Because it's more interesting than a coffee pot. I suppose that requires a bit of explanation. The very first webcam showed a picture of a coffee pot in Cambridge, England. It allowed students to see remotely if there was coffee in the pot. In the years that have passed, thousands of webcams have sprung into existence, all over the globe.
People seem fascinated with the ability to instantly look in on some remote part of the globe.
Ironically, after 50 years of broadcast television, the Internet is currently the only practical technology for delivering tele vision. Jon Tara is a software engineer and the originator of the San Diego BayCam. I don't see anything moving. You must use Netscape version 1.1 or higher to see the inline video clips. We do NOT currently support video images using Microsoft Internet Explorer.