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by incanus77
1784 days ago
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When I went to engineering school in 1995, most of the computers on campus were UNIX machines… Sun SPARC in the dorm, IBM AIX machines, a few others. But the fastest and shiniest by far were the SGI IRIX machines. They not only had a webcam built in, but ran at (IIRC) 200MHz. These all were my introduction to not only UNIX, but also the internet. I first got ImageMagick compiled and running on an Indy, and later, even played DOOM in the lab. <3 |
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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 :)