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JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years
An anonymous Jenni fan writes "Details are sketchy, but apparently within the past few days, JenniCam has announced that it is closing permanently on New Year's Eve. Jenni Ringley has run the site for over 7 and a half years and was even voted more popular than Linus in a ZDNet poll. Of course, such constant exposure has had its downsides; she has received death threats in the past. Last chance to check out that Slashbox while her life is still online."
...what better way to say goodby than giving her server a good ole fashioned slashdotting.
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
One can only hope that camwhores everywhere might follow Jenni in this new trend.
Um... I think she'll be closing sooner than that once we get through /.ing her.
Eh, whatever. Until two minutes ago when I saw this, if I'd thought about who the first girl to get nekkid in front of a webcam was, I'd have thought of her just that way: "Who was that first chick who shat and screwed on camera for all of us?"
...and that's exactly how I'll think of her as soon as this thread is over and "jennicam" has once again faded mercifully from my mind.
A moment of one-handed typing, though, sure, I'll go for that.
All this time, I could have had her webcam appear whenever I visited Slashdot. Even the guest gallery (there's also a paid members only gallery) is loaded with full nudity and "playing". Even during the past week. Live news and live porn all in the same place. Too bad it'll be over after this month.
...but there's always DarlCam.
JenniCam isn't closing, it's just changing name to reflect the fact that Jenni is getting ripe. Here are the official domain names she'll use in the future:
- PreggyCam.org
- MommyCam.org
- MenopausyCam.org
- NannyCam.org
- CoffinCam.org
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
that saw this article and started to hear Forest yell "Don't go Jennay"
We don't need no stinking sig!
Agghhhh...wha? I'm Stacey! This is my big brother's computer! Want to see me naked?
Jennie is NOT a cam girl!!!
Jennie used the camera as a medium of self expression and speech, a means and method of recording her life for all to see on the internet. Jenniecam really was purely a social experiment.
She will be greatly missed.
Romana: "How did you know?" Doctor Who: "Ah, well, knowing is easy. Everyone does THAT ad nauseum. I just sort of hope"
only if there's a G3 in the photo. Where's the G3?
Whoa man, i'd totally forgotten about Webcrawler. Takes me back to high school (about 6 years) and trying to actually search for pr0n. Nowadays pr0n searches for you, here in Sovie....err rather everywhere actually.
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
Providing the their last words aren't.. 'I told u I was hardcore.'
From the sound of it, I'd say more like four times in the last half-hour. Man, you are seriously creeping me out here...
Oh, no, wait, that's a nightmare I had. Same night I had the 24 hour Tubgirl channel dream, now I think about it.
I think what you mean is:
"She's turned into a real woman with curves."
Dunstan - I can't get over a girl like you, so you'll have to turn the light off yourself.
The last scintilla of doubt just rode out of town
The goatse man announced that, after revolting an entire generation of net users, he was taking his fingers out of his bottom and looking forward to a well-earned sit down. "Frankly, it's hard to find sponsorship these days as all my visitors appear to come from a geek discussion site and leave again within 5 seconds. My fingers are also starting to get cramp and I've been advised that any stools I pass in future may not be accommodated by a standard 4-inch waste pipe", he added.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
The ending of any era that involves tens of thousands of grainy photos of a butt ugly anti-depressant-popping bisexual camwhore can only be a good thing, guys..
Uhhh..Are you on drugs? That woman has a face like a Playstation controller.
Although I did see a girl today whose chest was as flat as the underside of a motherboard.
[not a troll seriously!]
I've never heard of JenniCam. Is that just me or does this Jenni person run in different circles than say the nerds/academics that the average OSS developer runs in?
No news here people, move to the next article.
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Ah isn't it great ushering in the next generation? Doesn't it just make you feel old as dirt to hear someone who is not only ignorant of Jennicam, but also indignant of the idea that he should know about it.
I begin to understand the sad forlorn look in their eyes when my parents would wax poetic about something so banal as the A&P grocery stores and I'd indignantly grumble, "who cares?"
I expect now we'll be saying names like Robert Smith or Steven Morrissey and get quizzical looks, "um.. yeah... huh huh... aren't they like, the ice-cream guys or something... huh huh... huh"
Jeez
You whippersnappers, listen up:
Back when I was your age, we didn't have color screens. Back then, a gui was something you pulled out of your nose.
