Code-based auto-generated art created from Internet sources.
Darkling Cruft (an eye on dangerous)
Auto-generated collage.
Started September 18, 2017.
Updates at 47 minutes past every hour.
Source: CCTV Cameras in the City of New York
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Further Resources
In the U.S. the first commercial closed-circuit television system became available in 1949, called Vericon™. Very little is known about Vericon™ except it was advertised as not requiring a government permit.
The system called Vericon™ requires no government permit.

Popular Mechanics, February 1949