With software packages such as Webcam32, novice computer users are finding new ways to keep an eye on other things. Dr. Cross says people are still playing with ideas. What we have here is a new technology without a settled use. We don't yet know why most people use it, either to transmit or view. And, if we did, we don't know whether a settled pattern of use will emerge to supersede whatever is going on now.
Many Webcams provide pedestrian shots of people working at desks.
Scottish researchers have mounted a live camera on the shores of the lake where the creature of legend reportedly was first sighted. On June 5, a Galveston couple said they spotted the monster while watching on their home computer. We watched until she swam off screen. I saw what I saw with my own two eyes, and it is real. Savvy Net surfers have taken to their computers to check traffic before venturing out.