The Trojan Room Coffee Machine

The official site. Includes the final image of the machine being switched off, a non-technical biography, and an audio copy of a 1994 radio report.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

Guardian Unlimited - Plug Pulled on Web's Historic Coffee Pot

Report on the announcement that the first webcam was going to be taken offline, and a brief history of it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,447723,00.html

Demise of Early Online Star (a Coffee Machine) Puts Web's Evolution in Perspective

History of the coffee machine, covering the reasons for its invention, its impact on the web, and its demise.
http://www.conway.com/ssinsider/webpick/wp010319.htm

Philip Watson's Home Page

Includes an MPEG of the coffee pot, assembled by taking a snapshot of the machine every five minutes, for a day.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~pwatson/

CBC Radio - Pulling the Plug on World's First Webcam

Mary Lou's interview with Quentin Stafford-Fraser, in RealAudio format.
http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/asithappens/STEAM/webcam_030701.html

Farewell, Seminal Coffee Cam (Wired)

Reuters report announcing the end of the coffee pot webcam.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42254,00.html

Creators to Pull Plug on Original Webcam

Article from the Washington Post, by Peter S. Goodman, looking at the camera's history, reason for invention, and demise.
http://www.detnews.com/2001/technews/0104/03/a08-207163.htm

CNN.com - Web Coffee Pot Goes off the Boil

Article on the origins, history, and demise of the coffee machine.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/03/07/coffee.pot/

Trailing Edge: Coffee Cam

Article outlining the machine's history.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/trailing0601.asp

The Register: Do you Want to Own the Trojan Room Coffee Pot?

Article discussing the sale of the coffee pot on eBay.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/01/do_you_want_to_own/

The Register: World's First Webcam Coffee Pot to be Scrapped

Article discussing the reasoning behind the coffee pot camera, its history, and its end.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/07/worlds_first_webcam_coffee_pot/

ABCNEWS.com: Plug Pulled on Web's Historic Coffeepot

Report by Leela Jacinto, looking at the coffeepot's practicality, invention, and rise to fame.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1