Re: Jenni in the Shower
Margaret Golden (nflibweb@mail2.nai.net)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:41:13 -0400
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:41:13 -0400
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From: Margaret Golden <nflibweb@mail2.nai.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Re: Jenni in the Shower
News Item wrote:
>
> WASHINGTON--Jennifer Ringley is her own paparazzo.
>
> Perched above her bedroom in her Washington, D.C., apartment, a camera
> snaps her picture every day, 24 hours a day, and then transmits it onto her
> JenniCam Web site.
>
> "The camera started looking at the life of a normal college girl, and now
> it's become the 'JenniCam'(http://www.boudoir.org) that is looking at the
> life of a celebrity," the 21-year-old Web designer said.
>
> Most of the time, the photos are anything but thrilling--Jenni working on
> her computer, Jenni talking on the phone. But sometimes those who log on
> get a more tantalizing image--Jenni changing clothes or getting out of the
> shower.
>
> Since JenniCam started out of her Dickinson College dorm room in
> Pennsylvania 1-1/2 years ago, fans have erected Web pages in honor of the
> woman one site calls "the queen of cyberspace." Computer users talk to each
> other online about JenniCam on chat rooms, and hundreds email her every day.
>
> "Without the camera, I probably would have always been a nobody," Ringley
> said.
>
> But most of the fan Web sites are devoted to pictures of Jenni. Some
> declare themselves "clean" sites, featuring snaps of a fully clothed Jenni
> in innocent poses. Others, however, feature nude shots of Jenni, and she is
> not shy of having sex in front of the camera.
>
> Ringley said the pictures out there are part of the "project" that is
> JenniCam, to give a person a window into someone's private world, virtually
> live. "The point is that it's a real person doing real things."
>
> There are other "Webcam" sites similar to Jenni's, but many claim that
> Ringley is the one who started it all.
>
> All around the world, cameras connected to the Internet take pictures that
> anyone with a mouse and a modem can see. Most of the cameras are outdoors.
> For example, computer users can check out what is happening on Venice
> Beach, California, on the Beach Cam or watch the weather change on Mount
> Everest.
>
> About 5,500 people pay $15 each year to be JenniCam subscribers who can
> receive updated images every three minutes. It costs more than $3,000 to
> run the site each month, according to Ringley.
>
> "Guests" can receive a new image every 30 minutes for free. There are about
> 75 men for every woman who subscribes.
>
> Ringley noted the experience has improved her self-image. "In the last year
> and a half I have gotten so much more confident. So what if I'm fat? Who
> cares if I have a bad hair day?"
>
> Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
> September 17, 1997, 3:20 p.m. PT
>
> Edited (slightly) for ConnTech. Full text at:
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,14343,00.html
how did Jenny get the org extension?
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