Jennifer Ringley was the internet’s first camgirl. And then she disappeared.

August 23, 2022

When we think about the webcam, it seems easy to take for granted, as most come built-in to laptops and are easy to attach to desktop computers, but when looking back to the mid-90s this was not true. In 1996, 19-year old Jennifer Kaye Ringley was a student at Dickson College in Pennsylvania when she purchased a webcam and put it up in her room, where internet users could see a stream of continually updated screenshots of her dorm room. Jennicam, the name of her website, offered viewers a unique opportunity to look into Kayle’s life in short intervals 24 hours a day 7 days a week. She became the pioneer of a new type of entertainment that would be known as lifecasting… read more >

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