The founders of the webcam say it is 'a throwback to the early days of the internet when anyone could do anything'.
In a tweet from the FogCam account, the pair said:"After 25 years, FogCam is shutting down forever at the end of August.
"Webdog & Danno thank our viewers and San Francisco State University for their support over the years. The internet has changed a lot since 1994, but FogCam will always have a special place in its history."Mr Schwartz, who goes by Webdog, told local news website SFGate that he and his colleague were studying computer science when they set up the webcam, which updates every 20 seconds."People liked it so we kept it going.
The device was pointed at a coffee pot in the main computer lab known as the Trojan room, with the team setting it up to keep track of how much caffeine was left. Reminiscing on the webcam in 2012, Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser told the BBC:"They would often turn up to get some coffee from the pot, only to find it had all been drunk."The use of webcams become widespread as the quality improved and they became cheaper, allowing people the novelty of making their first Skype video call, or filming their video game exploits.
The now ubiquitous front-facing smartphone camera is somewhat of an evolution of the concept, thanks to apps like FaceTime.
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