- Date
- 2009-01-04
- Kind
- Service_change
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationtechnologycommerce
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Beaver Island Realty reported restoring its webcam in January 2009 after technical problems and said it intended to point the camera in different directions when possible. In July, the operator reported another difficulty and a return to service; replies exposed a clock mismatch that the operator attributed to phone time.
Evidence limits
These are operator announcements and user observations, not a continuous-uptime record, archived image sequence, or precise camera-location survey. The July thread also shows that apparent timestamps were not necessarily camera time.
Sources
- The operator reported a webcam outage; follow-up identified a firewall rule blocking the camera port and reported restoration. This is a useful technical incident report but does not establish continuous uptime or preserve the feed.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002644
- Participants directed viewers to Beaver Island Realty and Powers Hardware webcams for live views of town during the Fourth of July parade. This documents public access and use of the webcams, not continuous uptime, archived footage, or camera coordinates.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002529
- The operator announced that technical problems had been addressed and thanked Ken Slough, Rick Bucholtz, Jeff Cashman, and others. It documents an operator-reported restoration and intended repositioning, not continuous uptime, camera coordinates, or an archived feed.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001401
- The operator reported another webcam difficulty and said it should be running again; replies identified a clock mismatch and the operator explained that the camera used phone time. This documents a reported recovery and configuration issue, not continuous uptime or a verified archived feed.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001792
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Realty restores its webcam, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-realty-webcam-restored-2009/, accessed [date], citing Rich Gillespie, Jeff, and participants, "BI Realty Webcam," Beaver Island Forum, August 7–8, 2010. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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