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The Trojan Room Coffee Machine - The official site. Includes the final image of the machine being switched off, a non-technical biography, and an audio copy of a 1994 radio report.
Demise of Early Online Star (a Coffee Machine) Puts Web's Evolution in Perspective - History of the coffee machine, covering the reasons for its invention, its impact on the web, and its demise.
CNN.com - Web Coffee Pot Goes off the Boil - Article on the origins, history, and demise of the coffee machine.
Philip Watson's Home Page - Includes an MPEG of the coffee pot, assembled by taking a snapshot of the machine every five minutes, for a day.
The Register: Do you Want to Own the Trojan Room Coffee Pot? - Article discussing the sale of the coffee pot on eBay.
The Register: World's First Webcam Coffee Pot to be Scrapped - Article discussing the reasoning behind the coffee pot camera, its history, and its end.
Farewell, Seminal Coffee Cam (Wired) - Reuters report announcing the end of the coffee pot webcam.
Guardian Unlimited - Plug Pulled on Web's Historic Coffee Pot - Report on the announcement that the first webcam was going to be taken offline, and a brief history of it.
CBC Radio - Pulling the Plug on World's First Webcam - Mary Lou's interview with Quentin Stafford-Fraser, in RealAudio format.

Trojan Room coffee pot - The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser - James Quentin Stafford-Fraser was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan room coffee pot: the first webcam. He wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the state of the coffee pot to be displayed on a screen.
Paul Jardetzky - Paul Jardetzky was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan room coffee pot. He wrote the server program which transmitted the state of the coffee pot to the XCoffee client program.
Coffee table - A coffee table is a style of long, low table which is designed to be placed in front of a couch, to support beverages (hence the name), magazines, books (especially coffee table books), and other small items to be used while sitting, such as coasters. Coffee tables are usually found in the living room or sitting room.
Utility room - A utility room is a room in a house, which is the descendant of the scullery. The utility room typically contains washing machine, tumble dryer, and other appliances which, in houses without such a room, would be in the kitchen or laundry.