(archived 4 june 1998) I can't believe you have all fallen for this. It is slight of hand, the black rectangle, being the diversionary tactic. The real insight comes from the carefully chosen CAPS and lowercase letters in "tHe AmAziNg CloSeT cAm" Genius! I'm going to dedicate a web site to this brilliant literary paradox.
I SAW HER!!!!!! FINALLY !!!! Thank God! I thought I was being taken for awhile! For those that do not believe, all I can say is, "stick around!" ---Steve Pack, Tempe. Arizona
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL!!
I LOVE IT!
Thank you Closet Cam, you give me a reason to to live! I can't wait to come back!
I hit reload, so your counter is wrong. So there!
Open your damn closet. I want out
IL SOTO MAJEROOO! Have this one as a starter on my browser,I haven't seen anything else then blacknes soo far but thoose who wait.... Your Pal in Sweden: Yoghurt-Windsurfer.... Why drink and drive when you can smoke and fly
it is not dark.Its only overflowed.
There is black, and there is black. This site is blackest.
AH-HA!!!! FINALLY! I SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!! HURRAY! HURRAY! HOOOoo......Wait a minute! Ok, who put the screen to Inverse Color mode??!!!
...Nice rendition of the classic painting "BlackHole at Midnight". Might I suggest the "Snowflake in a Arctic Blizzard Cam"?
Wer in sich geht, darf sich dann nicht wundern, wenn er dort niemanden antrifft...
I got to get one of these things. Then maybe my mom won't make me keep my closet clean.
Aren't there different colors or shades of black??
For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky.
(1) Mom, is that you? (2) Now I know where Jimmy Hoffa went...he just never wanted to come out of the closet. (3) What a cool place to hide from the Jabberwock, but why do I hear five cats purring?
This is a scam cam. It really is the night life cam for Hill City Kansas! (AKA Jesusville)
Schwarz vor den Augen, find ich nicht schlecht.
WOW!!! What an excellent camera site. Is that real-time blackness I see?
Brilliant! Brings back fond memories of when my stepmom would fall off the wagon for a few days.
hey, you silly guys put your cam on the top of your room and not inside the closet. i think, your closet is frequently used and the lens is always dirty.
Not that I'm brave enough to look into it, but I belive my closet looks the same....I do know what sort of hard work that lies behind it.
Poco loco, eh?
I got to get one of these. Now I have an excuse not to clean my closet. "But Mom, if I open it, the whole genrel public will see the mess!"
I like the idea of "the Best of CLoset Cam!" 'Twould be better to have seen and lost than to never have seen at all!
parece la foto de un gato negro baqandose en un pozo de petroleo, interesante contraste de colores.
I'm a closet closet cam watcher. Thanks - I feel so much better for sharing that with you. Roll on closet cam 2 - The later years
Open the freakin' closet! I can't see a freakin' thing
I get a lot of excitement out of hitting reload to watch the counter go up. Thanks for the wonderful entertainment. More sites should learn from your success.
THJIS CAMERA IS REALLY AWETHUM I wopue;ld re,ccp,ememnd it to everyonwwwwwwwwwwwwe!!!!! I AM THOMAS CHEESEMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We do only see a black picture ! Is there no one over there or are we blind? Greetings from Rob and Peter from Amsterdam, Holland
Wow! It's full of stars! The infinity and beyond. There is a Monolith in your closet. Where is Dave and what happened to Hal? They're in there aren't they? Daisy..........Daisy..........
Cool The closet comes to life and a whole bunch of G.I.Joe's come and attack you Wait that's my closet nevermind Can some one open the door and let me out?
Hey you stupid americans leave the dumb light on at night
Haha Bob!
Great ! Just a problem ; don't know how works the robot to switch light on/off It's allways off when I'm comming :-( Waiting for more fun ...
are you sure it isn't the coffin cam? momento mori
"Natta direkt" (in swedish and impossible to translate)
Did you know this is like one of those 3D pictures. If you stare long enough you start to see things. I saw Elvis changing into his Blue Hawaii shirt!!!
