The world’s oldest webcam was nearly shut down five years ago this month. The San Francisco FogCam is named for the shrouded view it offers of the San Francisco State University campus where the cam’s creators were taking classes. It was launched in 1994.  After the media covered the pending shutdown of FogCam, the university decided to step in to “preserve and run it indefinitely.” Fogcam is the oldest continuously operating webcam in the world. The first-ever live webcam that actually pre-dated the Internet was the Trojan Room Coffee Pot cam. It was invented by researchers at the University of Cambridge, hoping to make their afternoon caffeine fix a little more convenient. Many of them worked in different labs on different floors, making it impossible to tell if their trek to the coffee pot would leave them dismayed to find it empty. When they connected the cam to the Internet in 1993, tech enthusiasts around the world grew fascinated. It retired in 2001.