JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years

A Nice Cake Is Waiting For You tsarkon reports by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Actual email from Lori, an "ISD People Director," to Wal-Mart Associates:

From: xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 10:13 AM
To: ISD All Information Systems
Subject: Inappropriate us of restrooms

Dead ISD Associates,

We continue to hear complaints about the DGTC restrooms being unavailable for use while they are being cleaned. Many of you have asked why the restrooms are cleaned so often during the day, or why we cannot leave them open for use while they are being cleaned. I think that it is important that I share with you the juvenile and disrespectful behavior of a few of your fellow associates so that you can understand why. This note will not be a pretty one, but hopefully you will be as outraged by this behavior as we have been, and help us to stop these few associates who's poor behavior is effecting so many others.

In recent weeks we have had associates clog the toilet bowls with nearly a whole roll of toilet tissue, urinate on the floor and walls, smear human waste on the walls, and leave human waste on the floor or in receptacles not meant for waste. One day an associate left a note taped to the stall which read "A nice cake is waiting for you". Inside the stall was a mound of waste left on top of the toilet. For a few days we tried to leave the restrooms open while the custodial associates were cleaning. We had several incidents where the custodial associates were shown disrespect. One associate used the urinal right next to where the custodian was cleaning and sprayed urine on the custodial associate's arm. We have a duty to provide an harassment free work environment for all associates, and could not continue to allow the restrooms be open during cleaning after these incidents took place. The general practice across the Home Office is to close the restrooms while they are being cleaned.

We don't know who is responsible for this behavior, but do know that peers holding each other accountable to do what is right is a core principle in our Wal-Mart Culture, and the only way we will stop this. Don't tolerate it if you happen to see or hear about behavior that you know is wrong. Let your manager or a member of the people group know if you are aware of who left the note regarding the "nice cake" in the bathroom (it happened to be the 1st floor men's bathroom at the blue wall.) This incident was clearly a malicious act.

Thank you for your support. We know that you will be as concerned as we are to have this happening in our building. This behavior demonstrates a lack of respect for our facilities crew and for all ISD Associates.

Lori xxxxxxx
ISD People Director
Phone: xxx xxx xxxx
Fax: xxx xxx xxxx
Email: xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Confidential

See the scanned image here:
http://www.fuckedcompany.com/images/cake.html

And... by dr_labrat · 2003-12-04 21:33 · Score: 5, Funny

...what better way to say goodby than giving her server a good ole fashioned slashdotting.

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Re:And... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:And... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:10 · Score: -1, Funny

Tell me about it! Sheesh. I'm really quite drunk right now. At first it was just after work relaxing, now i have something to celebrate!

A blank screen.
Re:And... by Randolpho · 2003-12-05 02:53 · Score: 1

Now how am I supposed to get my pubescent voyeurism kicks?
</whine>

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Re:And... by rifter · 2003-12-05 03:33 · Score: 1

Now how am I supposed to get my pubescent voyeurism kicks?

At one of the 5,000,000 other webcam sites, of course! Hmm I wonder if goatcamse.cx is taken... No it's available! get it while the grits are hot! :)
Re:And... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:36 · Score: 1, Interesting

First ever pic on JenniCam
Re:And... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:50 · Score: 0

Try reading this about some jerk and Nauru.

Here's a good paragraph from it:

I grabbed another can of Busch, smoked a cigarette and went back to
work. Only now I was too drunk to get it up proper like. Had her on
her knees but she was too fat to get in good. Flipped her over, and
she was bouncing around a lot and I was having problems keeping it in.
I'm just a little guy and she had a lot of mass to wrestle with. As
she'd buck, she'd bounce me off. I ain't no great thing in the sack,
but undoubtedly, I was the worst I've ever been nookie wise. Slept
as far away from her as possible with one arm anchored off the side
of the bed. You ever see the episode of the Simpsons where Homer
gets really fat and he flops down in bed, the bed sinks and Marge
rolls on top of him? It was like that. She pulled down the mattress.
Re:And... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:01 · Score: 0

giving her server a good ole fashioned slashdoting

I think many on here have secretly always wanted to give Jeni more than a server slashdoting ;-)

The end of an era... by musingmelpomene · 2003-12-04 21:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

I think this calls for a moment of silence, or something. No, I really mean it. This was one of our first chances to see the true potential of the internet - for good and for bad. It spawned camwhores of all varieties and gave rise to a new kind of voyeurism. Goodbye to a pioneer.

Re:The end of an era... by Westacular · 2003-12-04 21:38 · Score: 5, Funny

One can only hope that camwhores everywhere might follow Jenni in this new trend.
Re:The end of an era... by Vee+Ecks · 2003-12-04 21:40 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

I've been online since the late 1980s. Am I the only person who hasn't heard of Jenni?
Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

With a nickname like "Vee Ecks (728747)" surely you're an insider and know something about the IBM PPC750vx? got any news about it you'd like to share?
Re:The end of an era... by transient · 2003-12-04 21:49 · Score: 2, Redundant

Yes.

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Re:The end of an era... by Vee+Ecks · 2003-12-04 21:49 · Score: 2, Funny

Agghhhh...wha? I'm Stacey! This is my big brother's computer! Want to see me naked?
Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:58 · Score: 4, Funny

only if there's a G3 in the photo. Where's the G3?
Re:The end of an era... by Channard · 2003-12-04 22:03 · Score: 4, Funny

One can only hope that camwhores everywhere might follow Jenni in this new trend.
Providing the their last words aren't.. 'I told u I was hardcore.'
Re:The end of an era... by SystematicPsycho · 2003-12-04 22:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'll be glad to give it a moment of silence when shows like Big Brother and Survivor are finally gone. That's the kind of voyeurism is spawned.
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Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:40 · Score: 0

Fall 1990 here and no, you're not. Think we should start a Jennicam-who Anonymous?
Re:The end of an era... by eric76 · 2003-12-04 23:00 · Score: -1, Redundant

No.
Re:The end of an era... by DNS-and-BIND · 2003-12-04 23:30 · Score: 2, Interesting

Gah...I had no idea the thing was still around. It was amazing to me that people could get so worked up about seeing a fat chick's floppy boobies. I seem to remember really militant fanboys, I've no idea why they existed. All in all, good ridance.

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Re:The end of an era... by Goldberg's+Pants · 2003-12-04 23:45 · Score: -1, Troll

You're a twat. Have you ever actually been with a woman? I mean a REAL woman? Most women aren't the scrawny bints the media portray as ideal.

In short, quit being a cunt.
Re:The end of an era... by ryanw · 2003-12-04 23:55 · Score: -1, Redundant

No..
Re:The end of an era... by transient · 2003-12-04 23:56 · Score: 1

Yeah I guess you're right.

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Re:The end of an era... by Channard · 2003-12-05 00:06 · Score: 2, Funny

Who was that first chick who shat and screwed on camera for all of us?"
And who was the poor sod who had to clean the lens? I wondered why the camera went dark all of a sudden.
Re:The end of an era... by DNS-and-BIND · 2003-12-05 00:59 · Score: 1

Yes, actually I have. Only in America and Europe is it considered "normal" for a woman to be overweight. If you travel to other countries, it's actually quite difficult to find fat people. I stayed for a month in China once, and saw a grand total of four overweight people (3 of which were children, sadly).
Of course, if you mean by a "REAL" woman, an overweight divorcee who likes Hostess Snack Cakes more than she likes looking good or caring for her body, no, I'll have to say my sexual history is sadly deficient in that department.
In short, quit making excuses for obesity.

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Re:The end of an era... by NDPTAL85 · 2003-12-05 01:08 · Score: -1, Troll

Yeah if one is gay they can hope for that.

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Re:The end of an era... by alitis · 2003-12-05 01:12 · Score: 1

Heh, how many people found out about jennicam through bofhcam?

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Re:The end of an era... by fafaforza · 2003-12-05 01:39 · Score: 0

Obesity is fast becoming a big problem in China right now. Probably due to the McDonald's restaurants and KMarts setting up shop there.
Re:The end of an era... by zootread · 2003-12-05 02:30 · Score: 1

I probably heard of her at some point or another.. but forgot who or what she was among the 2000+ other "JenniCam's" that popped up. The name "Jenni" is so common, I even remember a series of porno pics with this girl named "Jenni" and they were semi-amateurish (she had small tits, with tanlines). But then again there were a ton of other porno pic chicks named "Jenni"

In any case, I was getting girls naked on their webcams well before her site even existed (but of course, that wasn't a public thing). It was fucking great. It would range from girls I was webcamming with to randomly flash their tits without me even asking, to girls that would masturbate with me on a regular basis (and these were hot chicks!). And they would do it FOR FREE!!! These days, all the girls out their with cams expect you to pay for that.

The only problem back then was my dialup connection was kinda flaky and I'd lose the connection in the middle of the action, man did that suck. But surprisingly, dialup provided enough bandwidth for videoconferencing.

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Re: The end of an era... by Black+Parrot · 2003-12-05 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny

> 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.

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Re:The end of an era... by Atzanteol · 2003-12-05 02:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Only in America and Europe is it considered "normal" for a woman to be overweight.

Yeah, those small corners of the world...

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Re:The end of an era... by FuzzyBad-Mofo · 2003-12-05 02:59 · Score: 4, Funny

You're right, those Samoans have no excuse..
Re:The end of an era... by flacco · 2003-12-05 03:07 · Score: -1, Troll

One can only hope that camwhores everywhere might follow Jenni in this new trend.
except for the cute shaved asians!

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Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:43 · Score: 0

allot

People are using the *very real word* allot in a mostly inappropriate way... to mean "much of something".

as in "i gave mike allot, much more than steve."

saying "a lot" is not in any way a correct replacment for "allot" when used inappopriately above.

"a lot" would not serve their purpose, it would mean "a group" or "a portion"...

so, really, your sig is stupid. please change it.
Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:45 · Score: 0

Seems to me, if you were telling the truth, you obviously had the tools to go out IN REAL LIFE and get a girl. Instead of a fist and a netslut.

SUCK IT TREBEK
Re:The end of an era... by zootread · 2003-12-05 04:05 · Score: 1

Seems to me, if you were telling the truth, you obviously had the tools to go out IN REAL LIFE and get a girl. Instead of a fist and a netslut.

You're right, and I did. Incidentally, for my videoconferencing I was using an actual video camera connected to a capture card. Now, that video camera also came in handy when I had a girl over (in real life), and I have a nice collection of videos to reminisce about the good ol' college days.

Just because a guy gets laid in real life, doesn't mean he can't wank with a bunch of sexy webcam sluts and enjoy that too.

Where are webcam sluts these days? Not the whores, I'm talking about the ones who give it up for free.

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Re:The end of an era... by MrScience · 2003-12-05 04:42 · Score: 1

You would be more familiar with the Coffee Cam.

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Re:The end of an era... by carlos_benj · 2003-12-05 04:46 · Score: 1

I think he's refering to the use of 'alot' not 'allot' in place of 'a lot'.

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Re:The end of an era... by acabrera · 2003-12-05 05:12 · Score: 1

I wouldn't go as far as to call him fat. Brother's Samoan, what's he gonna do?
Re:The end of an era... by nightsweat · 2003-12-05 05:18 · Score: 1

Samoans?
We can't stop here. This is bat country!

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Re:The end of an era... by Tibor+the+Hun · 2003-12-05 05:54 · Score: 1

thanx man, i needed that on a slow friday.

one of god's own prototypes...

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Re:The end of an era... by duck_prime · 2003-12-05 06:00 · Score: 1

Yes, actually I have. Only in America and Europe is it considered "normal" for a woman to be overweight. If you travel to other countries, it's actually quite difficult to find fat people
Let's not forget that in the 3rd world there just isn't such a superabundance of cheap food. In America the poor people are fat, and the rich people (with access to gym & overpriced Jenny-Craig chow) are thin.

I recall an article by a Peace Corps fellow returned from West Africa, where being fat is a sign of prosperity. A local man told him, "When you came here you were white and fat. Now you're skinny and red," and wondered if the PC fellow thought it was worth it.

In short ... in many parts of the world, "fat" also means "phat".
Re:The end of an era... by t0ny · 2003-12-05 07:52 · Score: 1

In a way, she was also ahead regarding the "reality-tv" craze.
BTW, I say Linus gets a 24-hr webcam in his house. He would make billions!

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Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:56 · Score: 0

BTW, I say Linus gets a 24-hr webcam in his house. He would make billions!
Ya, it would give the open-source geeks something new to masturbate to.
Re:The end of an era... by Afrosheen · 2003-12-05 08:15 · Score: 1

You forgot to mention the cheapest food in America is also the most fattening (on average). So 2/3 of the country living close to the poverty line can't afford enough of the good food to make them feel full, and venture to Burger King or McDonalds for a lard-filled meal.

Being poor or close to it also has a tendency to keep your ass on the couch. You'd like to go out to a movie or restaurant, but that costs money. You'd like to get up from the computer and go shopping for some new shoes, but that costs money. Eventually your mind gets paralyzed by your lack of funds and you just sit and flip channels. Trust me, this is how most Americans live.

The biggest problem in this country isn't obesity, it's the disparity caused by the widening gap in the classes. The rich are much richer, the poor are much poorer, fattening food is cheap, hence America is fatter.
Re:The end of an era... by Drakonian · 2003-12-05 08:18 · Score: 4, Informative

Not sure if that was meant to be funny or not. But for those that don't get the allusion, it's pretty serious stuff. Here's the article from May 2003 Harper's. The guy documents overdosing on drugs in a chatroom and dies as everyone else debates whether he is serious/tries to call for help.

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Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 09:53 · Score: 0

Having actually bothered to read all the logs of the chat, it's obvious that the guy was a moron druggy who was going to die sooner or later.
Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:07 · Score: 0

I'd have thought of her just that way: "Who was that first chick who shat and screwed on camera for all of us?"

