Arthur leaned closer to his monitor. It felt like the fox was making eye contact. I know you’re there, the gaze seemed to say. Can you open it?
Why this specific string? In the late 1990s and 2000s, consumer and commercial IP cameras were flooding the market. Brands like Axis, D-Link, Linksys, and Foscam were putting internet-connected eyes into homes and businesses. However, web interfaces were an afterthought. When a user plugged in a camera and connected it to the web, the default web page served by the camera’s internal web server usually had a generic title tag to help the owner identify it on their local network. allintitle network camera networkcamera network cameras