The world’s oldest operational webcam is still watching over San Francisco State University campus after 28 years.
FogCam was set up in 1994, long before the internet. It was developed by San Francisco State University students Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong as a class project.
The students called it ‘FogCam’ because of the foggy view it offered due to its placement inside Burk Hall and low image resolution—no more than 320 by 200 pixels—according to SF Gate.
In August 2019, a notice on the FogCam website announced that after 25 years, it was shutting down forever. Soon, an outcry from the public and the #SaveTheFogCam social media campaign, coupled with international offers of donations to keep the FogCam alive, turned the tables….