Hmmm, are you sure you were using the right URL?
It was www.jennicam.com NOT www.jennicum.com !!
Re:The end of an era... by dedalus2000 · 2003-12-05 12:24 · Score: 1

I wouldn't worry too much about Anonymous Coward's argument it's true that the cheapest foods are the most fatening and that haveing nowhere to go worth going tends to lead people to go nowhere. cheap sustanance foods don't have the sort of nutritional value that better more expencive foods do produce is a luxury for somone makeing 15,000 a year so is fish.

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Re:The end of an era... by JDWTopGuy · 2003-12-05 14:26 · Score: 1

BTW, I say Linus gets a 24-hr webcam in his house.

I agree. Maybe then we'll find out why the F he's naming kernel releases "stoned beaver" and such. I mean really, what the heck is he doing in his free time?

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Re:The end of an era... by aardvarko · 2003-12-05 15:04 · Score: 1

You're new here, aren't you?
Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 16:11 · Score: 0

What I find amusing is that a lot of people only think it's funny because, thanks to you, they now understand it. Thanks for the public service.
Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 16:19 · Score: 0

Cheapest for the amount of calories you're getting, perhaps. If you want to fill up, there are much cheaper alternatives. Vietnamese noodiles (either pho or vermicelli) are a great option; a couple of bucks (4-6 canadian) gets you a large bowl. I would have starved as a poor student if it weren't for this stuff.
Re:The end of an era... by Syberghost · 2003-12-08 11:55 · Score: 1

The true potential of the Internet? If jennicam was the true potential of the internet, then it's at 14.9 seconds and counting.

Slashdot is closer to utilizing the potential of the internet than jennicam. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Jenni's bravery and honesty, and there are certainly far worse things on the internet to which one could become addicted, but give me a break; it was a time waster for people who didn't have a life, and wanted to see what it was like to be somebody who did.

Son of Tsarkon Yoda Doll To Major Tom by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:36 · Score: -1, Troll

Son of Tsarkon Reports on a Space Oddity

Synopsis:
Major Tom goes to the bathroom and shoves a Yoda doll up his ass, and then gimps back to his desk to post AC Trolls on Slashdot.

Soddity

Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Take your ex-lax bars and put my do-rag on.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Commencing countdown, rope is on.
Begin insertion and may Goatse's love be with you.

This is Yoda Doll to Major Tom,
You've rectally been flayed!
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
Now it's time to leave the crapper if you dare.

This is Major Tom to Yoda Doll,
I'm stepping through the door.
And I'm farting in a most peculiar way!
And my ass looks very different today.
For here...
Am I shitting in the tincan?
Far...too busy posting trolls.

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

Uploading one hundred thousand files,
I'm feeling very ill.
I don't think my feces know which way to go.
I can't tell my intestines from spaghetti-
code.

Yoda Doll to Major Tom, your prostrate's dead, there's something wrong,
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear...

Am I shitting in the tincan?

My ass like a baboon's

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

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Am I the only one? by sageo · 2003-12-04 21:37 · Score: 5, Insightful

Who didn't know about this site OR care when they heard about it?

Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:47 · Score: 0

No. Like I said above, 16 years of internetting and I'd not heard of her. Judging by the comments though, this is about as important a news article as "www.xxxhotfistybabes.com is closing" or some such.

I think geek culture is collapsing in on itself.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:49 · Score: 0

Who didn't know about this site OR care when they heard about it?

Those with slashdot ids 681426 and above!
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:52 · Score: 0

I never heard of jennicam until now. Baffles me that she's more popular than Linus. But then again...
Re:Am I the only one? by tres · 2003-12-04 22:53 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:16 · Score: 3, Interesting

Wow, aren't you old-school.

I remember when your only choice for programming was assembler - or if you were unlucky, straight machine code, which you translated from some pseudo-assembler notes on paper.

I remember when high-level languages were rubbished for being inefficient, and only of academic interest (the same way natural language programming is viewed now).

And I remember that back then we had twits saying "you youngsters are hopeless, in my day we used punch-cards".

But, it really does make you feel old to hear of someone not knowing what Jennicam is. I guess she's faded into insignificance, because all the teenagers who watched her with the hope of seeing her naked have grown up.
Re:Am I the only one? by DZign · 2003-12-04 23:16 · Score: 1

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've been thinking about this too..

Does anyone know if there's a website which bookmarks 'special' things/evolutions on the internet ? A sort of diary ?

When I got on the net (+10 years ago) it as first bitnet and there were rumours about the great shutdown (yes the whole net was shut down).

I do remember UK domains were .uk.co instead of .co.uk (maybe only for mail or through bitnet to internet gateways ? which they've also changed one point into time)
I remember this mozilla thingy coming out, wauw, it was better then gopher, but I disliked the grey background..
should've bought some domain names back then when they were almost free..

I'm sure a lot of people here will have similar memories of things changing/happening, but is it written down somewhere so the next generation or even just the people who came on the net after us can find anything about it ?

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Re:Am I the only one? by AllUsernamesAreGone · 2003-12-04 23:16 · Score: 1

Yeah, and I bet you had to wark miles to school every day. Uphill. Both ways. In the rain.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:41 · Score: -1

No, I was also wondering WTF they were talking about.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:22 · Score: 1, Insightful

Otherwise you can be absolutely certain she would still milk it.

Ah come on, you had a 9600 BAUD MODEM!!!! You know you had a Borland Turbo C compiler sitting on at least one or two of your computers. There was no internet, but there sure were BBS'.

I miss the BBS days. On BBS systems you pretty much knew all the posters on a personal level. There were only 100-200 people on a GOOD BBS. The Public Domain ones were annoying with too many people. The internet started out similarly with contained forums, IRC chat rooms where friends would hang out, etc.

Now due to the large spread of IM clients people don't need to hang out in chat rooms to talk to their friends and now forums have grown so large you can't really keep track of the people in the forum. You can barely keep track of the actual topics and a few posts let alone all the inside jokes that people try to put into their comments.

If it weren't for the fact that most people on this forum are unix geeks then most of the posts on this forum would be uninteresting because there is nothing of real interest that bonds ourselves from one comment to the next.

I dunno... internet sux. I've been saying that ever since it came "alive" with real audio. I was like, "Uh, huh huh .. this sux..".

We put people on the moon several decades ago and we couldn't even get audible streaming audio for the longest time.

E-Mail, which drove most of the rest of the world to the internet is now full of SPAM and useless information. Reading e-mail is a chore for most people due to spam. It's not helpful to most of the world any longer. A HOTMAIL account gets about 50 spams a day. It's a chore.

The internet is such a downer. Thanks for nothing AL GORE!
Re:Am I the only one? by tommy_teardrop · 2003-12-05 00:28 · Score: 1

Yeh - I have friends who *STILL* say "you youngsters are hopeless, in my day we used punch-cards".

There are always people older than you, and people younger than you. Ever feel it was us that were fading into insignificance?

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:37 · Score: 0

Most of it should be archived by archive.org. I expect in a decade or so we'll have people doing archeological research of the various early web archives.

What google groups has taught us is that archives will be found if you need/want them. The internet is just too pervasive for things of importance to not be archived somewhere.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:40 · Score: 0

I have a hotmail account. Ever since microsoft made their spam filtering decent I've been getting 50 spams a week, not 50 a day. In fact, my filtered isp mail account gets more spam than my hotmail account, and that's despite the fact that I only pass around my isp mail account to friends, and use the hotmail account for everything else, like porn, and um, porn.
Re:Am I the only one? by Accipiter · 2003-12-05 00:45 · Score: 1, Flamebait

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.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Wansu · 2003-12-05 00:55 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:02 · Score: 0, Funny

Back then, a gui was something you pulled out of your nose.

There are those that would argue that not much has changed...
Re:Am I the only one? by zeroclip · 2003-12-05 01:05 · Score: 1

*raises hand in shame* I've never even heard about this... And i've been an active nerd for a good 10 years.
Re:Am I the only one? by Davak · 2003-12-05 01:07 · Score: 5, Funny

I wondered how old one had to be to get a 3-digit slashdot ID.

Now we know. :)

/Running and ducking

Davak
Re:Am I the only one? by monotoy · 2003-12-05 01:12 · Score: 1

Try 300 baud thru an acoustical coupler.

woohoo! i loved my vc20's acoustic coupler. i'd love to have one again, should be fun with a laptop and a phone booth =)
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:16 · Score: 1, Funny

Typical ramblings of a Cure/Smiths fan. Pay it no heed.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:20 · Score: 1, Funny

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.
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.
Re:Am I the only one? by seems+so+green · 2003-12-05 01:23 · Score: 0

Shut yo mouf ol' timer!
Re:Am I the only one? by HeghmoH · 2003-12-05 01:23 · Score: 1

Hmm. I had all the stuff you listed (no color screens, loading from tape, etc.) except the 100-pound computer, and I have no clue who Robert Smith or Steven Morrissey are. Did I miss something really important?

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Re:Am I the only one? by AKnightCowboy · 2003-12-05 01:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

I guess she's faded into insignificance, because all the teenagers who watched her with the hope of seeing her naked have grown up.
No, they've just watched the Internet evolve into the greatest pornography distribution system the world has ever known. In 1994 it was hard to find any good free porn sites.. 1995 brought the businesses who locked down their porn and blurred it out for guests. Eventually the race to compete for customers brought us to the point where you can now just type in random URLs and get to a hardcore pornography site. Who needs to sit around on Jennicam.com hoping some 30+ year old chick takes her shirt off? God bless the Interweb and smut peddlers.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:24 · Score: -1

no, your not the only one
Re:Am I the only one? by Divide+By+Zero · 2003-12-05 01:29 · Score: 5, Interesting

Baffles me that she's more popular than Linus.

Look at it this way: A(n occasionally naked) girl gets more votes from Internet users than Linus in a popularity contest. I would have been genuinely surprised if Linus had won. [Put your favorite Diebold/election fraud joke here!]

She -was- one of the first people I would consider a "net.celebrity" in that she'd gotten mainstream press coverage for what she was doing on her website. It wasn't a pr0n website by-and-large, although I have seen a few images from what must be early Jennicam that made it look like she was taking requests for nudity. The vast majority of the time I caught it, it was either her at her computer or out of the house or her cat on her computer chair or some crap.

I always saw it as more of a cam-blog, before there was "blogging" as we understand it today. You could peek in and see the new boyfriend or maybe a change she'd made to her furniture or whatever. Mundane, but still something that you checked out anyhow.

I can't say that I'll actively miss it (I haven't seen the site in probably over a year), but it does strike me as an end-of-an-era sort of thing. Jennicam came out in the "frontier" days of the Internet - a time where the general public didn't know what a URL was, before "camwhore" was a word, before the corporate world started to use it as a marketing tool. It was just some chick who put her life on the internet as sort of a diary or exhibitionistic social experiment. In that sense, I am sad to see her site go, because to me it represents that time now gone, and I'm a sap when it comes to that sort of thing.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Asprin · 2003-12-05 01:34 · Score: 2, Funny

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?!?! ;)

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- Doug McKenzie
Re:Am I the only one? by 3terrabyte · 2003-12-05 01:37 · Score: 1

NO! I love that site! Please tell me you're joking about xxxhotfistyBabes.com closing!

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Re:Am I the only one? by Adm1n · 2003-12-05 01:39 · Score: 1

And we had to climb uphill both ways for 20 miles to go to scholl, we didn't have no Rolly-coasters, we had to climb up the side of a mountain and jump off! Shooting our spines right through our skulls and gosh darnit we liked it.
Re:Am I the only one? by Pelorat · 2003-12-05 01:46 · Score: 1

Punch cards!? Luxury!

All we had was a patch of dirt outside the front door and a small stick to share among the 7 of us.

Then we got the sandbox. Heaven.
Re:Am I the only one? by harrkev · 2003-12-05 01:48 · Score: 1

Pffft.

I remember many days of surfing at 300 baud!

Ahhhhh. The fun of the old Commodore 64.

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Re:Am I the only one? by CrazyTalk · 2003-12-05 01:50 · Score: 2, Insightful

9800 baud? Yes, I remember when that was like a dream come true, hooking my Atari ST into the grad school network. But, I also remember when 300 baud seemed fine, and those new fangled 1200 baud modems were just too fast - after all, who can read at 1200 baud? With text scrolling by at 300 baud, I could easily manage to keep up. Clearly, faster modems were not needed.
Re:Am I the only one? by colonwq · 2003-12-05 02:06 · Score: 1

You have watched too many movies

:wq

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:11 · Score: -1

We would have considered ourselves lucky if it were only rain. We had snow, tons of it. Had to climb out second story windows, so we could clear a path to the door. We didn't have those fancy shovels either. had to use our hands, until they fell off from frostbite. Then we had to use the stubs. You ever try snow removal with stubs?
Re:Am I the only one? by Heem · 2003-12-05 02:13 · Score: 1, Funny

9600 baud. And in my day 2400 baud was something to get excited about.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Keith_Beef · 2003-12-05 02:14 · Score: 1

And you try telling that to young people today. They won't believe you! .
Re:Am I the only one? by Pelorat · 2003-12-05 02:26 · Score: 0

The first time I heard Chapman in that sketch I thought he'd said "Look, shithead" instead of "Luxury"
Re:Am I the only one? by bobroberts · 2003-12-05 02:38 · Score: 1

Don't scoff. I made some decent pocket change selling those ASCII centerfold printouts to horny 9th graders back in the day. It literally was printing my own money!

