Sharp Internet ViewCam: the world's first MPEG-4 video camera, coming June or August 1999. This site is still up! (global.sharp)

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This site is still up after 25 years, if you can believe that.

Internet Archive's snapshot of the site from November 2000

Cathode Ray Dude's review of the device

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sharp is a TLD? Holy cow.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It certainly wasn't back when this camera was new. Also, some other company TLDs…

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ICANN,
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your TLDs to the night

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That is one page on the Sharp website. The Sharp website still being up is not surprising. That product page still being there means that Sharp never deleted it and didn't change whatever engine they use for their site.

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