Wow, I have been here maybe a dozen time and seen nothing ! Why do I keep coming back ? Does it actually show something ? ????? AL
You really ought to get yourself a camera -(That Bill Guy...)
it's very black
I find that there are satanic undertones in your page. Too much black. What a mess!!
I just checked out the closet cam and all that I could see was black!
I'm sorry, but this is just STUPID! I've never in my life seen such a waste of time and space!
Let me out! I'm clostraphobic!!!!!!!!
ha ha very funny!
you people must be really bored!!!
Couldn't you leave the door open sometimes? What closet is this, and what's the point of having it if you never get into it?
(0)(0) (_) o AM I BLIND?
The Docter says Wine is your Enemy but God says Love your Enemy!!!!
hey... i can't believe that i actually watched your closet cam for 2 1/2 minutes... I kept switching from IRC back to your cam, in case i missed something. Pretty cool, keeping us in suspense like that. Can i add your URL to my site???
I wait for daylight only three days!!!! It is like I spend some time in bunker in Croatia 1992!!:) Will you install realtime clock with date???
wall writing by a drunk star trek fan: Hey scott me up beamie!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!! look at you people, it make me sick thinking of the population frittering thier valuable time away on such nonsense. personally, I would rather just sit and stare at my unplugged moniter wondering if the screen would magically turn itself on every thirty seconds. Repugnant!
Interesting use of lighting in the way it played across the colors.
(Don't Ask)
great pic. it is 3:20pm in Ontario. Jan 5/97. love all the black and no pic on my screen
give your head a shake and then at least you get to see stars in the dark
We spent the entire afternoon enjoying your closet-cam. I only wish that more closet-cams were available around the world. What a wonderful day we would have peeking into closets from across the sea. Thank you so much for offering such beautiful work. I look forward to visiting again. Bless each of you!
Your Closet Cam has paid off! I saw what I've been waiting for. At first I was not sure if this was for real or not but after 52 hours and 24 minutes of excitement it happened! The door opened and a girl waved at me! It really is real! I waved back but I'm not sure if she saw me. My pc/cam has been giving me trouble. So here I wait..
WHAT A GREAT VIEW ONCE THE DOOR OPENS! MY WIFE WANTS TO KNOW WHO DECORATED? SHE LOVED THE PARKAY FLOORING!
The Closet Cam is superb and the use of lighting could not be improved upon. Keep up the good work.
You are a good example of what is wrong with the up-bringing of American children, today. You are obviously American children.
now i feel dirty and used... ...not that i'm complaining
Ich versthen se nicht, Ich liebe When you stare too long into the closet, the closet stares also into you. Hey, all you folks who think nobody ever uses the closet ... ever heard of the blind, who never need any light to get through their lives? On The Right I see a Sheard Beaver Full Length Fur Coat Off White Colored, the length that goes all the way down to the ankles. On The Left I see a Full Length Fox Fur Coat Beige Colored. I also see a very pretty Blue Lilly Ruben Siquens Dress fit for a Queen! What Do You See?