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Re:Am I the only one? by the_mad_poster · 2003-12-05 02:40 · Score: 2, Interesting
I jumped straight from dialing into local BBSes with a 2400 baud modem to getting a dial-up Internet connection with a 14.4 modem. THAT was an exciting upgrade! Some other notes to date me:
- I own an Atari 2600 (3rd gen. type). Yes, I have E.T. Lucky me.
- The first computer ever in my house was indeed tape-driven.
- I remember learning BASIC from the horrible manual in DOS 4.
- I remember having to "learn this new-fangled Windows".
- I remember the days when Apple ruled the world.
- I remember when "frames" was new technology for the WWW.
- I remember when animated GIFs were snazzy new technology (back in Ol' Netscape 3 - they're almost 10 years old).
- I'm only 22.
Compare that with folks today who don't know what a shell is, don't know what a command prompt is, have no idea what DOS is, much less any other Operating System...
That's what sucks about computing. I'm actually so young, but I can still feel so old.

As for Jennicam, I remember when it first appeared, I don't care that "Jennicam is dying". Frankly, camwhores annoy me anyway. Shit, they spawned things like Goatse >:(
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Re:Am I the only one? by zootread · 2003-12-05 02:47 · Score: 1

In 1994 it was hard to find any good free porn sites..

alt.binaries.pictures.erotica. It was like porn flowing out like tap water from a sink.. And you weren't paying for the water, but you needed a big enough bucket to catch it all before downloading it from the UNIX shell account to your home PC. There was also a newsgroup with video that was also pretty good. It was a good time to be a teenager.

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Re:Am I the only one? by kabocox · 2003-12-05 02:49 · Score: 0

Yes, but we have better porn now! And we like it.
Re:Am I the only one? by bigman2003 · 2003-12-05 02:49 · Score: 0

Only if you envied the guys who wore eye-liner, and attempted a feminine/androgynous lilting voice because the whole boy/girl thing made them cry.

And their parents just couldn't possibly understand who they REALLY were on the inside.

("why do people have to judge me because I wear make-up?!?")

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Re:Am I the only one? by mt-biker · 2003-12-05 02:50 · Score: 1

We carried shoeboxes full of punched cards over to the card reader. Woe unto those unfortunate souls who dropped theirs.

As a 7th grader, I once caused a 10th grader to drop his stack. It wasn't BASIC - no line numbers.

Came pretty close to being fed through the line printer.

These days, of course, we have easier ways to lose hours of work - two vi sessions open, anyone?
Re:Am I the only one? by CrosseyedPainless · 2003-12-05 02:51 · Score: 0

I could only get my C64 to dial into school at *110* baud. I remind myself of this every time I want to justify the cost of always-on broadband....
Re:Am I the only one? by Atzanteol · 2003-12-05 02:55 · Score: 1

Ya know, I was around when this thing first came out, and I remember thinking to myself "who cares" at the time. Her site was boring. The only reason it caught on was the occasional flash of nudity to keep the geeks watching. If it weren't for that it would've died a long time ago...

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Re: Am I the only one? by Black+Parrot · 2003-12-05 02:56 · Score: 2, Funny

> 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?

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Re:Am I the only one? by PiratePTG · 2003-12-05 02:57 · Score: 2, Interesting

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.
My first "monitor" was a Teletype ASR33 and the front panel of my IMSAI. I had paper tape instead of punch cards!
We carried shoeboxes full of punched cards over to the card reader. Woe unto those unfortunate souls who dropped theirs.
The only punchcard I saw was the electric bill from Tampa Electric. Until I got into college. THEN came the shoeboxes full of card decks...
We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.
Fortran, Assembler, COBOL, BASIC, and BDS C...
Try 300 baud thru an acoustical coupler.
My ASR33 had a 110 baud modem with a ROTARY dial built into it.
The IBM 29 card punch weighed more than that. So did the Harris card reader.........
I could almost swear that some of my card decks weighed more than the reader! LOL At least they seemed that way!!!
Nayah, nayah, nayah!!! (Gawd, I love trading barbs with other old timers!!! )

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Re:Am I the only one? by drrapp · 2003-12-05 03:00 · Score: 1

Back when I was your age, we had slide rulers, typewriters and a party phone line.
Re:Am I the only one? by BurKaZoiD · 2003-12-05 03:02 · Score: 0

I don't know who "Jenni" is, nor Robert Smith, nor Steven Morrissey, or even what the A&P grocery store is, and I am what I would consider "old as dirt", and I don't feel one shred of indignity about it. I read the article about her site, the death threats, etc., and regarding the closing of the site I simply ask (rhetorically) "Who Cares?"

I remember the pre-GUI days, cassette tapes, BASIC, and 2600 baud modems, and online bulletin boards, and punch cards, and walking across campus to the computing center to wait in line for 3 hours to run payroll and hoping to god it ran correctly because I dropped the goddamn cards on the way there.

So STFU. CHRIST, I FUCKING HATE IT people. Times like this make me wish I had gotten my fucking MBA instead so I could outsource your annoying ass.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:02 · Score: 0

That's why you always took a wide black magic marker and made a diagonal stripe across the top of the cards!
They taught us that in CS242 (370 Assembler)
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Proudly posting as AC since 1997
Re:Am I the only one? by FuzzyBad-Mofo · 2003-12-05 03:03 · Score: 1

You had 9800 baud? I had a 300 baud modem, and liked it! Sure, it was faster to just walk into town to talk to people, but this was over the computer!
Re:Am I the only one? by ckaminski · 2003-12-05 03:04 · Score: 1

Dude, you're too YOUNG to remember when Apple ruled the world... ;-) Oh the good old days, when Archie was king and gopher ruled the web...
Re:Am I the only one? by cayenne8 · 2003-12-05 03:06 · Score: 1

We were evicted from our hole in the ground....

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:11 · Score: 0

alt.binaries.pictures.erotica. It was like porn flowing out like tap water from a sink.. And you weren't paying for the water, but you needed a big enough bucket to catch it all before downloading it from the UNIX shell account to your home PC.
I never did get into downloading anything from Usenet binary groups. To me it was a fantastic waste of time. I suppose if you had some program to download all the parts and put it back together it would be fine, but I never had anything like that. So manually downloading picture part 1 of 256 (where parts 30, 55, and 75 were probably missing), uudecoding them, and then cat'ing them back together was pointless.
Re:Am I the only one? by flacco · 2003-12-05 03:11 · Score: 1

next you'll tell us about your grey pubic hair.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Gandalf · 2003-12-05 03:11 · Score: 2, Informative

You don't need to be older than 26. It just helps if you read Fish & Chips before Slashfdot came along.
Re:Am I the only one? by Pelorat · 2003-12-05 03:14 · Score: 0, Troll

Wtf, you wasted a mod point on this? I bet you don't even know what the conversation is about...

Earth to asshat, Earth to asshat, come in asshat! We've got your clue all fueled up and ready for you...
Re:Am I the only one? by jagger · 2003-12-05 03:15 · Score: 1

Right on brother.

well except for the pascal comment.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:16 · Score: 0

If he can remember from age 2, maybe, I guess...
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:16 · Score: 0

Heh, oops, responded to wrong post.. oh well. -1, Distracted.
Re:Am I the only one? by MxTxL · 2003-12-05 03:17 · Score: 1

I've done the monochrome thing, and our C64 had a tape drive, but i had to look up the Robert Smith/Steven Morrissey reference.

Turns out, Robert Smith is the singer for 'The Cure', and Morrissey (didn't actually use a first name, kinda like Madonna) was the singer from 'The Smiths'.
Re:Am I the only one? by mitheral · 2003-12-05 03:24 · Score: 1

Most average people were still getting their net connection thru work or school. Not all schools were quite so liberal as to carry a full feed and most businesses didn't carry _any_ alt groups. One of the reasons r.a.e was so popular, it slipped in under the radar.
Re:Am I the only one? by mfender9 · 2003-12-05 03:26 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
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.
Re:Am I the only one? by mitheral · 2003-12-05 03:28 · Score: 1

Me too. and that was an upgrade from my friend's 150. Geez was that thing glacial. 'Course my original modem was hooked to a CoCo2 thru acustical couplers. I think my ethernet card has more RAM than that thing.
Re:Am I the only one? by the_mad_poster · 2003-12-05 03:29 · Score: 1

No, close, but not quite. They were slipping down the drain at the time, but they still had a decent share of the installation base. Every PC in my school up until about 2nd grade was an Apple. Heck, I didn't even HEAR of Microsoft or touch an x86 arch until 2nd or 3rd grade. By the time I got to middle school four years later, there wasn't a single Apple system in the entire DISTRICT. By my first programming class, we were using BASIC on old 286 systems with DOS.

You know, somebody else brought up Webcrawler. Man does that bring back memories. Once that went down the tubes I started using Excite, which sucked too, but not as bad. Then, Google came along and all was well with the world again.

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Re:Am I the only one? by jumpingfred · 2003-12-05 03:30 · Score: 1

I remember getting a 2400 baud modem to upgrade from my 300 baud modem.
Re:Am I the only one? by armb · 2003-12-05 03:32 · Score: 1

> We carried shoeboxes full of punched cards over to the card reader. Woe unto those unfortunate souls who dropped theirs.

Put labels on every card so you sort them easily. Okay, it makes it look like you write BASIC, but it saves a lot of time when you drop that showbox.

Though I guess it's a bit late to suggest that now.

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Re:Am I the only one? by mitheral · 2003-12-05 03:33 · Score: 1

Not all that old. For the logest time you didn't even need an ID to post. I didn't sign up for an ID until slashboxes were available.
Re:Am I the only one? by christopher240240 · 2003-12-05 03:45 · Score: 2, Informative

mosaic
Re:Am I the only one? by zootread · 2003-12-05 03:46 · Score: 1

I never did get into downloading anything from Usenet binary groups. To me it was a fantastic waste of time. I suppose if you had some program to download all the parts and put it back together it would be fine, but I never had anything like that. So manually downloading picture part 1 of 256 (where parts 30, 55, and 75 were probably missing), uudecoding them, and then cat'ing them back together was pointless.

One of the UNIX newsreaders was pretty good for this. I can't remember whether it was nn or tin or what. You only had to select all the posts for a particular file, then when you saved it it would be automatically decoded. I think it could even handle more than one file, so you select all the posts you want decoded. It did take a little work, but it was most certainly worth it when you're a teenager with no other good porn sources.

Then when I started using PPP and ran Newsrobot, it was like the flowing tap water I was talking about. Newsrobot would go in and download everything, and automatically decode it all. No work necessary, all you had to do was select what newsgroups you wanted. Of course, there was the problem of sorting through the mess afterwords. And some people would intentionally post some things you really didn't want to see (much worse than even Goatse).

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Re:Am I the only one? by rifter · 2003-12-05 03:48 · Score: 1

Not all that old. For the logest time you didn't even need an ID to post. I didn't sign up for an ID until slashboxes were available.

I signed up for an id in order to change the preferences when they made the defaults suck. Before that the default display for the site just happened to be what I wanted anyway.
Re:Am I the only one? by zootread · 2003-12-05 03:54 · Score: 1

Most average people were still getting their net connection thru work or school. Not all schools were quite so liberal as to carry a full feed and most businesses didn't carry _any_ alt groups. One of the reasons r.a.e was so popular, it slipped in under the radar.

You're probably right, though my local university had a full feed, totally uncensored. They had more porn newsgroups on there than the local commercial ISP's even did, and their archives were bigger as well.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:58 · Score: 0

"We carried shoeboxes full of punched cards over to the card reader. Woe unto those unfortunate souls who dropped theirs."

I still remember, during peak seasons (everyone having to hand in a programming assingment on the same day) bringing a deck of cards to the drop-off pigeon-holes in the morning and getting it back, along with the resulting listing, in the late after-noon, only to discover to my great horror that my job ABENDed due to a JCL error. Aww crap -- run quick to the card punches, correct the invalid job cards, have a _really good look_ through the deck to catch typos of dammaged cards and bringing it back to the operator along with a cup of coffee as a bribe, hoping he/she'd sneak your job RSN so that you could go home with SOMETHING.

I tell you, batch processing with punch cards (along with non-correcting typewriters (man, these Underwoods were built sturdy!)) could do wonders for your typing accuracy...
Re:Am I the only one? by banzai51 · 2003-12-05 04:16 · Score: 1

..and I played Oregon Trail through a teletype. Blah!
Re:Am I the only one? by rifter · 2003-12-05 04:22 · Score: 1

That's why you always took a wide black magic marker and made a diagonal stripe across the top of the cards!
They taught us that in CS242 (370 Assembler)

Man! It took until 242 to teach you that? I bet you were pissed when you thought of all the man-years wasted in 101-241 dropping cards! :)
Re:Am I the only one? by rifter · 2003-12-05 04:46 · Score: 1

next you'll tell us about your grey pubic hair.

You can probably see it on geezerse.cx! :P
Re:Am I the only one? by SuperQ · 2003-12-05 05:06 · Score: 3, Funny

bah.. I'm under 500.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 05:17 · Score: 0

We had BASIC, and if you were lucky, you had Pascal.

We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.

Your post made a lot of sense up until this point; I mean, those languages are way more advanced than BASIC.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 05:21 · Score: 0

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.
And why should it be a big deal to know about some random webcam? I've been using the net since I got my first unix account at university in 1991 and I've never heard of her. It's just a web cam.
Re:Am I the only one? by rifter · 2003-12-05 05:34 · Score: 1

Turns out, Robert Smith is the singer for 'The Cure', and Morrissey (didn't actually use a first name, kinda like Madonna) was the singer from 'The Smiths'.

Good you looked that up for me. Since the poster linked them with ice cream I was thinking that they were Ben and Jerry's real names.
Re:Am I the only one? by ynohoo · 2003-12-05 05:39 · Score: 1

nah, just the 80's. Nothing important :)

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Re:Am I the only one? by RatBastard · 2003-12-05 05:42 · Score: 1

Hey! Get offa my lawn! Danged kids. No respect these days.

