Archiving The World’s Oldest Webcam Feed
Archiving The World’s Oldest Webcam Feed No comments by: Zoe Skyforest October 1, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running. Installed at San Francisco State University, it’s been slowly uploading a new image to the web every 20 to 60 seconds or so since September 30, 1994. Very few of those images have ever been saved, but [Justin Earl] has come along to fix that with Fog-Bank. [Justin] was eager to have top-notch coverage of the FogCam, so set up four separate catchers across three separate networks to scrape images from the feed.
- ▪Archiving The World’s Oldest Webcam Feed No comments by: Zoe Skyforest October 1, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running.
- ▪Installed at San Francisco State University, it’s been slowly uploading a new image to the web every 20 to 60 seconds or so since September 30, 1994.
- ▪Very few of those images have ever been saved, but [Justin Earl] has come along to fix that with Fog-Bank. [Justin] was eager to have top-notch coverage of the FogCam, so set up four separate catchers across three separate networks to scrap
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Archiving The World’s Oldest Webcam Feed No comments by: Zoe Skyforest October 1, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running. Installed at San Francisco State University, it’s been slowly uploading a new image to the web every 20 to 60 seconds or so since September 30, 1994. Very few of those images have ever been saved, but [Justin Earl] has come along to fix that with Fog-Bank. [Justin] was eager to have top-notch coverage of the FogCam, so set up four separate catchers across three separate networks to scrape images from the feed. He runs one on his own server, one on his home machine, and two small programs running on Cloudflare. Each catcher reports the time it grabbed a fresh image from the site.
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