On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:02:34AM -0700, Gus Wirth spake thusly: > I think I'm misunderstanding the definition of a webcam. Isn't a webcam > supposed to be a stand-alone device that connects to your network?
Yeah...I'm not sure when or how but a long time ago webcam became the name for any camera you hook up to your computer. The first camera connected to a personal computer that I ever saw write jpg's to a file which the webserver streamed out using a cgi. So it seemed natural to call it a webcam then. But then video conferencing started picking up steam and the popular IM clients started to integrate video support and the webcam name stuck. -- Tracy Reed Check out my blog and photos at http://tracyreed.org This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. Key fingerprint = D4A8 4860 535C ABF8 BA97 25A6 F4F2 1829 9615 02AD
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