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Re:Am I the only one? by javaxman · 2003-12-05 05:50 · Score: 1

When I was your age, we loaded programs onto our computers using cassette tapes.
oooh, that hurt.
I'm still not as old as the punchcard guy, though.
But, dude, thanks to South Park, everyone will always know who Robert Smith is. Morrissey, on the other hand, always was and always will be the idol of a smaller cult following.
Dude, you had Pascal ? Under what OS ? You're too young to be talking about being old...
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:00 · Score: 0

AND YOU WERE STUPID.
Re:Am I the only one? by renehollan · 2003-12-05 06:03 · Score: 1

We carried shoeboxes full of punched cards over to the card reader. Woe unto those unfortunate souls who dropped theirs.
Yes, life was brutal until someone got the brilliant idea of using columns 73 to 80 for card sequence numbers that the Fortran compiler conveniently ignored.
Beware the 029 card punch, for the CDC 6600 only liked cards punched on the 026 card punch. :D gets ya every time!

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:04 · Score: 0

9800 baud eh? *magical* my _9600_ baud modem gave me the warm fuzzies.
p3
Re:Am I the only one? by benzapp · 2003-12-05 06:29 · Score: 1

I don't remember 9800, but I am only 25 and I used to have a 16,800 HST courier, which I remember upgrading to 21.6 and feeling so elite!

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Re:Am I the only one? by rifter · 2003-12-05 06:48 · Score: 1

Dude, you're too YOUNG to remember when Apple ruled the world... ;-) Oh the good old days, when Archie was king and gopher ruled the web...

The latter was the case up until the mid 1990's. The former was true at least through the 80's, though even in 1994 I remember how the PowerPC was going to blow everything else out of the water according to CNN. Of course, CNN tried to make it sound like the PowerPC would, of itself, run x86, 68k, and PPC code seamlessly. Obviously this turned out not to be true.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:08 · Score: 0

How is this interesting? It's nothing more than a 22-year old trying to win this pissing contest.
Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:10 · Score: 0

9800 baud modem?

I only had a 9600 baud.

Just kidding, it was a 2400....
Re:Am I the only one? by Trogre · 2003-12-05 07:31 · Score: 1

Luxury.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:35 · Score: 0

So when is Linus gonna set up a cam and get naked while coding some kernel schedulers? Can I buy him stuff from his wishlist while I read his blog about libc calls?
Re:Am I the only one? by You're+All+Wrong · 2003-12-05 07:52 · Score: 1

"In 1994 it was hard to find any good free porn sites."

Hahah, someone else who never heard of FSP! (a "push" version of FTP) There were plenty of FSP sites with gigs of porn. And that was when gigs was a lot.

Of course, abpe and asp were a continuous stream of porn too.

Or so a friend told me, eheh.

YAW.

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Re:Am I the only one? by You're+All+Wrong · 2003-12-05 07:58 · Score: 1

Why was everyone using 300 baud?
1200/75 half duplex made so much more sense.
Or at least to me it did. 75 is faster than my
typing speed, after all

ZX Spectrum + "Prism" modem, IIRC. Bliss.

YAW.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Wolfrider · 2003-12-05 08:06 · Score: 1

Slashdot started doing login-benefits in what, 1998? 99? I'd be ~26-27 back then.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Wolfrider · 2003-12-05 08:10 · Score: 1

My family RODE the Oregon Trail - our wagon was attacked by Indians, you insensitive clod!!

j.k. ;-)

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Re:Am I the only one? by shockwav1 · 2003-12-05 08:18 · Score: 1

You had tin cans and plastic? Maaaaan!
Re:Am I the only one? by demon · 2003-12-05 08:41 · Score: 1

That was "Chips & Dips", actually.

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Re:Am I the only one? by demon · 2003-12-05 08:43 · Score: 1

Mine's not quite 3 digits - but pretty damn close. I still remember Taco soliciting people to come and read his site on IRC. Hah. I held off getting an ID until talk started going around about making Anonymous Cowards less visible, then I got one...

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Re:Am I the only one? by fucksl4shd0t · 2003-12-05 09:22 · Score: 1

Goddamn you're young, dude. Strike me as not even being able to remember the Apple II/C64/Atari (whatever, Atari model numbers are irrelevant) wars going on. Remember Atari suing Amiga? So Commodore bought them? Hell, I remember when the 2600 came out and it was HOT SHIT. Paddles! What a worthless intervace. Heh.
I remember the old Mac commercials, saying "What's the point of point and click?" ANd then when the Amiga came out saying "We've got Macs beat hands down." And we did. :)

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Re:Am I the only one? by strike2867 · 2003-12-05 09:36 · Score: 0

Roland id:61 w/ 27 comments. Amazing.

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Re:Am I the only one? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:03 · Score: 0

Where I work we still use all of the above !!! :)
Re:Am I the only one? by SuperQ · 2003-12-05 10:45 · Score: 1

yea.. back in college, he got up earlier than I did.. or was it stay up later.. my ID is where it is because of my sleep pattern for the day /. opened up for user accounts.
Re:Am I the only one? by JDWTopGuy · 2003-12-05 14:28 · Score: 1

I once got an account on jennicam by guessing a number. Definitely one of the top ten freaky things that have happened to me.

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Re:Am I the only one? by JDWTopGuy · 2003-12-05 14:30 · Score: 1

It's still possible to run a BBS. Just something you might want to keep in mind.

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Re:Am I the only one? by JDWTopGuy · 2003-12-05 14:40 · Score: 1

We didn't have any smoke OR plastic! We programmed in NullTran, PLminus1, and, uh, French!

String hadn't been invented yet, so we used courier pigeons. Bandwidth was OK, but you haven't seen lag until your pigeon decides to sit on a power line for an hour.

Damn youngsters! Oh wait...

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Re:Am I the only one? by UltimateZer0 · 2003-12-05 18:48 · Score: 0

"Worked in the coal mine 22 hours a day for just half a cent! Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent when I was your age!"

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Re:Am I the only one? by Bob+Uhl · 2003-12-05 19:00 · Score: 1

I think I finally signed up when /. stopped remembering my info, or switched to some sucky defaults, or something. I remember how when user accounts first came around, I didn't bother because /. wasn't going to last (kiddos, this is why I don't play the stock market...). Then when I did get an account, I was bitter because it was so high. Still am, to tell the truth. Oh well.
Re:Am I the only one? by 1iar_parad0x · 2003-12-05 22:52 · Score: 1

Back in my day we didn't have this abstract stuff [introduction to a book]. No sir. No turing machines and no compilers. We had to hard code our algorithms. We didn't have punch cards either. I had to manipulate the very laws of physics. My computers were huge, took large grants from the government to build. Heck, one of my employees (a woman) had to pretend to be a man just to find work.

--Charles Babbage

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Re:Am I the only one? by DG · 2003-12-07 12:25 · Score: 1

Where's my goddamned prune juice?

And why is there an onion tied to my belt?

DG

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Re:Am I the only one? by banzai51 · 2003-12-12 09:23 · Score: 1

Oh yeah? Well Go Mohawks! Go Soiux!
j/k too. :-)

end of life, universe and the internet by martin · 2003-12-04 21:38 · Score: 5, Interesting

OK
webcrawler starts to suck
altavista goes static
google has problems with retricting searches (until recently try getting info on baseball in the UK!), bloggers etc
napster goes legit (but available only in the USofA)
MP3.com get bought by C-NEt and all the content 'gets lost'
now Jenni-cam is to be no more

well that's it, I'm off to desert to eat sand, the internet is dead :-)

Re:end of life, universe and the internet by tankdilla · 2003-12-04 22:02 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by martin · 2003-12-04 22:14 · Score: 1

I wondered how many people would remember webcrawler....

Mind you I've some quite 'mature' engineers here on /. - people who 'saw' the first demo of the first mouse back in the late 60's for example..
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by dunstan · 2003-12-04 22:23 · Score: 2

Add to this:

"What's new with NCSA Mosaic" closes
Mosaic ported to Windows (3.1)
Email addresses in GB start putting the "uk" at the end rather than the front (DNS rather than Coloured book style)
Getting proper internet connectivity no longer requiring justifying why your traffic should run across NFSnet
Sun start using all ones as the broadcast address rather than all zeroes
Sun put disk partitionng utilities into the OS rather than having to boot "stand/diag"
DEC bolt a TCP/IP stack onto VMS - yuk

and ...

PC's start having more than 640K of memory

Dunstan

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by cheekyboy · 2003-12-04 22:39 · Score: 1

maybe the myan calender is right, everything will shut its doors and go POOF in 2012.

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:18 · Score: -1

I preferred hotbot.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:44 · Score: 0

restricting your search to a specific country is easily achieved: add site:.uk to your search to limit it to domains ending in .uk.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by EvilFrog · 2003-12-05 01:23 · Score: 1

Hell, I remember Webcrawler, and I've only been on the web since around '95...
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by markhb · 2003-12-05 01:29 · Score: 2, Insightful

I wasn't a fan, but in the NS 1.1 days, remember all the buzz about... The Spot?

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by martin · 2003-12-05 01:39 · Score: 2, Funny

About the time I started - welcome old timer...

A year on the internet is 10 years in real time...:-)
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by martin · 2003-12-05 01:43 · Score: 1

crikey long term memory copes with that...

what else was around at the time -

Jeff's nude of the month
Amazon started...
free content and without registration!!!
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by djward · 2003-12-05 02:31 · Score: 4, Interesting

I remember searching for pr0n on webcrawler. It was kinda funny: at one point early on I searched for "sex" and all that came up was a few Sex Pistols fan sites. A few months later I tried again, and got the results we all know and love. It just amazes me how fast smut exploded (splooged?) onto the internet.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by mdouglas · 2003-12-05 03:03 · Score: 1

I remember when Usenet didn't suck.

I remember when instant messaging was a combination of finger and ytalk.

internet dork since fall 93 here.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by ckaminski · 2003-12-05 03:20 · Score: 1

Even after The Spot ended in what, '98? It was still online for quite some time, maybe a year or three. I was getting a bit nostalgic for some pictures of Tara (was it?, memory fuzzy) and went looking for it a few weeks back. All gone... :(
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by jdreed1024 · 2003-12-05 03:37 · Score: 1

Getting proper internet connectivity no longer requiring justifying why your traffic should run across NFSnet
You mean NSFnet. You shouldn't have to justify using NFS. Well, on second thought...

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by mitheral · 2003-12-05 03:37 · Score: 1

The thing I liked about webcrawler was that scrolling app they had that showed you what other people were searching for in real time. It was both educational and little bit ... disturbing.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by mitheral · 2003-12-05 03:53 · Score: 1

But that was after the september that never ended. You should have seen Usenet before that, S:N ratio was much better.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by dunstan · 2003-12-05 04:15 · Score: 1

I meant NSFnet - typo. Show how long ago that my fingers automatically put those three letters in that order.

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:22 · Score: 0

Usenet had the best S/N whenever [I personally discovered it]!

I think if you back and check the groups you were reading on Google, it wasn't so hot in 92, 91, or 90 either - same beaten to death topics, kooks, trolls and so on. The difference was back then people thought the asses could learn etiquette.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by Saint+Stephen · 2003-12-05 06:26 · Score: 1

I remember in fall semester 1993 / spring semester 1994 when Yahoo was a static html page.
"yahoo.html" and it wasn't that long.

I remember HTML 1.0, before you could have inline images. The first month or two, the most popular thing on the net (besides physics papers) were "X's list of links), just a bullet list of hyperlinks.

They were imitating the "gopher" style pages. The first yahoo.html page was about 50 links.

And shit, that was like, so nouveau.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by Optical-i · 2003-12-05 06:38 · Score: 1

When the goatse guy goes offline, we'll now the end has come.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:55 · Score: 0

I can remember gopher and ten minute page loads in Mosaic back in High School. It was so cool to see pictures on a webpage. Hotbot was better than webcrawler BTW.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by Dever · 2003-12-05 10:14 · Score: 1

speaking of 1.1 era activities, i was noodling around a few weeks ago and searched for some old haven addresses i used to hang out at, namely opium den at hemi.com and omnisolve.com...

i came across one years EdgarEdgar awards too...

oh well...i think it's illusions that's still up, if anyones familiar with there.

kinda miss those days, friendships and intellectually stimulating discourse came alot easier it seems...

damn idiot populace, get off my laaaaaaaaaawn!

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by PalmKiller · 2003-12-05 11:03 · Score: 1

Ah yes, I remember, I started mid 94 on the concentric 800 number, before that I was on compuserve. Well unless you count that holonet uucp email account via a fidonet bbs in early 94 using gigo and toss to convert the messages. I was on the arpanet in 1986, does that count (just a few universities and airforce bases and such on that one, I was in 2nd year college then, man I am getting old)? We were using ibm iron then, took the whole basement of the library, the terminals were on the 14th floor of the library (cabling ran up the elevator shaft).

Rambling on, way off topic:

I was dialing into it from my room via my Atari 600XL with 16K of ram (that I did the pin lift on new dram upgrade on for 64K of ram) and a 300 baud modem, and still later my Atari 130XE with 128K of ram that I had hacked up to a whopping 1M of banked ram (it came with 128K of which was banked into a 8K window (only 48K was directly accessible with 8K behind the rom area (8K rom, 8K rom slot), it was much like ems memory windowing). They both had 1.79Mhz 6502 cpus and various custom chips including sound processor/pci and a programmable graphics processor (sprites and collision detection and color cycling/timing in that one), and a 80K or so 5.25" floppy drive. Ahh, the good old days :).
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by prockcore · 2003-12-05 12:00 · Score: 1

Anyone remember that site that listed all 200 websites in existance?
Re:end of life, universe and the internet by Lord_Dweomer · 2003-12-05 12:24 · Score: 1

"A year on the internet is 10 years in real time...:-)"
Although you were joking, What you said holds a lot of truth. Technology speeds everything up, and the internet has sped things up so incredibly that watching the internet is kind of like watching the world over a long period of time on fast-forward. And its not so much the pace of innovation, but rather the speed that the information about it travels at.
I for one feel priveledged to live in such a time where we can be part of such a cultural information overload, its brilliant to watch.