When I was your age, we loaded programs onto our computers using cassette tapes. We waited 20 minutes for the program to load up, and if we were lucky, it ran.
When I was your age, we didn't have C compilers that were free. We had BASIC, and if you were lucky, you had Pascal.
Back when I was your age, a 9800 baud was one thrilling piece of hardware.
We had computers that weighed over 100 pounds.
AND WE WERE GLAD.
Notes From Under *nix: blas.phemo.us
Reminds me of the old joke: Why couldn't Hellen Keller drive?
Because she was a woman.
You can still play with her CPU's though...hmmm SMP...
Back in the day, I whored many a domain name.
.ORG -- She was so outraged to find pr0n banners she quickly fired off an email to webmaster@npr.COM complaining about the pr0n. I laughed really hard when I found that in the e-mail catchall. I wrote her back and told her to donate to NPR so we didn't have to continue to put up pr0n banners.
.COM names now point at the expected places. :)
Among others, I controled NPR.com and jennicam.com
Jennicam was at Jennicam.ORG
One night Jenni was interviewed on letterman and the traffic to the jennicam.com webpage spiked. We put up pr0n banners and an giant headline saying "Jenni is behind one of these banners" -- Those banners generated several thousand bucks. I doubt the users ever found the jenni they were looking for, but they sure clicked.
One user heard about all this jennicam business on NPR and went to jennicam.COM instead of
Aaah jennicam. That stupid whore. NPR and jennicam
...I guess Cats will give back all our base next.
And who was the poor sod who had to clean the lens? I wondered why the camera went dark all of a sudden.
There goes my social life!
I never said they didn't. Learn to fucking read you stupid mother fucking idiot. Fuck, are you fucking stupid or something?
Fucking bastard. Oh sure emacs is just as easy to use as Textpad... sure that's fucking likely. And why the fuck do people keep using GCC? Cheaters. I fucking use cpp/cc1/as/ld manually cuz I'm a fucking man. I fucking like doing things the hard unintuitive way cuz fuck man, like when I was fucking the man in the fucking 70s I fucking rocked the non-mouse TTY systems. But fuck man, with a 1000MIPS graphics card and 10$ mouse I'm going to still fucking use the same fucking tools from the 70s and like not fucking adjust to the fucking times. Fuck man, gui's my fucking ass. We printed in punch cards when I had it best!
Fuck.
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Thank god we've still got the thrill-a-minute continental drift cam.
Much more intelligent. And more exciting.
:-)
Pete.Back when I was your age, we didn't have color screens.
Well, ol' man, back when I was your age, we didn't have monochrome monitors. We had punch cards, card readers and a line printer. Yessir.
When I was your age, we loaded programs onto our computers using cassette tapes.
We carried shoeboxes full of punched cards over to the card reader. Woe unto those unfortunate souls who dropped theirs.
We had BASIC, and if you were lucky, you had Pascal.
We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.
Back when I was your age, a 9800 baud was one thrilling piece of hardware.
Try 300 baud thru an acoustical coupler.
We had computers that weighed over 100 pounds.
The IBM 29 card punch weighed more than that. So did the Harris card reader. Lord knows what the IBM 360 mainframe weighed. The line printers needed paulbearers.
Wansu, th' chinese sailor
Back then, a gui was something you pulled out of your nose.
There are those that would argue that not much has changed...
To think, JenniCam was probably the first site I surfed left-handed...
I wondered how old one had to be to get a 3-digit slashdot ID.
:)
/Running and ducking
Now we know.
Davak
Typical ramblings of a Cure/Smiths fan. Pay it no heed.
Back in my day someone would post messages like this every day thinking they were witty and interesting. Some other guy would then invariably come along and have that guy's parents' telephones disconnected.
Back when I was your age, a 9800 baud was one thrilling piece of hardware.
You must've had one of those special tweaked out US Robotics Courier HST modems that ran at 9800bps instead of 9600 bps. Damn whipper-snappers always hacking their modems to get an extra couple of bytes a second. I bet you even printed out ASCII porn that took up 5 pages on your dot matrix printer. If you stand about 5 feet back you can make out a nipple and some bush.
