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I decided to take another break from the addition of beach cams. Today I’m listing an old, and yes, inactive personal webcam. The jennicam was the first super popular personal webcam online. Jennicam got notice even by David Letterman & several other news shows back in the 90s.

There’s a great article by the BBC that I’ve listed on the personal webcams page. Here’s an exerp from it that lists this personal webcam phenomenon quite well: “Started in 1996 by 20-year-old Jennifer Ringley, then a student in Pennsylvania, US, Jennicam was billed as an “experiment”. Ms Ringley rigged up a camera to the computer in her college dorm and broadcast, live and unedited, her life over the web.

The site attracted massive interest, at one point drawing 100 million hits a week, according to its creator. Was it art, a charter for stalkers, a setback for feminism - or all three?” - BBC.uk - 1 January, 2004

Here’s a screencap of the infamous jennicam (personal webcam)

If you know of any other personal webcams that are noteworthy or just plain interesting, please drop me a line and I’d be glad to review and list it here.

That’s all for now…type-atcha-later…

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