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by JDWTopGuy · 2003-12-05 14:51 · Score: 1

Who's the (un?) lucky geek who got a slashdot account immediately after you?

(Hint: User ID #)

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Re:end of life, universe and the internet by nutsy · 2003-12-05 15:30 · Score: 1

Some silly person who used his e-mail address as his login, apparently.

Let me guess by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:39 · Score: -1, Flamebait

didn't read the article but I doubt it mentions it...

She's getting too fat for the cam ?

I'm not trying to troll here, seems like a reasonable thing to do. But anyways,

Re:Let me guess by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:53 · Score: 0

Your right.
I've had a JenniCam Slashbox for years and as days went by I've seen her her progressively fatter and fatter until she became the queen of cellulite that she is today. I mean, you see her exercise on the cam and whatnot. I wonder what happened. She isn't old or anything. How do you let yourself go like that?
I'm taking Denis Leary's advice. First morning I wake up and I can't see my dick, I stop eating!
Re:Let me guess by dunstan · 2003-12-04 22:11 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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Re:Let me guess by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:02 · Score: -1

Just because you can post anonymously, doesn't mean you have to be rude.
Re:Let me guess by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:20 · Score: 0

Real women have curves. This can be true. But that doesn't mean they have to look like Budda.

When the desire to rub a woman's belly for luck is more powerful than the desire to rub a woman's belly for a chance at getting lucky, she may well be more woman, but she's not more womanly.

The only difference between a fat chick and eunich is, given enough alchohol, a fat chick can get laid.
Re:Let me guess by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The only difference between a fat chick and eunich is, given enough alchohol, a fat chick can get laid.

And the similarity between a fat chick and a moped is that they're both fun to ride, until your friends see you.

Sad to see Jennicam gone... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The Slashdot Song
by propstoalldeadhomiez

Rap with me, bitch

Boom, boom, boom!
Nigger WHAAAAA?

Fuck that shit!
Fuck Slashdot!
All you liberals try to censor me
But really you fucking suck Malda's dick
Fucking hypocrites
Back that shit up!

Boom, boom, boom!
Nigger WHAAAAA?
Boom, boom, boom, BOOM!
Nigger!
Boom, boom, boom!
Nigger WHAAAAA?

Fuck the moderators!
Fuck that shit!
Trackin' my username like a fucking dog tag!
Fuck privacy, fuck my rights
Go fucking hypocrisy!

Boom, boom, boom!
Nigger WHAAAAA?
Boom, boom, boom, BOOM!
Nigger!
Boom, boom, boom!
Nigger WHAAAAA?

Fuck that bullshit
Lie and say we want fucking privacy
But track every fucking troll
Banning them 'cause they don't spout liberal bullshit
Well fuck that shit!

Boom, boom, boom!
Nigger WHAAAAA?
Boom, boom, boom, BOOM!
Nigger!
Boom, boom, boom!
Nigger WHAAAAA?

Can't silence this you niggers!
Can't ban the truth!
The place is here!
The time is now!
FUCK SLASHDOT!

BOOM!
NIGGER!

Closing when? by phalse+phace · 2003-12-04 21:40 · Score: 5, Funny

JenniCam has announced that it is closing permanently on New Year's Eve.

Um... I think she'll be closing sooner than that once we get through /.ing her.

Re:Closing when? by Hakubi_Washu · 2003-12-04 22:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Talk about GangBang... :-)
Re:Closing when? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:25 · Score: 0

Imagine her web counter value :D OVERFLOW
Re:Closing when? by ryanw · 2003-12-04 23:57 · Score: 1, Funny

Um... I think she'll be closing sooner than that once we get through /.ing her.
Ya right, she will now decide to stay cause all the hits put her back in business.

WARNING /. abuses collected AC data tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

WARNING, SLASHDOT NOW TIES AC COMMENTS WITH USER

When you are logged in,/. ties your user account to any Anonymous Coward postings you make... Thus they know who posted it. To demonstrate this:

Get mod points.
Post an AC comment while logged in
Change your dynamic ip, clear all cookies
Log back in and try to moderate your AC comment... you can't!!!

Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.

This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.

Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.

They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.

Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.

So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the ass. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.

Protect yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy to delete all private data). Thank you.

I didn't know :-( by dtfinch · 2003-12-04 21:41 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

Re:I didn't know :-( by Bryan_W · 2003-12-04 23:42 · Score: 1

If you need a somewhat free (guestcam/subcribercam setup) cam you should check out the sex club
Re:I didn't know :-( by dspyder · 2003-12-05 05:11 · Score: 1

Coolest feature EVER!

What will replace it? :)

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Closing Jennicam? by xeno_gearz · 2003-12-04 21:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

On one hand, I could lament the "loss" of an internet mainstay of whom many of us were aware of. On the other hand, webcams have become so overdone. Every teenage girl and her best friend have one. Consequently, this is played out. So who cares? I'm sure "Jenny" has realized she has better things to do than pose on a webcam.

On the other hand, perhaps Jenny's subscriptions were dropping as creepy men were finding other girls' webcams to ogle. Maybe Jenny realized that her extended 15 minutes of fame are finally up. No disrespect though. She certainly seems to have garnered all the attention she could from a webcam.

Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by Vee+Ecks · 2003-12-04 21:46 · Score: 3, Interesting

"Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?" Yep. It's all been downhill since then. The only thing that would have been worse than jennicam would have been if Adam Curry, fresh from freaking out and running away with MTV's domain name (if you remember that, you're a real web old timer) had started the first 24-hour nekkid cam, and he'd been the star.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Meowing · 2003-12-04 21:48 · Score: 5, Informative

Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?
Close, sort of. it was at the other Cambridge.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by ElektroHolunder · 2003-12-04 22:37 · Score: 1

Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?
It is still available; German mag SPIEGEL Online bought the borked original machine, fixed it and put it back online here It was from Cambridge, btw.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by JimBobJoe · 2003-12-04 23:02 · Score: 4, Interesting

On the other hand, webcams have become so overdone. Every teenage girl and her best friend have one.

And this is indeed true...and we can thank Jenni for that. I remember reading and finding the site in 1996 (which is when I first got broadband) and this was pretty hot shit at that time. Quite innovative--I believe I read about her in Wired. The fact that she lasted this long is actually amazing...and is a testament to her patience.

Not only did she invent this idea of camwhore (though camwhores usually perform on camera and eventually turn it off...at least, there won't be a good picture if they're not at the computer) Jenni wired her house with cameras (though that seems to have dropped off with time.)

This was of course a form of porn (figuratively and literally) and she might have even made a bit of profit in these years...much like the porn industry.

Camwhores still represent a troublesome frontier. 16 year old girls everywhere are taking off their clothes for free. Guys of all ages watch (and even if there weren't any watching, the girls would be doing it anyway.) That's gotta keep Ashcroft up late at night.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Lord+Azrael · 2003-12-04 23:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

"Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?" Yep. It's all been downhill since then.

The German Magazine "Der Spiegel" bought the Coffee Machine (yes, its the real one!) and has it online now for a year or two, don't know exactly. Here it is:

Coffee Cam

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:40 · Score: -1

Warning! Parent is NOT a link to goatse!
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:02 · Score: 0

Alright, who didn't refill the damn coffee machine? I hate that.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Zontar+The+Mindless · 2003-12-05 00:39 · Score: 4, Funny

16 year old girls everywhere are taking off their clothes for free. Guys of all ages watch (and even if there weren't any watching, the girls would be doing it anyway.) That's gotta keep Ashcroft up late at night.
Nice double entendre there at the end, mate.

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by toastyman · 2003-12-05 00:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

Just a note...

I (believe) that I'm the one who originally coined the term "camwhore". (My original registration of camwhores.com/camwhore.com predates any mention of it in google/usenet/archive.org, and the oldest web archive I can find is an IRC log of me).

The word "camwhores" itself was sort of a pun... Sure it had the sexual connotations, but we all were talking about how people who like the attention their webcams gave them struggled with the moral impact of showing random strangers on the internet more of their intimate life than most of their friends have seen. whore n. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.

A whole industry of webcam portals, from Jennicam to Stile Project's old cam portals back in the 90's(which evolved into camwhores.com) to the huge sites that are out there now have really changed a lot of how porn works. You didn't have to sell your soul and have sex with strangers in a studio to play with your exhibitionist side. You don't have to make a cheesy home video and try to get your friends to watch it. The live nature of webcam porn lets the viewer interact with the person in front of the cam directly. And this isn't just a fringe minority either, do you really think the hundreds of thousands of webcams sold are just used to videoconference with grandma? When Gateway bundled a webcam with most of their college-geared desktops a year or so ago, the number of applicants on our site alone doubled.

However, the reason for this whole post(not just because of my personal involvement with the word)... The whole "Camwhores" scene is NOT about underage girls. All the major webcam portals, adult hosting sites, one-on-one show sites, and everyone else are really really strict about age verification and policing their content.

The last thing we need is Ashcroft running TV ads saying that webcams fund terrorists. :)

Anyway, Jenni was surely one of the big pioneers of this whole thing, and I wish her the best.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by stefanb · 2003-12-05 01:14 · Score: 1

Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?
German weekly Der Spiegel (think Time or Newsweek) did buy the Trojan Room coffee machine, and has it up and running again (after refurbishment). I was even lucky enough to have a cup when I was visiting them some time ago :-)
Re:Closing Jennicam? by blkros · 2003-12-05 01:21 · Score: 1

Dude! You had broadband in 1996?

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by ykardia · 2003-12-05 01:33 · Score: 3, Informative

The Coffee Cam was bought by the German magazine SPIEGEL-ONLINE, and was put up on their page for a while. They still have it in their virtual museum
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:35 · Score: 0

On one hand, (...). On the other hand (...) On the other hand (...)

How many hands do you have, dude?
Re:Closing Jennicam? by BRSQUIRRL · 2003-12-05 02:07 · Score: 1

I just wanted to personally thank you for actually using the correct term ("double entendre") instead of "euphemism". I think 99% of the population thinks that euphemism means "a veiled sexual reference".

Sorry...just a pet peeve.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by halo8 · 2003-12-05 02:20 · Score: 1, Funny

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

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by Lifewolf · 2003-12-05 02:41 · Score: 1

The German Magazine "Der Spiegel" bought the Coffee Machine (yes, its the real one!) and has it online now for a year or two, don't know exactly.

Now if only they'd put the Rome Lab Snowball Cam back online.

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:46 · Score: 0

When Gateway bundled a webcam with most of their college-geared desktops a year or so ago, the number of applicants on our site alone doubled.

Refreshing the page every 5 seconds likely does wonders for your hits. Wow, popups, too!
Re:Closing Jennicam? by jandrese · 2003-12-05 02:48 · Score: 2, Insightful

Most people who had "broadband" in 1996 had .edu in their domain. I was sadly not one of those people. All my school had was a digital PBX (ROLMphones) that allowed you to make a 19200 baud PPP connection through the serial port on the back of the phone. The 28800 (and 33600) baud modems that were common at the time were faster.

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by the_mad_poster · 2003-12-05 02:55 · Score: 1

"Doing it." - Euphism. Clearly understood way of stating something potentially offensive or unpleasant "nicely".

Other good examples - "ethnic cleansing" (mass murder), "number one" (take a piss).

think 99% of the population thinks that euphemism means "a veiled sexual reference".

I happen to think that 99% of the population is comprised of idiots. I don't think it's a coing-ki-dink that our numbers coincide. :)

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by Lothar+0 · 2003-12-05 03:17 · Score: 1

Actually, it's a triple entendre when you think about it.

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by willabr · 2003-12-05 03:21 · Score: 1

Stile, Your job is being a porn site. Just Another Porn site. (JAP). As far as the cam thing not being about underage girls, let's take a look at a few links from your site: Teens on 12" Cocks Teen sex Vids Teen Cam Vids Teen Cum Sluts Latina Teen Sex Teenie Files Bunny Teens Teen Tiger Tgp I'm sure you check out all the ages on your site. Johns watching and waiting. Porno is ok. It answers a need I guess. no big deal, Jenny cam was about her checking things out and you can watch if you want, not about seeing her tits. The concept then was capitalized on by pronograhers. Your site is about click throughs, pay for porno, You invented camwhores... and Al gore invented the internet. Stile still sucks
Re:Closing Jennicam? by toastyman · 2003-12-05 04:03 · Score: 1

I'm not Stile, but I can see how you might have assumed that. Anyway... Yes, we do maintain proof-of-age records (in accordance with 18 USC 2257) for all content we produce or license. Example... All adult sites are required to, and you can contact the people listed on there if you have any doubts. Same with any DVD or magazine you buy.

About half the people on our site never get naked either. Adult oriented at times, but the webcam community isn't just about showing breasts.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by daviddennis · 2003-12-05 05:14 · Score: 4, Interesting

I think I was the first user of the JenniCam. I knew her from her original Tour of Her Body web site, and had a mad crush on her for some time.

Anyway, she told me she got a cam, and primitive software that loaded a new picture every minute, and she was showing it to me hosted off her dorm room Mac.

The images were black and white, and at that time Jenni was a really hot-looking girl. (I haven't looked lately, so I won't comment on her current status). It began as something private, a special moment or two shared between her and her friends.

For a while I even hosted her site, but eventually had to move due to the huge bandwidth use once she took it public.

For her, it was never about the money, it was about showing her life, as it was. I admired her for that and still do.

But she did wind up changing. For a long time, I had an archive featuring her most charming pictures, and if you were persistent enough, you could see her naughtiest. But she made me take it down, with a remarkably cold note threatening legal action. I thought that was contrary to the original spirit of it, but since I didn't want to hurt her, I respected her wishes.

