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a one-eyed witness that turned bedrooms into broadcasts and meetings into hostage situations
means A small video camera that streams or captures images through a computer, typically for live video calls, conferencing, or broadcasting over the internet.
from A straightforward 1990s portmanteau of 'web' (from World Wide Web) and 'camera,' born alongside the early internet. Fittingly, one of the first was pointed at a coffee pot in a Cambridge University lab so researchers could see whether the carafe was empty before walking over — the original webcam existed purely to spare people a wasted trip down the hall.
- first feed
- watched a Cambridge coffee pot so nobody walked in vain
- forgotten light
- the green dot has ended more careers than scandals
- resolution gap
- costs hundreds yet still makes you look haunted
- tape solution
- Zuckerberg covers his with tape, and so should you
- meeting era
- normalized pants-optional professionalism worldwide
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