That webcam is the very reason why I wrote that first version of live streaming video on the web :)
It was the first camera that came with a computer and it had a pretty easy interface from C so that + a small embedded HTTP server and we were off to the races.
The funniest bit to me is still that people simply would not believe they were looking at a live image from the other side of the world. More than once I had to go in front of the cam and wave at people or show them some tekst :)
Eventually I automated that by putting a remote controlled fan + light (and a mobile of paper cranes) in front of it, but then people would claim that I was faking it. Tough crowd :)
It was the first camera that came with a computer and it had a pretty easy interface from C so that + a small embedded HTTP server and we were off to the races.
The funniest bit to me is still that people simply would not believe they were looking at a live image from the other side of the world. More than once I had to go in front of the cam and wave at people or show them some tekst :)
Eventually I automated that by putting a remote controlled fan + light (and a mobile of paper cranes) in front of it, but then people would claim that I was faking it. Tough crowd :)