So yes, today I shed a tear for her innovation, her charm and her creation. What a long strange trip it's been.

I wonder what she will do next ...

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by dspyder · 2003-12-05 05:15 · Score: 1

5 points if you can remember the name of the Internet company he tried to start in an attempt to retain the domain name...

Give up? It was Metaverse. Adam Curry was/is a great guy... one of the early early Internet pioneers way before MTV decided they even needed a website he was trying to build a music community that is way better than mtv.com currently is.

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by hondo77 · 2003-12-05 06:32 · Score: 1

The images were black and white, and at that time Jenni was a really hot-looking girl.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers when she was hot. I was doubting my memory because nobody else remembered. Ah yes, the Tour of Her Body...

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by benzapp · 2003-12-05 06:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

She sounds like a real bitch. Good riddance.

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by colonwq · 2003-12-05 08:04 · Score: 1

The coffee cam was good. So was the fishtank cam.
Ahh, the day of the scrolling display cam where there was a CGI script to submit your own text to be displayed. Wasn't that at Netscape before the open sourcing or AOL? :wq

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by JimBobJoe · 2003-12-05 08:17 · Score: 1

You had broadband in 1996?

As noted in the other post, I had .edu in my domain. I had just started Ohio State, and the "honors" dorms had broadband (those of us who wanted it paid $20/month.)

By the time I moved out, in 1997, Time Warner Columbus was one of the first in the nation to offer cable internet. So I haven't gone back to a phone since.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Drakonian · 2003-12-05 08:22 · Score: 1

Wow. We are in the presence of a true visionary!

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by PCM2 · 2003-12-05 09:24 · Score: 1

Most people who had "broadband" in 1996 had .edu in their domain.
In 1996, I worked for a business that had a T1. Where were you?

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by yarbo · 2003-12-05 09:34 · Score: 1

Kevin!!! ps, I'm an SPFer
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Zontar+The+Mindless · 2003-12-05 10:06 · Score: 1

Cheers, mate -- you've made my day. :D

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:13 · Score: 0

Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?

Nope it was at Cambridge University in the UK:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

I recommend reading Eurpoean University websites, you get to read things years before they are discovered by MIT !!! e.g. Linux :-)
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:15 · Score: 0

On the other hand, perhaps Jenny's subscriptions were dropping as creepy men were finding other girls' webcams to ogle.

After getting 7 years older I hear that Jenni's subs weren't the only things beginning to drop downwards.... !
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Vee+Ecks · 2003-12-05 10:20 · Score: 1

But...but I didn't give up and I did remember the name "Metaverse." You wave points in my face and cruelly retract them, a hard taskmaster indeed.
I wouldn't know if Curry's a good guy or not. I still think trying to keep "mtv.com" just because he registered it for the network was weasely, and suspect it was just an early run at domain squatting and a presumed bigger severence package (and his posturing as some kind of "people's champion" was irritating as hell--how dare he steal pages from the Apple playbook?), but that's neither here nor there. I think we can all agree that adamcam.org would have been frightening, indeed.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Vee+Ecks · 2003-12-05 10:22 · Score: 1

Oh, good god. Nothing underscores sarcasm like forgetting to write a closing tag. I may as well have submitted my post in ALL CAPS or something.
I need more coffee or a different sleep schedule.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:49 · Score: 0

Blah Blah Blah Blah....

After reading your post I coined a new term "cambore" !
Re:Closing Jennicam? by luckyguesser · 2003-12-05 11:17 · Score: 1

Apparently just enough to still type with 2 hands...

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by prockcore · 2003-12-05 12:05 · Score: 1

I still have my 3c59x from 1995 when I had my broadband .edu access... poor little half-duplex piece of crap.
Re:Closing Jennicam? by Lord_Dweomer · 2003-12-05 12:29 · Score: 1

"I (believe) that I'm the one who originally coined the term "camwhore". (My original registration of camwhores.com/camwhore.com predates any mention of it in google/usenet/archive.org, and the oldest web archive I can find is an IRC log of me)."
Only on Slashdot will you find rocket scientists and MIT professors having intelligent discussions with the creators of www.camwhores.com and www.autopr0n.com. What a world we live in.

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Re:Closing Jennicam? by guacamolefoo · 2003-12-09 17:25 · Score: 1

she was showing it to me hosted off her dorm room Mac.

Dickinson College -- home to many amazing women: Jenni of Jennicam, Rosie O'Donnell (who played on the softball team), and.....my mom.

Heh.

GF.

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So how about it... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:43 · Score: 0

SUYT Jenni!

Slashdotted.. article text by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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by propstoalldeadhomiez

Rap with me, bitch

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Nigger WHAAAAA?

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All you liberals try to censor me
But really you fucking suck Malda's dick
Fucking hypocrites
Back that shit up!

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Nigger WHAAAAA?
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Trackin' my username like a fucking dog tag!
Fuck privacy, fuck my rights
Go fucking hypocrisy!

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Nigger WHAAAAA?
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Lie and say we want fucking privacy
But track every fucking troll
Banning them 'cause they don't spout liberal bullshit
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Nigger WHAAAAA?
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Can't silence this you niggers!
Can't ban the truth!
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BOOM!
NIGGER!

Well that sucks... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:45 · Score: 5, Funny

...but there's always DarlCam.

Re:Well that sucks... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:53 · Score: 0

Sheesh!!

Mod parent down; that is WORSE than goatse..!
Re:Well that sucks... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:06 · Score: 0

Well no, it's not : instead of seeing a gross gaping shithole, you see a spiteful red-faced Mormon insider's-trading lunatic. Isn't it equally disgusting?
Re:Well that sucks... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:13 · Score: 0

OMG! Darl! This is so gross!

Really, be sure there is no-one behind you and watches.

You are a disgusting bunch of asshats.
Re:Well that sucks... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:55 · Score: -1

Actually. It's true!
Believe it or not, but I actually closed that page faster than I close goatse. The guy is not only butt-fugly, but is also disgusts me on a much deeper level.
Re:Well that sucks... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:33 · Score: 0

Wow, so did I. Scarry, huh?
Re:Well that sucks... by Zog+The+Undeniable · 2003-12-05 00:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Now that *is* scary...but I'd expect someone called "Darl" to have a mullet, drive a pickup, own several dangerous dogs, fire automatic weapons at road signs and listen to C&W. I suppose he can get back into all that when SCO goes down the tubes.

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Re:Well that sucks... by varslot · 2003-12-05 00:58 · Score: 1

That's not really an option for me. I prefer tits from ass.

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Re:Well that sucks... by Max+von+H. · 2003-12-05 01:00 · Score: 1

Funny, I had never seen his ugly face, and the very first second I saw the pic I wanted to beat him up...

Ruined 7 years of yoga! Darl, you bastard!

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Re:Well that sucks... by stuntpope · 2003-12-05 01:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Except for the mullet, that sounds like Hunter S. Thompson!
Re:Well that sucks... by Upphew · 2003-12-05 02:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You seem to imply that Darl doesn't suck...
Re:Well that sucks... by ViolentGreen · 2003-12-05 02:07 · Score: 0

Except for the mullet, that sounds like Hunter S. Thompson!

Well he is from Kentucky.

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Re:Well that sucks... by MuParadigm · 2003-12-05 02:42 · Score: 0

And your expectations weren't met how?
Re:Well that sucks... by jcuervo · 2003-12-05 12:39 · Score: 1

Unfortunately, DarlCam will also be closing around New Year's.

By the way, does anyone else see McBride and immediately think of Quasimodo? I don't know if it's a psychological thing with me or what...

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Re:Well that sucks... by qute · 2003-12-06 11:49 · Score: 1

Wow, first picture I saw of the man.

Damn he looks like a total scumbag. I guess for once you really can judge the book by its cover.

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too old? by Barbarian · 2003-12-04 21:47 · Score: 1

She must be too old to be a cam girl now. Assuming she was at least 18 when she started it, she's gotta be at least 25 now.

Re:too old? by xeniten · 2003-12-04 21:54 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Re:too old? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:57 · Score: 0

I've heard of that cam, I think I even went there once when I was bored (and remained bored after I went there).

Watching someone else's life just doesn't appeal to me I guess...

I mean, if you're not someone important, why would I want to watch you?
Re:too old? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:59 · Score: 0

Assuming she was at least 18 when she started it, she's gotta be at least 25 now.

You Sir are a genius : the above sentence means she could have started at an age anywhere from 18 to 120 years old, and is now 7 years older, as the article states.

what a splendid way of posting a comment while stating rigorously nothing new!
Re:too old? by mirko · 2003-12-04 22:09 · Score: -1, Redundant

She will be greatly missed.
No she won't.
Internet is only about dynamism.
Some come, some go.
I have heard about her for the first time today and I don't care about using a computer to learn about somebody's empty life without sharing ideas at all.
Her position was to enter your life without letting you enter hers : you could watch but not be seen, not share, she just realized 7 years after that she have not had a positive effect on others during all that time.
It's high time she began sharing something instead of posing.
BTW, I have not rtfa nor clicked on her home page link.

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Re:too old? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:13 · Score: 0

Hey, no need get on Captain Obvious's case.
Besides some people may not have known she was 18 when she started.
Re:too old? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:39 · Score: 0

A chick who expresses herself by showering, shitting and fucking on camera and sleeping nekkid. Sounds like a cam-girl to me. Go ahead and dress it up in whatever glorified way you want, but she's nothing more than some cam girl. The only exposure I had to her was a week long mpeg generated from every image that week that a friend had made. I found it very inane and couldn't imagine someone PAYING for access to that. Watching a chick be boring might be worth it if she were one of the hottest women in the world - or at least had an interesting job or homelife... or SOMETHING.

This is the first time jennicam has had two seconds of my mental energy in the last five years and it will probably be the last. I just don't care. I won't care. I sure as hell never DID care. She sucked every last bit of attention that she could out of the cam - and that's what web cam girls do. They're starved for attentionand need to share their every moment and every thought with every person that they can. This chick has been in every magazine, news paper and tv show imaginable and I just don't get it. I found the Cambridge coffee pot cam far more intellectually stimulating. More attractive and interesting, too.
Re:too old? by Ch_Omega · 2003-12-05 00:17 · Score: 1

Well, I seem to remember seeing alot more nudity the first years of jennicam, than the later years. She used to sit naked in front of the computer, as well as walking naked around her apartment and stuff. So at least she wasn't too far from todays camgirls, exept that she may not have done requests.
Re:too old? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:58 · Score: 0

Jennie is NOT a cam girl!!!
So all that whacking off was for nothing?
Re:too old? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:06 · Score: -1

-100 Troll, since I know that's what I'll get...

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.

The above statement is proof that Slashdot really does have an overwhelmingly male audience. Only guys could rationalize a woman getting paid to naked on camera for the pleasure of others as "a medium of self expression and speech" and "a social experiment".

Mourn the passing of JennieCam all you like, but call a spade a spade. She was a camwhore--the first camwhore, but a camwhore all the same.
Re:too old? by packetgeek · 2003-12-05 03:55 · Score: 1

Hi Jenni!

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Re:too old? by Wumpus · 2003-12-05 04:40 · Score: 1

Jennie is NOT a cam girl!!!

Sam: Let's go sailing!
Otto: Technically, we can't go sailing, because I don't have a sail. You can say "let's go floating" or something like that.
Sam: Oh, OK. Let's go sailing!
Otto: OK!
Re:too old? by Barbarian · 2003-12-05 08:30 · Score: 1

don't forget, sex on the camera too.
Re:too old? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 18:39 · Score: 0

I'm not sure why this is funny. I RTF-CNN-A, and it says her site, in 1999, received 3 million to 4 million visitors per day.

Someone with a website that has voyeuristic appeal and gets millions of visits per day could have sold-out to sex and turned themselves into a multi-millionaire many times over. For some reason she chose not to. She certainly has my respect for that.

Jenni is just maturing, is all by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2003-12-04 21:48 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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Re:Jenni is just maturing, is all by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:10 · Score: 0

CoffinCam.org
You misspelled seemerot.com.
Re:Jenni is just maturing, is all by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:53 · Score: 0

- MenopausyCam.org
A quick scan of the comments and this one choice caught my eye for a second, as I thought it said MenupussyCam.org.
Re:Jenni is just maturing, is all by heymjo · 2003-12-05 01:28 · Score: 1

wooo a coffincam , imagine seeing the corps rotten day after day.. now that must be worth a few banners i'm sure!
Re:Jenni is just maturing, is all by sharkey · 2003-12-05 02:30 · Score: 0
You left out Dex:
- HairyCam.com
- DonutCam.com
- LimpWilly.org
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Jumped the Shark... by abbamouse · 2003-12-04 21:48 · Score: 4, Interesting

...when she dissed her best friend who helped her move in next door by nabbing her fiance. Well, actually that was interesting but it turned into a long-term relationship. Dex just makes my skin crawl and the cam and journal got really boring after that. I mean, there's only so much gardening crap a person can read about. It was more interesting before she settled down. I think I've checked the cam like four times in the last year...

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Re:Jumped the Shark... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:08 · Score: 5, Funny

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...
Re:Jumped the Shark... by weave · 2003-12-04 22:09 · Score: 4, Informative

True. Also, around that same time she moved from DC to CA and got a day job, so most of the day there was nothing to look at except the occasional cat.
I'm still going to miss her.
Re:Jumped the Shark... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:30 · Score: 2, Insightful

I watched the Jennicam for about twelve minutes and never went back. What's so interesting about a less-than-attractive (no offense) chick sitting around in front of her camera all day, sleeping half nude at night and occasionally bonking an ugly boyfriend? I can't believe there were actually suckers willing to pay for a subscription to that. Lame lame LAME.

