The Brooklyn Bunny Webcam
(2005–2015)

During the first decade of mainstream Internet browsing and several years before the popularity of social media, the Brooklyn Bunny webcam was launched on August 28, 2005. Starting its broadcast from the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, the rabbit webcam was originally initiated by Kevin Dresser and Kate Johnson in March 2005. The couple discussed opening a rabbit petsitting service with two live webcams so owners could check in on their rabbit via the Internet. The petsitting business was discontinued when they became attached to their own Dwarf Hotot rabbit, which they decided to name Roebling, after John A. Roebling, the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge. Below are 3 video clips from the original webcam broadcast. View more videos and images in our Webcam Archives.