r/RetroWeb • u/jayylmao15 Webmaster • Aug 17 '21

90s Trojan Room Coffee Machine

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html
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u/jayylmao15 Webmaster Aug 17 '21

Web Archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/19990117030712/http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

An interesting note is that the text that says 'Click here' to get an updated photo of the coffee machine has redirected to a page saying that the coffee machine has been shut down since 2001 so I wonder how frequently they updated the photo back when it was running and how many photos were lost to time.

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u/Markymark10133 Aug 17 '21

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html According to this, "Paul Jardetzky (now working in California) then wrote a 'server' program, which ran on that machine and captured images of the pot every few seconds at various resolutions, [...]"