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People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are (gizmodo.com)
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[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know of a few bars that have/used to have web streams of the bar. Most of them started in the 90s and 00s and I can’t remember if they shut them off after a certain hour or not. Buddy of mine in Florida would go to one of these locations have a cocktail in front of the camera and wave at us while we would freezing our asses off in the northern Midwest

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Bar Code was one. Cameras streaming patrons in other franchises in other cities so you could kinda interact with them.