It's interesting to note that this coffee machine (and in fact, the camera setup) predates the web
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It started back in the dark days of 1991, when the World
Wide Web was little more than a glint in CERN's eye
says the history of the coffee pot.
The pot of coffee can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/xvcoffee as well as in the Trojan Room, Cambridge University (in real life), with a web page at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html.
1: Thanks
yossarian!