Jenni, I've got your number,
I need to make you mine,
Jenni, don't change your number:
64.141.14.2 (Chorus) 64.141.14.2!
Back when I was your age, a 9800 baud was one thrilling piece of hardware.
It must have been! I've never heard of such a beast until you just mentioned it.
And to think... mine was a paltry 9600 baud.
I think 9800 was USR Courier proprietary protocol -- You old enough to remember *THAT*, Sonny?!?!
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
About the time I started - welcome old timer...
A year on the internet is 10 years in real time...:-)
whitearyanresistance.com, org and net! First time I ever got death threats running a website.
Oh the fun to have a random perl redirect script in there. When people would go to whitearyanresistance.com.org, or net they would get redirected to blacksonblondes.com, algore2000.com, NAMBLA and other fun sites.
It was redirecting them to the Southern Poverty Law Center that really sent them over edge though.
2600 has done some neat stuff too.... fuckcbs.com, etc
shouldn't that be 86.7.53.09? Wait, that's reserved... nm :-)
9600 baud. And in my day 2400 baud was something to get excited about.
Don't Tread on Me
16 year old girls everywhere are taking off their clothes for free.
uhhh.. you wouldnt happen to know of any links to these free cams would you?
for.. ya know.. research and educational purposes
The More Knowledge you have the Luckier you Get- J.R. Ewing
> It was amazing to me that people could get so worked up about seeing a fat chick's floppy boobies.
Adjust the aspect ratio, silly.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Will nobody volunteer to archive the hours and hours of Jennicam footage? We're losing a valuable piece of our digital history.
Only in America and Europe is it considered "normal" for a woman to be overweight.
Yeah, those small corners of the world...
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
> Well, ol' man, back when I was your age, we didn't have monochrome monitors. We had punch cards, card readers and a line printer. Yessir.
Do you have a big collection of porn on punchcards?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
You're right, those Samoans have no excuse..
We had to send smoke signals in through a plastic funnel. Our printer was an old man carving output into a tree with a rock.
We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.
We had Onetran, PL0, and French.
Try 300 baud thru an acoustical coupler.
Try making bleep noises down a piece of string through a tin can. 0.5 baud if the winds were favorable.
The IBM 29 card punch weighed more than [100lbs]
The Sears WonderBox 1900 was so heavy, it needed a special floor.
Be careful?
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
bah.. I'm under 500.
24
2^5
I've had the JenniCam slashbox for as long as I can remember and your post is the most information I've ever actually gotten about her.
/. for a year or so and finally got around to getting an id. Started setting preferences and noticed the option for JenniCam. Having no idea what it was I checked it just to see. She has been there ever since. I never actually took time (or cared) to find out anything more about her, but it was comforting to see her (or at least her cat) everyday when I checked /.
I had read
It's weird, but I've been 'seeing' her longer than any relationship I've ever had, even longer than my marriage (you don't want to know), and I have no idea who she is or what she does. And yes, I realize what that says about me and relationships.
I guess I'll miss seeing her here, but I'm sure it'll pass. I wonder if they have plans to add any other cams as a slashbox?
you're all figments of my deranged imagination
they don't make a webcam with a wide enough lens to capture her entire body
Ah, yes...I remember hearing about Jennicam back in the day. I even visited there a couple of times, but I wasn't impressed with the empty chair, nor did I have the attention span to wait for that one flash of boobie, and the same pretty much goes for all camwhores.
That is why I was most surprised a couple of weeks ago when I VNC'd into a co worker's laptop set up at her house to troubleshoot a router problem I was having and saw a pair of boobs on my monitor. It turns out that while my co worker was here at work, her sister has borrowed the laptop and was showing off her assets to a Yahoo chatroom and had the cam preview window convieniently open.
It was the coolest thing that has ever happened to me, especially since it was during the normal course of mundane systems administration. I mean, there I was troubleshooting a crypto map and *bam* 20 year old boobs delivered to my doorstep. It almost makes me wish my routers would freak out more often.
-R
Although I did see a girl today whose chest was as flat as the underside of a motherboard.
;)
Been stalking the playground again?
Kjella
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