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.

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