EarthCam

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EarthCam
EarthCam logo.svg
EarthCam in Temple Bar, Dublin.jpg
An EarthCam in Dublin, Ireland
Type of site
Webcam Network
Available inEnglish
OwnerBrian Cury
Created byBrian Cury
URL earthcam.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedMarch 27, 1996;29 years ago (1996-03-27)
Current statusActive

EarthCam, Inc. is an American company based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, that provides webcam technology and services. Founded in 1996 by Brian Cury, the company's website, EarthCam.com, provides a network of live webcams from locations around the world.

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The company's business is providing webcam technology and managed services for business and government applications, with its consumer-facing website serving as a network of thousands of cameras.

History

EarthCam was founded in 1996 by Brian Cury. By 1999, The New York Times reported that 20 people per day were adding their webcams to the site. [1] In 2006, the website won a Webby Award in the Tourism category. [2]

For New Year's Eve 1999, the site hosted an event featuring 100 cameras from around the world to broadcast celebrations for the turn of the millennium. [1]

In October 2011, EarthCam donated and installed five cameras in the torch of the Statue of Liberty. The cameras provide views from a location that had been closed to the public since 1916. [3] [4]

For the 2016 New Year's Eve celebration, EarthCam streamed the first 4K video of the Times Square Ball drop on YouTube. [5]

Notable projects and webcams

EarthCam operates cameras at public landmarks, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C., [6] the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, [7] and London's Abbey Road. [8]

The company has also used its cameras to produce time-lapse videos of major construction projects. A notable example is a time-lapse showing the 10-year construction of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, created from images captured at the site from 2001 to 2011. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Catherine Greenman, Who, What, When, Where and Y2K; The Stay-at-Homes Have Plenty of Chances to See the Parties, or Problems, Unfold, The New York Times , December 30, 1999. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  2. ↑ "Webby Nominees". Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
  3. ↑ Jonathan Allen, Statue of Liberty to sport webcams from its torch, Reuters, October 26, 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  4. ↑ Kitty Bean Yancey, Statue of Liberty turns 125, gets webcams, USA Today , October 27, 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  5. ↑ "New Year's Eve - Times Square in 4K – EarthCam". YouTube.com. 2016-12-31. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  6. ↑ "EarthCam - Build the Dream". Archive.is. 2012-08-04. Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2016-08-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ↑ "Live Webcam | Flight 93 National Memorial". Honorflight93.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  8. ↑ "Crossing Cam". Abbey Road. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  9. ↑ "World Trade Center Cams". EarthCam.com. 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2016-08-17.

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