<story><title>Trojan Room Coffee Pot</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mastazi</author><text>The early Internet was magical.&lt;p&gt;The fact that you could see a place through a camera, in real time and whenever you wanted, on the other side of the world, was magical.&lt;p&gt;Before webcams, only large television networks had the technical ability to do that, through an extremely expensive satellite connection.&lt;p&gt;Now, 16-year-old-me could do it from my bedroom.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trojan Room Coffee Pot</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>triyambakam</author><text>Amazing how wanting to avoid an empty coffee pot led to the invention of the webcam. I had no idea.</text></comment>