Built by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, the camera fed a live image of the Trojan Room coffee pot to every desktop on the internal network, sparing people a wasted trip. It kept running until August 22, 2001, when the lab moved buildings and switched the camera off for good. The actual coffee pot was later auctioned on eBay for £3,350 to a German news magazine, which put it straight back into service brewing coffee.