The recent post in the Wikipedia community about the Trojan Room coffee pot got me thinking: are there any interesting webcams still running on the web? If so, do you have any favorites?

Aside from my local ski area I didn’t think I could name a single webcam still running.

  • BonerMan@ani.socialEnglish
    12·
    12 days ago

    There are many, especially on weather stations and some City outlooks. There are also some on mountains.

    Oh and the one from NASA that steams to YouTube.

  • Plum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    12 days ago

    USGS maintains some cool ones, and has a youtube page for when something rare happens at Mauna Kea or wherever.

    Scripps Institute has a bunch. The underwater camera at their pier in La Jolla, CA, is pretty active.

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      Oh man, the Scripps cams are making me want a beach vacation. It’s been too long since I’ve been to the ocean.

      • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        The real trick is to move to a high cost of living area where you’re super near but can hardly afford to make it there as often as you’d like.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    4·
    12 days ago

    Sure. I know like 5 in my city. One ontop of the main fire station, i think another one filming the inner city, several at a lake (which is a local recreation area). Someone used to capture his garden with a few trees and mostly the sky and clouds. And we used to have a bunch pointing at the traffic on the Autobahn, so you could watch traffic and brace for the ordeal before driving off to work. But they took the live feed down when the Russia/Ukraine war started. And of course ski resorts have them. You can turn on the TV and watch those ski resort webcams at like 6am on TV. Usually accompanied by some super annoying hillbilly music. 😆

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      so you could watch traffic and brace for the ordeal before driving off to work.

      I forgot about traffic cameras. My region’s highway department has webcams along the major mountain passes. This was good reminder; I will need to check them in a few weeks before I drive through the mountains!

      You can turn on the TV and watch those ski resort webcams at like 5am or 6am on TV

      This would actually be better than most of my local broadcast TV.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        This would actually be better than most of my local broadcast TV.

        Oh, well. It’s certainly better than the following program. I believe it’s followed by the news and then some documentaries about nature and places around the world. The other channels go downhill fast. Some “breakfast” TV show with some poor souls who have to get up early to do some meaningless happy talking, recipes and maybe invite someone who once met a celebrity… Followed by a re-run of yesterday’s local news and other random stuff that’s cheap or still in the VHS deck… Idk. I suppose it’s meant for some 95yo bedridden grandmas who can’t escape. I believe no sane person with working limbs would turn on any broadcast TV in the morning.

  • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    12 days ago

    I’ve not got any confirmed links to hand, but I know there are loads of wildlife webcams out there, ranging from cats in shelters waiting to be adopted, to rescued animals in rehabilitation, to birds of prey in their natural habitat, and everything in between.

    There are also webcams pointed at volcanos, and others broadcasting from random locations all over the world (weather cams, security cams, and so on), so you can get glimpses in to everyday life.

  • stelelor@lemmy.caEnglish
    43·
    12 days ago

    Security cameras and baby monitors are basically glorified webcams with cloud storage.