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

1,073,460 button clicks • 665,166 successful machine activations • one remarkably patient bubble machine

25+years online

1,073,460button clicks recorded

665,166machine 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

Xavi Molina from mollet del Valles, Barcelona, Spain wrote on July 6, 2026

Hola Andie y Mike una vez mas me paso por aqui a saludaros, me alegra ver que estais aqui con el paso de los años, felicidades por este trocito de cielo que teneis en el jardin.6/7/2026 20:46

(Spanish to English translation: Hello, Andie and Mike! Once again I'm stopping by to say hello. I'm happy to see you're still here as the years go by. Congratulations on this little piece of heaven you have in your garden. 6/7/2026 20:46)

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.

Visit the Guest Book

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.