A Condensed History of the Surfing Webcam

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Retro poster illustration of a surf camera mounted on a lifeguard-style tower filming a wave, with a vintage red television in the foreground showing the same wave.Illustration

Surf cams trace back to a 1991 Cambridge coffee-pot camera, and Surfline put its first one on Huntington Beach Pier in 1996. Thirty years and 1,250-plus cameras later, Surfline says all its live cams are now Premium-only, worldwide.

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