In 1994, Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong fired up the San Francisco FogCam. For 25 years, it kept a constant vigil on the San Francisco State University campus, making the FogCam the longest operating webcam in history. (The first webcam, the Trojan Room coffee pot cam, went online in 1991 and shut down in 2001.) At the end of the month, Schwartz and Wong will turn off the FogCam. From SF Gate:
“Our webcam is a throwback to the early days of the Internet when anyone could do anything,” Schwartz said.
The webcam will be switched off on August 30, but Schwartz says the website itself will be kept up “for sake of posterity.”