ORld-Wide Web, hardware, video> (WORld-Wide Web camera) Any video camera whose output is available fOR viewing via the InternetOR 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. [List?] (1999-01-11)