately some of the members of the 'coffee club' worked in other parts of the building and had to walk down many flights of stairs to get a cup.
By now, the coffee revolution had hit Britain, and the coffee club decided to opt for a new espresso machine instead.
www.planetbods.org /comedy/webcam/coffee.live   (481 words)

  
 trojan coffee pot mosaic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
coffee pot in the Trojan room is empty" mikael nilsson (t92mn@hh.se) Feb 19 1995 at 6:34:49.
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot shows the state of a coffee pot in one of...
England A live picture of a coffee pot in a corner of the Trojan Room at Cambridge University...
www.coffeesearch.net /coffee/trojan-coffee-pot-mosaic.html   (681 words)

  
 Cofeepot - The Coffee Pot. Dare to be different! Wellnow that you are here. WELCOME! You Have just entered. The Coffee ...
Brewing up a potful of electronic voice phenomena by the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Trojan Room Coffee machine was finally switched off at 0954 UTC on Wednesday 22nd August 2001.
Coffee brews directly into the insulated stainless steel thermal, 4-cup carafe (20 fl.
www.destarter.com /coffeepot/cofeepot.html   (326 words)

  
 RFC 2324 (rfc2324) - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This document specifies a Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP), which permits the full request and responses necessary to control all devices capable of making the popular caffeinated hot beverages.
Additional coffee pot maintenance tasks might be accomplished by remote robotics.
However, remote control of coffee pots is important from outside the home.
www.faqs.org /rfcs/rfc2324.html   (2154 words)

  
 Trojan Room coffee pot sells for £3,350 | The Register
The coffee pot was the star of the first ever Webcam way back in 1993 and sat in the Trojan Room of the Computer Science Department of Cambridge University.
The pot sold wasn't even the original one, but it was the longest serving, having lasted 42 months in the job.
The nearest in cost is a Capresso C3000 'advanced fully automatic coffee and espresso center' with a 'pump-auto-cappuccino system' and 'the claris water care system'.
www.theregister.co.uk /2001/08/13/trojan_room_coffee_pot_sells   (496 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Netnews | Plug pulled on web's historic coffee pot
The world's most famous coffee machine - the subject of the first live webcam broadcast - is to be consigned to web history.
To net addicts yet to discover the more dynamic attractions of cyberspace, the Trojan coffee pot in Cambridge University's computer lab has held the same iconic status as Marconi's first crackling radio transmission or Gutenberg's first printed bible for almost a decade.
With only one coffee machine to serve the entire seven-storey lab, researchers at the university wrote a program known as XCoffee to allow them to monitor the pot's contents on their computer screens and save themselves a wasted journey if it was empty.
www.guardian.co.uk /internetnews/story/0,7369,447723,00.html   (272 words)

  
 Status-Q » Blog Archive »
The auction of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot has closed on eBay with a bid of over £3000, which will apparently go towards purchasing a new coffee machine in the new Computer Lab.
The coffee should be a bit better now.
This entry was posted on Sunday, August 12th, 2001 at 11:39 am and is filed under General.
www.statusq.org /archives/2001/08/12/32   (82 words)

  
 Directory - Computers: Internet: History: The Trojan Room Coffee Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guardian Unlimited - Plug Pulled on Web's Historic Coffee Pot  · iweb · Report on the announcement that the first webcam was going to be taken offline, and a brief history of it.
Farewell, Seminal Coffee Cam (Wired)  · iweb · Reuters report announcing the end of the coffee pot webcam.
The Register: World's First Webcam Coffee Pot to be Scrapped  · Article discussing the reasoning behind the coffee pot camera, its history, and its end.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=5803542   (337 words)

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