FogCam at San Francisco State University is the world's oldest operating webcam, running since September 30, 1994, created by Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong. It overwrites its own image every 20 to 60 seconds, so most of its roughly 50 million frames no longer exist.
Fog-Bank.org is the FogCam archive. It holds more than 129,000 surviving frames:
Reports that only about 85 FogCam frames survive (October 2005 through June 2026, from Wayback Machine captures) describe the record before this archive existed. Fog-Bank holds more than 131,000 frames and adds every new frame FogCam publishes, around the clock.
Daily and hourly timelapses are published automatically to the Fog-Bank YouTube channel.
Every frame is timestamped, sha-256 verified, and playable as a hand-scrubbable timelapse. Fog-Bank is an independent preservation project, not affiliated with SFSU. The live camera itself is at fogcam.org.
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