The Trojan Room Coffee Pot is legendary as the subject of the world's first webcam. Created in 1991 by researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, the camera provided a live 128x128 grayscale image of the pot so staff could see if it was empty without walking to the breakroom. It gained international fame when it was connected to the nascent World Wide Web in 1993, eventually serving as a symbol of early internet culture and the lengths to which engineers will go for convenience. In memes, it is used to represent digital nostalgia, the 'original' version of modern monitoring tech, and the pure curiosity of the early web era.