Love, in this ever changing world , of cyberspace and mobile phones it is good to see that no matter what.. some things stay the same..but hey ..didn't I see a raging coathanger in the corner? Seeing this closet makes me wish I could use it to do immoral and illegal things in it. It would at least make it very entertaining to viewers and give me some thing to do besides roaming the internet for dark closets The camera may be actually pointing towards the wall. After a 2hour walkabout in that closet I finally found my way out. Get back to us all with an accurate time to visit this page... Your black rectangle has turned into a black rectangle with little grey dots all over. Is this my imagination, or my computer is screwed, or are you playing practical jokes? Well, it is a nice change from what it used to be; black nothingness.... i take it that you are not Motel 6. Why because you did not leave the god damn light on !!!!!! :) M-VM-vM-vM-vM-vM-vh...MM-vrkt...hM-vM-vhhM-vM-vhhM-vM-v hey uh....how bout a nightlight or maybe a little lighted clock??? i don't have any credit cards...but i guess you knew that!!! UM, HELLO IS ANYBODY HOME CAUSE THE LIGHTS SURRE AREN'T ON YA DORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL MABEY IT WOULD HELP TO SEE JUST WHAT YOUN'S ARE DOING IN THERE , BUT THEN AGAIN WE PROBABLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!! WELL WE'LL SEE ALL YOUN'S LATER MABEY IF YA WOULD TURN ON THE LIGHTS. huh? No one can hear you scream in cyber space oh wait is that normal space or is it hell or heaven or a hot bath or your closet well I think you get the point. the closet is closed i guess because it was dark inside my underwear is a size 5 socks 43 sorry I have no credit card if i get one i mail the number I can see them! They're out there! Can't you see them? The bastards are watching us! I have pondered and pondered about "what's wrong with this picture" and finally have come to the conclusion that this is not your closet. It's got to be your refrigerator. (The frozen mothballs gave it away.) When will be light? were i know this ... ?? ... Oh yes ! My hometown by night How much money have you thrown away on this so far? WILL YOU PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR. I JUST WANT TO SEE YOU AT LEAST ONE TIME. Pretty good idea actually, put up a black picture, pretend its a live camera shot of a dark room, guaranteed cheap way to get hits on your page, now if you could just sell a little advertising space on the page, you'd be in business! I love capitalism! MAYBE A LIGHT IN THE CLOSET WOULD AT LEAST GIVE SNOOPS LIKE US A CHANCE TO SEE WHO OR WHAT IS IN HERE WITH US. so when are you going to offer closet cam sound-tracks?
I'LL NEVER GO TO THE CLOSET AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
OH, you wanna go to the Closet Cam? OK! Here's a good advice... do it ,there's nothing to lose.
I am blinded by the brightness of the closet cam.
I hear that Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are investigating this site and it will be featured in an upcoming episode of the X-files. It will be THE episode to tie up all the loose ends! The Truth is in there......
I really like a red frock from second from the left. Ya, me too, but I prefer that blue Japanese Kimono!
OK, Naomi, how many of these comments did you actually write yourself? editor's note: only the really good ones
I'm really scared. Give me a flashlight
People of the earth beware the closet cam is really a transporter to the mother ship! If you look into the closet cam for more than 1 minute you.......OH NO there comming. HELP!
Why don't you guys offer a larger image? a close up?
I was entranced by this so called closet cam, when my mother entered the room and interrogated, "What's the point of the big black rectangle." That's when I switched back to the turtle cam.
On a scale of 1 to 4, how do you feel about the colour green?
You are the 1st person to turn nothingness into an art form. Congradulations! Leonardo DeVinci tried it, Van Gogh too, but you my friend, have been the 1st to succeed. I would like to congradulate you with this check for $10,000 for the copyright to this picture.
I wish my closet was as cool as yours.
The sad thing is that I saw it update 3 times. Cool.
I wish to commend you for the technical perfection of your Web camera site. Often, I cruise to a live camera site and find the image blank, the camera off-line or the site shut down. The Closet Cam, though, is always operating, updating every 30 seconds. It never disappoints. I find myself coming back here again and again. NASA can put a man on the moon, so they say, and yet its cameras cannot hold a candle to yours. How do you do it?
uuhhh....I like this closet...it makes me ponder...stuff....and it makes me realize how patient i truely can be by staring at a blank picture for hours on end hoping someone will open the door...maybe it isnt that great after all....oh, i dont know, maybe im losing my mind over this whole closet thing...is that an old triscuit over there?....
Its all a plot I tell ya! Its the Russian Spies! They are brain- washing us! Trying to keep us all occupied with the closet cam while they bomb the UN Building! Im telling you people stop looking in the closet before its too late!
In the beginning, the Closet was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the Closet. And God said, "Let there be light". But nothing happened. So he invented the Closet Cam.
