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April 14, 1996: JenniCam Goes Live


Raised as a nudist, 19-year old Ringley installed the webcam in her dorm room at Pennsylvania’s Dickinson College as an experiment in real-time documentary. The site, however, became far more than an academic exercise, attracting up to 4 million hits a day at its peak.

When she relocated to Washington, D.C., in 1998, Ringley added three more webcams and began charging through PayPal for “premium” access to more-frequent image uploads. Earning her living from the site, Ringley emerged as a web-empowered cult of personality. She played a geek character in 1998 on TV series Diagnosis Murder, appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and landed the cover of Modern Ferret magazine with one of her much-viewed pets.

 

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