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Published on February 21, 2025 11:11:33 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqlDsfTC6g

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Head to https://squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD ~ The Trojan Room Coffee pot story is interesting, firstly, because it's a story about the first ever webcam. Secondly, because it's about a coffee pot that has been with us since the dawn of the internet, and to this day, remains with us.

I thought it was such an interesting topic that I popped over to Germany to see it in the flesh, and then decided to interview the man responsible for bringing it to us in the first place.

I hope you enjoy it as much as my round trip to make it :D

Huge thank you to Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser for taking part in this documentary.

Patreon users can watch the full interview with Quentin, along with vlogs of the museum and computer lab at https://www.patreon.com/nostalgianerd

You can read the web article version of this video, including references and links at https://www.nostalgianerd.com/the-longest-live-streamer-ever/

⌚ Timings⌚
00:00-02:44 Introduction
02:44-08:49 Trojan Room Coffee Pot
08:49-09:26 SqSp
09:26-22:50 Trojan Room Coffee Pot
22:50-27:12 Der Spiegel Years
27:12-28:30 Heinz Nixdorf Years
28:30-29:27 Back to the lab
29:27-30:10 Credits

🔗 Video Links🔗
David Attenborough Buildinghttps://www.cambridgeconservation.org/about/the-david-attenborough-building/..
Quentin's Websitehttps://quentinsf.com/coffeepot/t/
Trojan Room Coffee Pot Timelinehttps://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/timeline.html..
Trojan Room Coffee Machinehttps://web.archive.org/web/19971210230542/https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html..
Coffee Machine Biographyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050130093605/http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html..
Philip Watson's MPEG Testhttps://web.archive.org/web/20060220170752/http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~pwatson/..
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocolhttps://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324..
Der Spiegel Webcamhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160624140129/http://www.spiegel.de/static/popup/coffeecam/cam1.html..
Der Spiegelhttps://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/trojan-room-coffee-machine-virtuelles-museum-fuer-den-ersten-star-des-internets-a-189302.html..
Heinz Nixdorf Camera Bloghttps://blog.hnf.de/der-kaffee-ist-fertig/..
Heinz Nixdorf Live Camerahttps://kaffee.hnf.de/mjpg/video.mjpgpg

Ken's Freezerhttps://web.archive.org/web/19980416100044/http://kens.com:80/freezercam.html..
You disgust mehttps://web.archive.org/web/19970611015821/www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~nickbk/web_camera/..

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