World-Wide Web, hardware, video (World-Wide Web camera) Any

video camera whose output is available for viewing via the

Internet or an intranet. Typically a webcam would be a

slow-scan CCD video camera connected to a video capture card

in a computer. Images from the camera are captured

periodically and made available on a web page. In 1999 there

are hundreds of webcams in operation around the world showing

everything from bedrooms to traffic.