My life had seemed to empty and worthless before I saw the Cam. It has truely changed me. Opened my eyes. Realized that although this world is so huge and often scarey, we can still look across the globe and into another's closet. It somehow makes anything seem possible. Makes everything just a fingerslength away. Thank you. Thank you for opening my eyes. God-damn, I gotta get me a graphical browser.
No doubt your closet is dark to protest Clinton signing the Communications Decency Act into law. Well it was struck down so TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON!!
Hey What's the big deal. This is just what I see out of my window at night. Maybe I should setup a camera. Just a minute..... well good grief! My closet looks just like your one when I climb in and close the door. Hey is this my closet? What are you doing in my closet? Well that's it I will never open the door again and you can look all you like but I won't open it so there!
did not see any thing in the picture??? just a dark frame???
You people all seem to use Wintel trashcans! Look at this cam using a Macintosh! It has a much higher resolution and light sensitivity. So, the faint glowing of the camera led is all you need to have a pleasant look into this closet. No, I won't tell you, what I could see! Buy a Mac yourself!
veni, vidi, vici!
James Bond comes home from big drinking. He opens doors and cold water falls on his head. "Ich bin gestorben!" says Bond and go out of bathroom.
It's a habit I now, and it is noet good for the enviroment, but can't you automate the licht, of the closet. Because I am viewing from holland and it's nite overthere when i am logt on. You can forget this message because i reelise that when it is nite over there there probeblie is no one to see.
Please turn on the light. :o) I like it otherwise. You guys rock!
HELP ME!!! I SAID HELP ME!!! I AM BLIND!!!!! I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!!!! HELP ME UNDERTSTAND THE MADNESS!!!
Picture this: I have been waiting for weeks and nothing has happened, but then one day someone came in and pointed at me and i got scared.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GET THE BLACK SOCK OFF MY HEAD Oh i'm looking at the closet cam
this sucks, get somebody to open the closet!
Remarkable how many people want to see what's going on inside this closet. If you have a closet of your own, go take a look, it's probably similar. And a few of the visitors have some pretty bad grammer, perhaps they thought this was the Hooked-On-Phonics Closet Cam page. Question: Who is worse? The person who puts a camera in a dark closet or the person who hopes to see what's in the closet? Whatever the answer I'll be back. Thanks for the laughs!:)
Putz dir den Arsch richtig ab!!
Once again a black hole.
Life is like a snowmobile, hurtling across the Arctic tundra. It flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
This is a japanese... [Chiisaitoki ni okaasan ni oshioki sareta koto wo omoidashimashita]...
I'm on to you, whoever set up this page. You don't really have a camera in you closet. You just plotted a black rectangle on your screen, and waited to see how many are willing to wait for something to happen.
The closet cam: the modern day Zen Satori reaching story!
Not bad, of course now I'm going to have to keep my computer on your page, watching it until I actually see something and know that this hasn't been a big sick joke.
Why don't you have something like "The best of closet cam" so that we can see that its not just a black screen all the time
what the hell is this??? Its dark and nothing is really there!!!
The entity i represent would like to extend its most sincere congratulations and appreciation to you for creating such a profound statement about the extreme peril that our institution puts this planet in and the dire need to irradicate us.
The 30-sec updates are having a serious effect on my driving.
It is better to light a camera than to cruise the darkness.
Looks ok to me, but then I am blind..
uhhhhhhuhu huhuhuh heheheheh huhuhuhuhuhuhu heheheheheheh uhhuhuhuhuh hehehehe uuhuhe heheu heueh hh huehueh fire fire fire lets burn something WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS
Pretty fun if you have nothing else to do
you know my mom always said I was in the dark, maybe she was right
I feel so honored to have been the 50828th person to witness in real time the CLOSET CAM, GOD it's good to be alive in the age of computers.
how many closet cam specialists does it take to change a lightbulb?
This happens to be the most inventive page of the Internet. This is a must stop site on the WEB. -Dick Burns of PC Magazine
What a waste of a server and your life!!
At first I thought that this was a joke. Then after watching for 5 hours I suddenly saw someone open the door and put something in. At least I thought I saw someone. Well worth the wait.
