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Programmers from Cambridge to once again confirm the old wisdom that laziness drives progress. In 1991-m to year the staff of the computer laboratory at Cambridge University did not want to go down the hall to the coffee machine, to see whether there's coffee, and they installed it on against her camera, which was connected to the computer, and through him made the distribution to other devices, and began to see if there is more coffee, not looking up from the computer.
The new development became interesting for the press and a note about inventions published in the journal Comm-Week 28 January 1992. Suddenly a new idea is instantly taken up by the manufacturers of computer components.



Black-and-white picture of a coffee pot was broadcast on the desktops of users for ten years, until my camera was disabled on August 22, 2000. Interestingly, a few years of historical "Trojan coffee pot" sold on eBay for £ 3350.



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