[ih] internet-history Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2

[David L. Mills]

Bob,

Most of us on the DARTnet/CAIRN projects pointed cameras outside our 
office windows and left them running 24/7 with nv. I'm not sure who was 
the first, but about that time NASA was broadcasting shuttle launches on 
the MBONE, UC Berkely was broadcasting a seminar series and then what 
were surely webcams popped up all over the world on the MBONE.

Dave

Bob Braden wrote:

>I don't know about the name, but AFAIK Dave Mills was the first person
>to point a camera at something and continuously multicast it over the
>Internet.  I think he started as soon as Van Jacobson's nv program
>became available, maybe 1991?  In Dave's case, the "something" was
>the campus walk outside his office at UDel, showing students
>hurrying/lounging by.  Shortly after, I think (though I may have
>this reversed), Steve Casner began multicasting a scene of Marina
>del Rey from ISI.
>
>Bob Braden
>