from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
webcam
<World-Wide Web, hardware, video> (World-Wide Web camera) Any
video camera whose output is available for viewing via the
{Internet} or an {intranet}. Typically a webcam would be a
slow-scan {CCD} video camera connected to a video capture card
in a computer. Images from the camera are captured
periodically and made available on a web page. In 1999 there
are hundreds of webcams in operation around the world showing
everything from bedrooms to traffic.
[List?]
(1999-01-11)