Did you know that a long time ago closets were a symbol of wealth? See, it all started when this person had some money. And they put it in the closet. Kazam. A new symbol is born. Or else it involved someone's crazy uncle, and their half-brother Quincy, who once fell in the canal and almost got his leg bit off by a big carp, but luckily he was wearing those Kevlar(tm) pants, because he had shot himself in the leg just last week, so the carp tried to bite his leg, but then it thought "Hey, I'm a carp, and I don't have no teeth," so the Kevlar pants didn't really have anything to do with it, but I thought it would be good to talk about it. Also, Kevlar would be a good name for a kid. Or maybe just a turtle. It would be really funny if you had Kevlar socks, because then people would think that you were so stupid that you shot yourself in the foot sometimes. Heh heh heh.
Wow!!!! Nice colors. The dragon is awsome. How much did you do?
Get out!!!! I saw something move. I really did. And it was drooling.
The closet is a wonderful place of magic. Sadly enough the light was off in this closet and I saw no magic. Thanks for the effort!
Hmmmmm..............
Is this an American joke or something? I had been watching you for a long time (almost an hour) because it was in the morning. Normally, people in my country tend to change their cloths before they go out to school. How about you?
whats so fun looking at darkness all day people these days they dont know how to have fun anymore.
Mmmmmmm....moose! It's raining like water's about to become illegal here and it's comforting to know that there are still American students with a not-very-wacky sense of humour putting things like this on the Web. Nurse, the screens!
I think there's something wrong with my screen.
Das Leben ist eher breit als lang, und wir stehen alle mittenmang !
You IDIOTS forgot to take the lens cap off of the camera!!! What kind of morons set up a public camera on the Web and don't even take the job seriously enough to do it right!? Sheesh. I'm going back to the good old reliable fish cam!
Oh my! Your vibrant, moving video of "A Night In A Practise Blackout" takes me back to my childhood, during World War II. Thanks for the memories.
Liegt der Bauer tot im Zimmer, lebt er nimmer !!!
CLOSET CAM HELPED ME UNDERSTAND THE REAL WORLD. I HAVE ENTERED REALITY, AND AM PROUD TO ADMIT IT. CLOSET CAM IS A ONE-WAY TICKET TO EDUCATION. I MUST ADMIT HOW MUCH THIS CAM HAS TAUGHT ME. I HAVE COME OUT OF THE DARK ----I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU DID THIS TO US POOR SOULS
I admit I'm a Loser
Mom !! Mom , this is not funny, MoM !!!!!!!
I'm a patient person This is the longest 30 sec. that I've ever waited.
I think i saw a black cat eating licorice . . . enough dark humor.
Faudrait voir a les laver un peu, tout de meme !!!!!
Oh No! A dead man inside the old travel bag. Please, somebody, call the police!!!
Big deal!!! It's a dark black closet! You can't see anything, what's the point? I'm sure you could think of a better thing to put on your screen! If that's all you got, you need to get a life!
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your closet cam was almost as great as that dumb fridge cam.
I see dark when i open my eyes, or are they closed? only i know the truth
Big deal!I've been in the dark for years!!!!
Why don't you leave your closet open so we know your not faking it
I know in the darkness, a truth will be shown, but I think your taking this to the extreme.
Ich bin ein Closeter!
That is so cruel.
Short man enters room...Rolls a fat one...lights up...inhales.. begins to mingle...
"There's a fire in my mind that shines out my eyes."
Very funny! Why do you waste ressources for this? (ed. note: that's why)
Thank you for teaching me to laugh at love...again!
-George, is that you in there? -No, I am but a black rectangle. -It is symbolic of something deeper, I think. -No, Squid Giblets, just a black rectangle. -Oh, I see. How did you know my name was Giblets? -First, I suggest you reconsider your basic tenets in this conversation. Why would a black rectangle be holding a reasonably coherent conversation with you? -I`ll go and get myself a life, then. Bye George. -Bye.
Do you expect me to believe that this is a real thing??