I'm sure the ONLY reason she's closing it is that she's no longer raking in the dough. Otherwise you can be absolutely certain she would still milk it.
Re:Jumped the Shark... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:04 · Score: -1, Funny

True. Also, around that same time she moved from DC to CA and got a day job, so most of the day there was nothing to look at except the occasional cat.
Oh MY GOSH! The thought of people paying to see a cat sitting in a chair IF they were lucky. Reminds me of people paying to get slashdot stories "EARLY" ...
Re:Jumped the Shark... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:07 · Score: 1, Funny

Otherwise you can be absolutely certain she would still milk it.
Humm.... "Milk it" ... OF COURSE!!! ... she should milk the cat in front of the webcam to become popular again!!
Re:Jumped the Shark... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:41 · Score: 0

It was free if you only cared about getting an image refresh every 15 minutes, which is what I did.
Re:Jumped the Shark... by markhb · 2003-12-05 01:54 · Score: 3, Informative

I'm not sure if she jumped it then, or earlier, when she incorporated and sent out C&D orders to everyone who had unauthorized archives of her cam shots... especially the early ones from her college days.

Does anyone else remember when she was "sponsored" by some nudism library, and they solicited for beer donations?

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Re:Jumped the Shark... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:03 · Score: 0

Of course there are those who thought she didn't have much choice but to turn it into a long term relationship after the way she and Dex handled the situation. They got huge backlash at the time as it was, it would have looked even worse to have done it and then dismissed it as a fling soon after. Someone who's making money off of people can't afford to do things to turn those people away.

And I wouldn't worry too much about the former friend, she's happy and doing quite well for herself these days. :)
Re:Jumped the Shark... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 05:08 · Score: 0

Right.

That Dex guy, he's the one that had depression problems and looks like the missing link? I stopped watching at that time too. Yeesh.
Re:Jumped the Shark... by sn0wcrash · 2003-12-05 05:10 · Score: 1

My memories are vague... but wasn't the deal you could get free members site access for sending them some german or somesuch beer? i was entertained for about a month before I realized nothign freaking ever happened. No more exciting than my life. That's just sad. heh
Re:Jumped the Shark... by hetairoi · 2003-12-05 05:45 · Score: 2, Funny

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.

I had read /. 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 /.

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?

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Re:Jumped the Shark... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:41 · Score: 1, Informative

"I'm sure the ONLY reason she's closing it is that she's no longer raking in the dough."

You are so right about that, also, Dex was reading the alt.fan.jennicam newsgroup and got all depressed when he read what everyone thinks of him.

I think she has also chosen to finally get out of the public eye because of the negative feedback about her hookup with Dex and how it went down. Basically she stole the fucking guy from her best friend at the time, which says an awful lot about Jenni.

She also needs to get out while she still has some looks left (not much), she did look pretty sweet at 18 but now at 26 she already looks well past her prime, always amazes me how many girls can look so cute at 18-24 and then next thing you know she looks like her mother!
Re:Jumped the Shark... by elemental23 · 2003-12-05 07:59 · Score: 1

Basically she stole the fucking guy from her best friend at the time, which says an awful lot about Jenni.

Doesn't that actually say a lot more about about him than it does her?

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Re:Jumped the Shark... by BoogieChile · 2003-12-06 02:55 · Score: 1

Actually, I'm reading down this thread, and I'm hearing "Like sands...Through the hourglass...These are the Days of Our Lives..."

Am I the only one ... by Unleashd · 2003-12-04 21:48 · Score: 5, Funny

that saw this article and started to hear Forest yell "Don't go Jennay"

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Re:Am I the only one ... by mattjb0010 · 2003-12-04 22:04 · Score: 1, Funny

The server is running pretty slowly at the moment. Perhaps it needs more power. Run Forrest, run!
Re:Am I the only one ... by happystink · 2003-12-05 06:24 · Score: 1

Yes. You were.

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more popular then linus by kerb · 2003-12-04 21:55 · Score: 0

linus of snoopy or linus of linux fame?
whoever she is.. shes not that popular for i doubt that most of the slashdot crowd had ever heard of her.

Re:more popular then linus by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:56 · Score: 0

I Have :P
Re:more popular then linus by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:04 · Score: 0

And we all know that slashdot is a representative of the internet society as a whole. Yeah, right.
Re:more popular then linus by wud · 2003-12-04 23:39 · Score: 0

i was checking out her cam back in 97, with my 14.4 modem.. it was the most amazing thing i had ever seen. i remember running a brute force cracker for like 3 weeks straight with no luck trying to get into the member site. i woulda just paid but i was 16 at the time.

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Cover Letter by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 21:56 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Dear Sir or Nigger:

Having found your company on the web and seen that you are hiring jackbooted thugs, I would like to apply for consideration. I have read a lot about your company in the news lately and I really like what I see. There should be more buisinesses which will tramp over anyone in their way without a second thought. That is why this position interests me so much.
I feel I meet all the required skills of making baseless legal threats, harrassing the little people, rackateering, theft, lying and making ludicrious statements. As I have been a neo nazi for many years, I should fit in well with the companies policies and direction.
I do have one request, that if I am hired, I do not want to have to work with niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. No real preference in which I don't want to work with because they are all equally worthless. Other than that, I really have no other special needs.
I look foward to hearing back from you and hope to obtain a rewarding career with SCO corporation.

Sincerely,
Dr. Samuel Conway

HEIL HITLER!

I submitted this... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:07 · Score: -1, Redundant

Several days ago.

Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:08 · Score: 5, Informative

While Jenni is mildly attractive, there are far more sexier and interesting camgirls out there. My favourite at the moment is Mercatur, a mid-twenties web designer.

Unlike Jenni, she is actually an interesting writer. She tackles wide-ranging and amusing subjects like why girls should only sleep with computer geeks (link) to advice on how to give good head to a guy (link).

She is also extremely cute. And single, I believe ;-)

Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:12 · Score: 0

Sweet... her sister ain't bad either.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Uhhh..Are you on drugs? That woman has a face like a Playstation controller.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:26 · Score: 5, Funny

A true geek, relating a girl's features to a computer component.
Although I did see a girl today whose chest was as flat as the underside of a motherboard.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:32 · Score: 0

Let me be the first to say "Id hit it"
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by DeltaSigma · 2003-12-04 23:09 · Score: 1

I was all excited when you said "cute" and "web designer" in the same description of a single female. Then I loaded her page... Cute she is, but web designer? I mean... she doesn't do that professionally does she?
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Stubtify · 2003-12-04 23:14 · Score: 1, Funny

C'mon give her some credit. She is a girl.
Reminds me of the old joke: Why couldn't Hellen Keller drive?
Because she was a woman.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Phoenixhunter · 2003-12-04 23:21 · Score: 3, Funny

You can still play with her CPU's though...hmmm SMP...
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by DeltaSigma · 2003-12-04 23:24 · Score: 5, Interesting

Anwering my own question: She is "...currently a circulation manager at a publishing house."
After seeing her "got root?" T-Shirt I just HAD to know what system she's running. According to her faq she uses "...Photoshop 5.5, ImageReady for compression, notepad for html..."
Photoshop and Imageready, fine, you need Windows for that. Fair enough. Most professional web designers I know are stuck with windows (though the clever ones use crossover office), whether they want to or not.
However, no self respecting linux geek would resist the chance to make it known to the public that they like either emacs or vim. I mean, notepad? Yeah, sure, I'm happy she can throw some markup together, nevermind the fact that she's not adhering to standards, it's still better than the stuff WYSIWYG editors spew out their little iso-8859-1 orifaces.
...and you know what, I wouldn't even be so upset about all this if it wasn't for your misrepresentation of her.
I mean, sure she has an appreciable interest in technology, built her desktops herself, does manage her own page, likes geeks. But fair warning to other web designers: if you want something pretty to look at whilst discussing the lack of standards in web content, or the lack of design within sites, I have the suspicion that you might be disappointed.
...though I'd very truly love to be proven wrong about her.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:24 · Score: -1

are you fucking kidding me? she looks like ozzy osbourne crossdressing.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:25 · Score: 0

Mercatur? it sounds like the name of a company that handles retirement funds
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:46 · Score: 0

situps, if anyone ever lacks the motivation
to do situps, you should start a webcam in
your bedroom.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by tomstdenis · 2003-12-04 23:50 · Score: 1

As the developer of several OSS projects I can safely say that perhaps us "young whippersnappers" don't use vim or emacs because they suck? I'd much rather use TextPad or say Kate for editing source code. It's a gui, has multiple file thingy, it's like good.

Tom

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by liquidsin · 2003-12-05 00:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

No self respecting web designer would have that stupid-ass mouse trailer on their own website.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:23 · Score: 0

It's a shame emacs and vim don't have multiple file thingies or graphical user interfaces.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by DeltaSigma · 2003-12-05 00:25 · Score: 1

I didn't mean to come off as so elitest. I've been very drunk in the last hours, please forgive me.

I respect a person's choice in editors, differen't people find productivity through different means.

But in all seriousness, and only because I think everyone would benefit from it, I'd really reccomend trying out vim for a week. It's hard to describe in relation to TextPad and Kate... In insert mode it works much like TextPad and Kate, but in Standard mode it's like you've tossed your text on an operating table and been handed a scalpel.

And if you did give vim a fair run, excuse me again for assuming otherwise.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:31 · Score: 0

And Emacs or Vim (invoke with gvim) doesn't have a GUI? Or "multiple file thingy"?

Whatever editor you use, is a matter of taste, but please don't spread lies... :)
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by tomstdenis · 2003-12-05 00:31 · Score: 1

I never said that emacs/vim are not powerful. I just said they suck. For me, I always have a shell open. If I need to quickly sed or grep something I use the command line. If I need to add/del/move/insert lines of text I use my mouse. It's just simpler.

In fact Kate has a built-in console so really you could do it all from that too...

My point was you don't need those tools to be productive so the "and she doesn't even use vim" comment is complete and utter bullshit.

Tom

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by tomstdenis · 2003-12-05 00:33 · Score: 1

I wasn't describing those. And I think I can safely say the GUI in textpad/kate is a helluvalot easier than vim or emacs.

Tom

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by tomstdenis · 2003-12-05 00:36 · Score: 0, Funny

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.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by ScottSpeaks! · 2003-12-05 00:39 · Score: 5, Informative

...advice on how to give good head to a guy...
"Don't vary your speed"?!? {shakes head sadly}
Going to another woman for advice on how to give good head is like the blind leading the blind. Ask a gay man for tips, ladies. We actually know of what we speak. :)
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by SgtChaireBourne · 2003-12-05 00:49 · Score: 1

Photoshop and Imageready...
That implies Macintosh. Tho' most web designers I know also run some flavor of Linux. Now ex-web designers are another matter...

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:58 · Score: 0

No forgiveness for you!
Bitch.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:01 · Score: 0

Well if'n that ain't a big 'ol euphamism for CANNING THE MANHAM...
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by tomstdenis · 2003-12-05 01:03 · Score: -1, Flamebait

You're just jealous because last night was my turn to be inside you.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:09 · Score: 0

Actually, that's mercator bank & verzekeringen, or for those who don't speak dutch "mercator banking & insurance"
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by bwy · 2003-12-05 01:23 · Score: 1

Jenni used to be more attractive, 7 years ago. Unfortunately, she's one of those girls who couldn't hold on to that youthful attractiveness. Things went downhill. Maybe that is why she's closing up shop?
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by AkaXakA · 2003-12-05 01:40 · Score: 0

Lol... What's your advice on men shaving their sack?
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:43 · Score: -1

Admit it, you're just a faggot. We're not going to succeed at convincing you to use vi anymore than we'd get you to switch sucking dick for eating pussy.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:44 · Score: -1

I was thinking the exact same thing.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by tomstdenis · 2003-12-05 01:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

what no canham in your post? Jeez you gave up quicker than I did. Loser. Big L. That's what they will call you from now on. They'll be like "Hey loser, go get me coffee" and "hey loser, go trim my hedges"...

I pity thee.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:11 · Score: -1

why does her mole migrate from her right side to her left side from her schoolpics to her new pics?
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by sharkey · 2003-12-05 02:33 · Score: 1

That woman has a face like a Playstation controller.
And an ass like an XBox controller.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by JCholewa · 2003-12-05 02:41 · Score: 1

> Although I did see a girl today whose chest was
> as flat as the underside of a motherboard.

Ow. The underside of motherboards are filled with numerous tiny metal spikes.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:58 · Score: 0

Wait until she meets me, I've got a penis like a force-feedback joystick.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:06 · Score: 0

lets hope your operating system has got fine-grain multithreaded multitasking for that heavy load!
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Johnny+Mnemonic · 2003-12-05 03:36 · Score: 1

She could of, course, be using PhotoShop, ImageReady, and still "get root." I hate to be obvious, but I think you overlooked it.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by nick_davison · 2003-12-05 04:03 · Score: 1

No self respecting web designer would have that stupid-ass mouse trailer on their own website.
...Which explains the need for a webcam in place of actual webdev chops. Still, you can fool some of the people all of the time. "Oooh, look. A chick with a webcam! And she says she's a web developer. If only she claimed she used Linux as well. She could be my goddess!"

Even worse, under the shameless link, she has a paypal begging jar. *shudder*
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by IthnkImParanoid · 2003-12-05 04:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Be careful?

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:36 · Score: 0

I concur. You want cute, try: izzicam.com
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:39 · Score: 0

She is also extremely cute. And single, I believe

Meh. She's cute, but I like bi chicks and non-smokers. She is neither.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:43 · Score: 0

Why would Photoshop and Imageready imply Mac? They are both available for PC also and he lists notepad which isn't on the Mac. If he had said SimpleText then yes it would imply a Mac. And are you implying that web designers who use Windows are now "ex-web designers"? That makes even less sense.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:48 · Score: 0

I think she doesn't give good head.

