The Coke machine at CMU. One of the early networked appliances. When it’s working, you can check it to see whether there are cold cokes in the machine.
Thanks to Yosef Birnboim for the link.
See also the Trojan Room Coffee Machine, which was the first web cam. It came online in 1991, and went off in 2001.
The coff-e-mail project at Texas A&M follows in the spirit of the Trojan Room Coffee Machine.
Thanks to Anees Assali for the link.
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