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Had the pleasure of working in the same lab with Quentin later in the 90s. Not only a brilliant scientist but a very kind and pleasant person overall.

#Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #internethistory

@openculture are these the same people that made the first pepsi machine you could order from online?

@openculture and I had it open in my "browser". Told my enthusiastic colleague he was nuts pouring effort into this fancy gopher.
Bob was right.

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Having shared a coffee pot with a bunch of academics this makes perfect sense.

I’d like to hear more about how they decided who’d make the next pot tho 😉

@openculture I'm probably wrong but I seem to remember it was on a coke machine... Now that I think of it, I think you are right... I remember it clearly back in the 80's I believe.

@openculture I remember it well and fondly!

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When they shut the Webcam down in 2001, the last image broadcast was of a finger on its own power switch.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/switchoff.html

@openculture @cliffcheney I feel very old right now.

@openculture aw, I remember when that one went live.

@openculture Not surprising. Priorities are important.

@openculture Important application!