The Trojan Room Coffee Machine History Internet
The Trojan Room Coffee Machine History Internet
The coffee machine was set up in 1991 so that researchers at the Computer Laboratory, the University of Cambridge, England could know there was coffee in the machine before they traveled through the seven floor building to the one coffee machine in the department.
One of the coffee pots, which starred on the web from October 1997 until March 2001, was auctioned on eBay, and fetched £3,350.
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The Trojan Room Coffee Machine - The official site. Includes the final image of the machine being switched off, a non-technical biography, and an audio copy of a 1994 radio report.
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The Register: Do you Want to Own the Trojan Room Coffee Pot? - Article discussing the sale of the coffee pot on eBay.
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Wikipedia: Trojan Room coffee pot - Encyclopedia article with history and sitings in popular culture.
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Philip Watson's Home Page - Includes an MPEG of the coffee pot, assembled by taking a snapshot of the machine every five minutes, for a day.
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CNN.com - Web Coffee Pot Goes off the Boil - Article on the origins, history, and demise of the coffee machine.
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Farewell, Seminal Coffee Cam (Wired) - Reuters report announcing the end of the coffee pot webcam.
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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.
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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.
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ABCNEWS.com: Plug Pulled on Web's Historic Coffeepot - Report by Leela Jacinto, looking at the coffeepot's practicality, invention, and rise to fame.
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Demise of Early Online Star (a Coffee Machine) Puts Web's Evolution in Perspective - History of the coffee machine, covering the reasons for its invention, its impact on the web, and its demise.
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