It was only a month or two of downtime. :) The previous office that the fish tank was in decided to move fairly suddenly, so it took me a bit to get another tank setup.

Just to clarify, I didn't know of any other cameras besides the Trojan room coffee machine at that time... :)

Seems unclear to me. I created the fishcam and I can affirm that the Fishcam came on in July of 1994 and I didn't know of any other live cameras at that time. The Fogcam does not list a month of the year in which they started. :lou

Lynx is still available. ;)

I was/am a huge fan of Squeezeplay and the Squeezebox product lines. If Nest could combine the flexibility of Squeezebox, the simplicity of Sonos or Apple, and the reasonable prices of Google, they would have an amazing hit.

As the creator of the blink tag, I am deeply hurt and offended by your comment. I require a public apology, counseling for everyone involved and restitution for pain and suffering. Didn't you know that everyone in tech, even the blink tag creator, reads Slashdot?

Even easier with the current Firefox. There is a preference under "privacy" that will automatically delete all cookies when you exit.

I am the monster who unleashed the cookie beast into the wild. I wrote a short blog about this issue recently. The quick summary is that I think turning off 3rd party cookies for everyone will end up being a bad thing, especially for those of you who care about turning off 3rd party cookies. http://www.montulli-blog.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3rd-party-cookies-could-be.html

As the originator of the blink experiment I am happy to announce that after 19 years the time has finally come. We are officially stopping the blinking and will announce the result of the experiment after fully analyzing all the data. We thank all of you who have participated and especially those of you who have left comments and feedback. I don't want to spoil the final announcement, but early results point to a generally negative reception. (As well as several deaths) I am happy to announce that the popup window and marquee tag experiment will continue indefinitely. :lou

If you invest smartly and with some aggression you can make 6% annual after tax return. You must deal with inflation or else you have less money every year. ~3.5% annual inflation rate in the US. Subtract 3.5% and you have 2.5% that you can spend a year. With 5 million you can net $125,000 spendable income a year. Sure beats working, but you will not be in the 1%. If you want to be conservative in your investments, you will earn a lot less.

Seamonkey still supports one of the original Netscape Easter eggs "Ctrl-Alt-F" which takes you to the Fishcam. Reason enough to use it? :)

Shutterfly keeps photos in full res forever with no recurring charges. You can get a CD/DVD in the mail with all your photos if they are ever lost.

The original Netscape fishcam http://www.fishcam.com/ has gone through several iterations of cameras. It started on a SGI indy with a camera that came with the computer. It then moved to a portable video camera that was fairly old at the time, but had an analog RCA output and was encoded by the SGI. Now it runs on a Stardot NetCam SC5IR The Startdot camera is an embedded linux computer with a 5 MP video camera and high quality interchangeable lenses. The fact that it is a linux machine means you can do lots of creative things, like run a small web server, FTP, NFS, CIFS, scripts, etc. The most important aspect about a camera in my mind is its reliability. I don't want to reset the thing ever if possible. The Stardot has been running for more than a year uninterrupted. The big problem with Stardot cameras is the price. My SC5IR is over $1000 with all the accessories. A cheaper alternative is to set up a video server and use cheap security cameras with CGA resolution. You can get security cameras for $100 each and a cheap video card for ~$200.

Go Fishcam!