This post references the MetaCamPage, which was a running featurette of this website for several years. It's been offline for decades now, but originally it displayed a single snapshot taken at regular intervals from a webcam mounted to my computer's monitor. Although it sounds inconceivable, this was a very common practice around the turn of the century. (The MetaCamPage would also sometimes show webcam images from other bloggers' webcams and/or a grid of photos from other bloggers.)

webcam image of Ryan ToberThis rather candid photo of Ryan shows exactly why I created the MetaCamPage.

2024-01-31: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

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