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PG_Kelly (pgkelly@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2019 14:24:35 EDT PG_Kelly

SF is home to the world's oldest webcam. After 25 years, it's being switched off. - SFGate https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/SF-worlds-oldest-webcam-live-stream-Twitch-14341998.php
"Now, it's the oldest continually operating webcam in the world, and has been running for 25 years. But at the end of August, Schwartz and Wong are pulling the plug."
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  "As far as I know, they were the first cats live on the Internet," Jeff Schwartz says. He's talking about Petunia and Web, the cats that used to live in his Mission District apartment. Schwartz came up with the idea to point a webcam at his pets while he was away at school. He eventually figured out how to connect his webcam to the Internet over the phone lines -- it took one picture of his furry companions every minute. 1995 was a simpler time. But that was just a side project. A year earlier, Schwartz and his cohort Dan Wong had already begun running the San Francisco FogCam, named for the shrouded view it offered of the San Francisco State University campus where they were taking computer science classes.

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