Meanings
plural fishcams
- A webcam used to capture and publish images of fish.
The website has a fishcam, so you can look at your fish before you buy.
2007, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nick Fisher, The River Cottage Fish Book, page 5902 more examples
We now have radio and TV broadcasts over the Web, fishcams, satellite weather maps, pictures of naked women, bulletin boards, database interfaces, Web search programs, and who knows what else?
1997, Kevin Marlowe, Jeff Rowe, Microsoft Office 97 Internet developer's guide, page 39[…] D. J. Riebesell […] chronicles his fishkeeping on the web and is an early adoptee of fishtank webcams. He has not one but two fishcams, one for a community tank and one for a tank of C. frontosa.
1999, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 47, numbers 5-8, page 156
Origin
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