The San Francisco FogCam!

The world's oldest webcam. Live San Francisco views since 1994.

FogCam sprang to life in 1994 as a student project in the Department of Instructional Technologies at San Francisco State University. Fogcam! is the oldest continuously operating webcam in the world.

Wikipedia confirms we are the oldest operating webcam. You can even see FogCam on Wikipedia's list of oldest websites.

We've slightly changed campus locations a few times as necessary over the years, to prevent being shut down by the university.

Historically, the first webcam actually predated the web. The Trojan Room coffee pot cam at the University of Cambridge came online way back in 1991. It was retired in 2001.

News articles about FogCam:

• California University Steps In to Save Beloved Webcam - NY Times
• 9 Website Pioneers - CNN Tech
• WWW turns 25: A look back at the Internet's early days
• Golden Gate [X]press 10th Anniversary of Fogcam (archived version)

FogCam! created by Jeff Schwartz (aka Webdog) and Dan Wong (aka Danno).
Operated by Academic Technology at San Francisco State University.

Danno still has some amusing 1995 FogCam pictures on his website.

Last updated: March 23, 2021