{"id":133,"date":"2004-02-25T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/physical-computing\/133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:00:24","slug":"caffeine-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/133\/","title":{"rendered":"caffeine online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www-2.cs.cmu.edu\/~coke\/\" target=\"_other\" rel=\"noopener\">Coke machine at CMU<\/a>. One of the early networked appliances. When it&#8217;s working, you can check it to see whether there are cold cokes in the machine.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Yosef Birnboim for the link.<\/p>\n<p>See also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cl.cam.ac.uk\/coffee\/coffee.html\" target=\"_other\" rel=\"noopener\">Trojan Room Coffee Machine<\/a>, which was the first web cam. It came online in 1991, and went off in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Anees Assali for the link.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networked objects\" rel=\"tag\">networked objects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networks\" rel=\"tag\">networks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/pcomp\" rel=\"tag\">pcomp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/physical computing\" rel=\"tag\">physical computing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Yosef Birnboim for the link.See also the Trojan Room Coffee Machine, which was the first web cam&#8230;.  The coff-e-mail project at Texas A&#38;M follows in the spirit of the Trojan Room Coffee Machine.Thanks to Anees Assali for the link.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/133\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">caffeine online<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networks","category-physicalcomputing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}