Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NzmwP1ALQs

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Convillious on 2026-08-11 01:31:17+00:00.

FogCam is one of the oldest webcams on the Internet, first launched at San Francisco State University in 1994 by students Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong. Originally created as a simple experiment to let people remotely see what was happening on campus, the camera has continued operating for more than three decades. It periodically captures an image of the university and makes it available online, providing a remarkably simple way to observe a small part of San Francisco from anywhere in the world.

It predates major parts of the modern Internet and has survived enormous changes in computing and online culture. While most early websites and Internet projects disappeared as technology evolved, FogCam remained largely unchanged.

I have taken the liberty of running an automated script on a NAS I own to capture the every frame of FogCam that happens. I have 75,000 frames so far over 27 days.

The reason I felt like doing this was preservation, but also because all of the earliest frames from the 1990s and early 2000s are gone or unarchived and it would've been so cool to see that.

Something cool that happens in this video is you can watch a construction zone get finished.