What the hell? It never changes!
After seeing the inside of the Closet, I am a changed person! I see now, the utter vindictive cruelty of keeping my garments confined in such a fashion!! Clothing Rights Now!
Hey, this looks just like my closet! It isn't, is it????!!!?????
Bery Bery Locking. But Black screen.......
WHY I SEE ALL BLACK ??????????????
I'm going to give you a shiner!
thIS CAM PAGE SUCKS WHATS THE HELL IS THE POINT YOU JUST LOOK AT DARKNESS IT WOULD BE COOLER IF YOU WOULD FIND A BETTER WAY TO USE IT .
THATS NOT EVEN A VIDEO CAMRA ITS JUST A PICYURE OF THE DARK AND YOU SAID ITS IN THE CLOSET SO YOU DON'T EVER HAVE TO UPDATE IT!!!!! YOU FAKERS
Alright, I give up. Am I . . . A) a victim of a cruel heartless joke? B) reaaaalllllly desperate? C) lost, and just happened to find myself in a closet? D) in need of a life, preferably one other than the one I have now.
No comments. You have scared me off. bye
Is this supposed to be a joke? I don't get it !!!
Dark! Eh?
This a long story about the dark: one time long ago there was darkness..the eyes of people were of no use because blackness surrounded them..Everyday each man and woman would get up and get dressed..noone new what each other looked like.. this was a good little town because people were marrying not for looks but for personality.. The farmers never had a good crop the skin of these people were white as ghosts.. Even though nobody saw eachother this was definatly a factor. One day a man brought a little candle..and all hell broke lose
Blackness rolls over the earth like a blanket over naked skin the the cover for the earth until it can break away.. the earth is forced into this new dark and mysterious world everything is diferent says the lady who once wore white but now it has turned a different color..oh this darkness damn you darkness..
What is in the closet of mine? The empty spaces of hell itself the open door of imagination.. The way to other worlds that have not ever been seen .. The mind of the little boy that was alone in his closet. It could be a prison for the garmets of mine. The shirts cry out "let me out!" but noone is there to hear then they are left there to swing on the hangar wishing if life could ever get any better...
i open my closet but carefully quietly because last week i scared my monsters and they said they would leave if i didn't keep the noise down
So who's the closet poetry dork?
hey i'm not in here ALONE, stop that!
THIS IS SCARY. LET ME OUT
You stupid, ignorant Americans. When will you wake up and realise that there is, in fact, a world outside of the good old US of A? What am I talking about? The fact that most 'whatever-Cam' sites in your sad country (including your site) don't leave the lights on for most of the rest of the world to actually see something!!
I am left here in darkness.. I once had the light. The light of her beauty soars out of her eyes, her hair, and her fingertips. Oh how i would like to touch those hands. But now she has gone away and left me inside in total darkeness.. I feel like the inside of my heart which is full of sin or blackend chicken. I wish to see her once again so i can she can turn on the lights.
Exactly what type of a viewer do I need to see this?
Life is like that - who the hell knows what is in there!!
Is this for real? If it is, turn the light on or open the door and let us see what's going on. If it's not for real. GET A LIFE and stop bothering those of us who are searching for one too!
Be careful with this stuff. This is how Rothko started you know.
thanks for the closet cam..... i think your cam is great.... to watch it i turn my system OFF..... then watch the blank screen...... HEY-PRESTOE free internet.. HEHEHEHE
I like the joke about turning off the computer to watch your closet cam, and getting free internet. Keep up the good work!
It a foolish joke
So, where's the cat? How do I talk to the cat?
This has brought up many unhappy childhood memories of when my parents would lock me in the closet. You'll be hearing from my lawyers!
Q: You're in a dark closet with a burnt out light bulb. You need to fetch a pair of socks. Assuming the drawer contains 15 red socks and 9 blue socks, exactly how many socks do you need to pull from the drawer so you have a guaranteed, matching pair? A: Three socks. The number of red socks or blue socks makes no difference!
Subtlety is lost on the masses.
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