A Condensed History of the Surfing Webcam

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Black-and-white ink timeline: 1991 coffee-pot cam, 1996 pier surf cam, and a modern locked phone showing the same wave, with a thruster shortboard surfer.

Surf cams trace back to a 1991 Cambridge coffee-pot camera, and Surfline put its first one on Huntington Beach Pier in 1996. Thirty years and 1,250-plus cameras later, Surfline says all its live cams are now Premium-only, worldwide.

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