A real backyard in South Florida

The internet can still do nice things.

Press a button and make real bubbles appear in our backyard. Andie had the idea in 2001. Mike has been adding enthusiastically detailed statistics ever since.

Make some bubbles Explore 25 years

1,082,717 button clicks • 674,415 successful machine activations • one remarkably patient bubble machine

25+years online

1,082,717button clicks recorded

674,415machine activations

4,400+guestbook messages

The original Bubble Hut with its camera, machinery, and colorful bubble solution

The original “Bubble Hut”
Elegant? Debatable. Effective? Absolutely.

How did this happen?

A perfectly reasonable idea got slightly out of hand.

For Halloween 2000, Andie bought a bubble machine for trick-or-treaters. When she said it was a shame people couldn’t turn it on from the internet, Mike entered “tinker mode.”

On January 29, 2001, the BubbleCam went live. The cameras, computers, controllers, and bubble housing have changed many times since then. The basic idea hasn’t: someone, somewhere, presses a button—and bubbles happen here.

Read the occasionally bee-infested history

2000Andie has an idea
2001The BubbleCam goes live
TodayOver a million clicks
NextStill bubbling

New from the archive

Take the BubbleCam Time Machine for a spin.

Watch decades of button presses ripple across a world map. Scrub through the quiet days, the millionth activation, and the moments when some corner of the internet suddenly decided everyone needed bubbles.

Launch the Time Machine

Worldwide activity 2001 — today

2001

Today

Watch 25 years of bubbles travel the globe

Caitlyn from Goodrich, MI wrote on September 7, 2026

I just want to say thank you for this. This came across my Facebook feed this morning and made me a bit emotional, admittedly. In 2012 on Easter, my mother passed away from pancreatic cancer, and this woman was so full of whimsy and heart. Recently, my sister has been working to restore our mom's websites from the early 90s & 2000s webpage domain, "The Site Fights", and seeing your page going strong after 2001 made me so happy and made me think, "Gosh, Mom would've loved this!" That being said, I bookmarked this page so I can come back on the days that I'm missing her especially hard, or the days I want to share some big news with her. Thank you again.

Messages from the internet

People have been leaving notes from around the world since 2001. Some are funny. Some are touching. Many confirm that bubbles remain a sound use of the internet.

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For the curious

There’s more beneath the bubbles.

The main attraction is delightfully simple. The machinery, data, history, cats, and occasional internet stampede are another matter.

Your turn

The backyard is waiting.

Go make some bubbles. We’ll try to keep the machine filled.

Open the BubbleCam

The internet can still do nice things.

A perfectly reasonable idea got slightly out of hand.

Take the BubbleCam Time Machine for a spin.

Messages from the internet

There’s more beneath the bubbles.

Bubble statistics

When bubbles go viral

Cat Blot Tests

How it works

The backyard is waiting.