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Dev tools · April 23, 2014

NCurses Terminal Webcam

a webcam that can be run on a bare terminal. Contribute to mustafaakin/terminal-webcam development by creating an account on GitHub.

NCurses Terminal Webcam launched on April 23, 2014 with 110 votes, #105 of 1,174 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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NCurses Terminal Webcam is a dev tool that displays webcam footage in a terminal using text-based graphics. It runs on bare terminals without requiring a graphical interface, making it useful for remote access or minimal environments. The project is open source and available on GitHub for developers who want to contribute or modify the code.

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