...though I'd very truly love to be proven wrong about her.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Laetor · 2003-12-05 05:51 · Score: 1

What the hell are you smoking? That girl's hot! I'd buy her dinner any day, no matter what she was wearing. Reminds me of Tank Girl with all the middle-finger pointing. Not that that gets me hot. Being flipped off, I mean. Tank Girl gets me hot. Oh yeah, baby. OK, that's enough, I think.
Mercatur, you're smokin'! Don't listen to these idiots.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by happystink · 2003-12-05 06:16 · Score: 1

Going to another woman who is into sleeping with computer geeks is like the blind and catatonic leading the blind. Take advice at least from someone who has given head to someone who has RECEIVED it more than once.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:34 · Score: 0

So gay.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by elemental23 · 2003-12-05 07:53 · Score: 1

That doesn't imply anything, since both those programs have been available for Windows for as long as I can remember.

notepad for html

And that implies Windows.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by IdahoEv · 2003-12-05 07:58 · Score: 1

Photoshop and Imageready, fine, you need Windows for that.

You do? Crap, that means I need to take a look under the hood of this predatory feline I've been driving and exorcise the win.dll that must be at its core. And here I thought this thing was keeping me safe from evil.

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Nimey · 2003-12-05 08:26 · Score: 1

Well? Don't leave us in suspense. :-)

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Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 09:22 · Score: 0

I admit I haven't used Lunix in a while but now that it has a REAL editor for once I'll think about switching. Thanks.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by DeltaSigma · 2003-12-05 09:30 · Score: 1

Okay, you're not getting it, man. The point wasn't that she should be using vim or emacs. The point was that while writing mark-up yourself is a good thing, if she's limited herself to notepad, you know MICROSOFT notepad, then what's her deal with the got root shirt?

Her appearance in a couple pics seemed to imply that she was a Linux fan. I'm asserting that she wouldn't prefer notepad over a few dozen text editors I've seen (including Kate for christ's sake) if she had some real Linux experience.

And look, we're both already guilty of doing exactly what she didn't do. We've both gone off on some advantages of our respective text editors. You see what I mean?

I'm sorry if you think it was vim praise, I didn't mean it to be. It's just THE editor I think of as an alternative to windows notepad. I'm sure you think differently, and I'm NOT trying to say that you're not an OSS-Developer/Fan-of-Linux/Whatever because of it.

It just strikes me as odd that someone would wear a "got root?" T-Shirt and not use an open-source alternative to notepad.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:08 · Score: 0

wtf?
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:51 · Score: 0

If that's what your playstation controller looks like I would buy a new one ! Unless you meant to say Joystick not controller .... !!
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 14:02 · Score: 0

Oh God get a life. Yeah, we're all geeks here but it doesn't mean everyone else in the world has to be. So the girl uses Notepad? I note on her site now she's posted a note saying /.'ers are emailing her saying she's ugly & lacking talent. Makes me proud to read /. I must say. Jesus, come on guys.. This could be your sister or girlfriend.. Do we really need abuse or make digs at someone because they haven't mastered vi?
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by DeltaSigma · 2003-12-05 15:28 · Score: 1

Holy crap you're right! I didn't even think about that...

Hmm... maybe she has an extended FAQ where someone asks what architecture she runs... Or even, what OS.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by DeltaSigma · 2003-12-05 15:31 · Score: 1

If I was the cause of slashdotters e-mailing her with that bullshit, I sincerely apologize. This was not my intent.
Re:Much more interesting camgirl by ScottSpeaks! · 2003-12-05 16:28 · Score: 1

Surprise him.
With a good webcam, the thrill comes from not knowing what's about to happen until it does. You have to be careful about what your "audience" is ready for, but sticking to a predictable pattern gets mechanical pretty quick. Mix it up.
Blow jobs are the same.

As one door closes, another opens. by Channard · 2003-12-04 22:09 · Score: 3, Funny

Don't worry - those having withdrawal symptoms will be able to comfort themselves with the launch of the new Goatse cam. Opening (literally) soon.

Oh, no, wait, that's a nightmare I had. Same night I had the 24 hour Tubgirl channel dream, now I think about it.

Re:As one door closes, another opens. by halo8 · 2003-12-05 02:12 · Score: 1

wow dude

i highly suggest your start checking the expirey dates on thoes dairy and fish products.

or

whatever it is your smoking fuck buddy.. dont pass that blunt around no more

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Re:As one door closes, another opens. by Fjord · 2003-12-05 02:46 · Score: -1, Troll

"24 hour Tubgirl channel dream"

With the Matrix-style flyaround? Yeah, I've had that one too.

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Re:As one door closes, another opens. by RadioTV · 2003-12-05 04:56 · Score: 1

Way to go - now I have a totally disgusting picture in my head.

You suck....;-)

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Thanks for your application by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Could you please supply some references.

Jennicam dead at 7 by Bombcar · 2003-12-04 22:13 · Score: -1, Troll

I heard some sad news on PBS this morning. Jennicam was found dead at her website today. There were no more details at this time. Wether or not you visited the site, you have to admit she was influencal. Truly an American icon.

-The Tr0lls

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In other news... by Zog+The+Undeniable · 2003-12-04 22:14 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 05:59 · Score: 0

The goatse "man" is a hermaphrodite. You're looking at a vagina in that picture, not an ass.

Thank you Jenni by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:15 · Score: 0

If for nothing else, without you there would never have been Camwhores!

'The end of an era'? Come on.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:17 · Score: 0, Funny

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..

The original coffee-cam was at Cambridge, England by hughk · 2003-12-04 22:19 · Score: 2, Informative

at their computer lab not MIT. It was known just as the Internet Coffeee Pot, a webcam on a filter coffee machine. I believe a German publishing house bought the original pot.

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bout time by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:24 · Score: 0

It's about time that "No Fat Camgirls" amendment went into effect...

Maybe not to you... by Channard · 2003-12-04 22:26 · Score: 4, Insightful

Watching someone else's life just doesn't appeal to me I guess...

Maybe not to you, but to Joe Public it does. In fact, the preponderance of webcams may have had something to do with the rise in popularity of reality TV. Here in the UK, we get Fame Academy, Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, and a slew of tedious TV shows that someone must be watching for them to stay on air. Maybe the majority of Slashdotters are just too cynical to be swayed by that sort of thing, but there are plenty of people who are convinced other peoples lives are somehow better than their own, and therefore worthy of viewing.

Re:Maybe not to you... by Zocalo · 2003-12-04 23:35 · Score: 1

And there's the thing for me. Between the soaps and quiz shows and now reality shows and Trek going down the pan, I've completely stopped watching TV apart from the odd foray onto one of the 24 hour news channels. I hardly even look at the TV pages anymore; so in effect they've lost me as a viewer for the forseable future. Many other geeks I know are at varying stages of the same change; favorite shows off-air, nothing decent to replace them. Many of them are finding interesting *outdoor* hobbies to replace them, often with a technical slant.
Keep it up Fox! At this rate it's going to be the geeks that are the buff and tanned ones with a life, while everyone else sits at home drooling into their six packs.

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Re:Maybe not to you... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:18 · Score: 0

Hey, you still have a TV, you wuss. I threw out my TV a year ago, and I've never had so much free time.

You don't realise how much of a time drain tv is until you stop watching it.
Re:Maybe not to you... by dustmote · 2003-12-05 02:14 · Score: 1

Preach it brother! I stopped watching TV when I moved out of my parents' house about four years ago, and until my new roommates got cable, the only time I ever watched television was the occasional movie every couple of months or so. My quality of life improved so much - I've learned to play guitar, taken up homebrewing (mmm, mead!), finished massage school and various carpal tunnel additonal courses, learned to cook gourmet dishes and historical cuisine, and had the time of my life. The TV is only useful for pornography and cartoons, in my opinion.

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Re:Maybe not to you... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:08 · Score: 0

I save even more time by watching Hentai, porno AND cartoons all in one!
Re:Maybe not to you... by the_mad_poster · 2003-12-05 03:23 · Score: 1

All you did was throw it out? YOU'RE the wuss. I KICKED the TV right out of it's crappy plastic case.

I also hurt my tender little toes. That freakin' glass is HARD. Served it's purpose though - my TV is quite dead. :-)

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An ode to Jenni by Compact+Dick · 2003-12-04 22:28 · Score: 1

So long, and thanks for all the fish :-P

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bound to happen by CAIMLAS · 2003-12-04 22:30 · Score: 1, Interesting

I suspect it has something to do with the fact that it's been, well, 7 years. She undoubtedly started past the age of 18, so at the very least, she's 25. More likely, she's closer to 30. What'd you expect, an aging woman to display her body indefinately? I think not.

When was the last time you heard of a 30-year-old porn star? That's functionally what she is, though she doesn't make a habit of actively showing her body, and is more actively showing her mind - pr0n for geeks, I guess. She actively pimps the image of her body and life.

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Re:bound to happen by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:06 · Score: -1

You are quite deluded if you think that being over 30 has any significant effect on any reasonably attractive woman. (So in a way you're in for a nice surprise in a few years.) Maybe at like 45, but by that point either you love her for her mind or you don't have any other options.
Re:bound to happen by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:39 · Score: 0

When was the last time you heard of a 30-year-old porn star?

Nina Hartley, who started in the business in 1984 at about age 25 and is still doing movies, is the extreme example, but there are plenty of porn stars who were still making movies when they were 30. Janine and Julia Ann are two more. Just about any of them that got started in the early 90's and were popular enough to still be working now are 30. Asia Carrera is 29 and shows no sign of retiring from hardcore.

Shall I go on, or have you grown tired of eating crow?
Re:bound to happen by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:19 · Score: 1, Insightful

I think there are many porn stars over 30. Asia Carrera and Taylor Hayes come to mind, but I'm sure there are many more. Any woman who is hot at 25 should be hot at 30, and much later than that. All she needs to do is take care of herself.
Re:bound to happen by brotherscrim · 2003-12-05 04:31 · Score: 1

Actually, with each passing year Asia Carrera is doing fewer and fewer movies and has been moving to writing scripts. She's also a bit of a computer geek and has her own site that if I'm not mistaken she maintanes.
Re:bound to happen by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 05:42 · Score: 0

You make it sound like showing off her body is a "bad" thing, as in, immoral or unethical.

Are most of us hypocrites? When I look at pr0n, or the ever hopefull expectation of pr0n, like jeni, i do so realizing that I'm not being ethical while I'm having fun...
Re:bound to happen by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 08:40 · Score: 0

Way to go, chief, your superior porn knowledge has rightfully silenced him.

The creepiest thing ever... by Channard · 2003-12-04 22:31 · Score: 3, Insightful

I heard some sad news on PBS this morning. Jennicam was found dead at her website today.

Jennicam the concept, maybe, not the person. Though there's got to be the plot for a horror story in there - someone decides to stop their popular webcam, only to find that the webcam keeps transmitting, showing someone her walking around her flat doing her usual things. Except that said person is there when Jenni herself isn't..

Re:The creepiest thing ever... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:09 · Score: 0

Hang around long enough and no doubt Stephen "dead in his Maine home" King will spew that one out of his soft underbelly.
Re:The creepiest thing ever... by LittleGuy · 2003-12-05 01:33 · Score: 1

Jennicam the concept, maybe, not the person. Though there's got to be the plot for a horror story in there - someone decides to stop their popular webcam, only to find that the webcam keeps transmitting, showing someone her walking around her flat doing her usual things. Except that said person is there when Jenni herself isn't.

* sharpens pencil, starts writing*

She's.... she's a ghost!

Or a Rogue Program in the Matrix.

Or.... a window to an alternate reality.

Or, it now points to ZuniFetishDollCam.Org

Maybe, the JenniCam was found wearing an orange parka and....

* breaks pencil, gets more coffee *

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Re:The creepiest thing ever... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-10 05:27 · Score: 0

I don't know if Stephen King has the imagination to think of something as horrible as Jenni naked.

And she swallows!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 22:43 · Score: -1

*faints*

Jenni? by tomstdenis · 2003-12-04 22:49 · Score: 1, Funny

[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.

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Re:Jenni? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:43 · Score: 0

Of course you wouldn't know about it. You've been too busy CANNING THE MANHAM.
Re:Jenni? by tomstdenis · 2003-12-05 00:39 · Score: -1, Troll

You make that sound so negative. Last night when I was in you you didn't seem to be having such a hard time with it.

Tom

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Re:Jenni? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:03 · Score: -1

Get a room, you two. We don't need to see that.
Re:Jenni? by Jennifer+E.+Elaan · 2003-12-05 02:17 · Score: 1

I heard about her almost from the start (by doing an Altavista search for 'Jenni', which is a rare enough abbreviation of my name that I wondered who else used it). Within a year or two, most of the people I talked to knew about her, but then her popularity started waning.
It's quite possible that you were simply too young to know about her (as you already established in another thread that you are likely a couple years younger than me).
Watching how quickly and visibly she aged is scary though.. I'm only a little younger than her (although so far, I'm aging much more gracefully *crosses fingers*).

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Re:Jenni? by TheSync · 2003-12-05 02:27 · Score: 1

Her server was running a non-Microsoft OS, and she uses a Mac?

WTF.. by hswerdfe · 2003-12-04 22:55 · Score: -1, Redundant

am I the only one on the Internet who has never heard of this woman?

sigh... I hate it when people on /. post complaining about the uslessness of the news. why don't these people just ignore the story and move on with there lives....oh look sega is going crazy...hmmm...anyway...

what the f*ck, who cares, some girl hass a web cam, some girl is turning off her web cam, it is so creepy that so many people on /. actually care... this is in my opinion a new all time low for /. ....

sigh.....

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Re:WTF.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:14 · Score: 0

am I the only one on the Internet who has never heard of this woman?

You've never gone to your preference page to configure the slashboxes?

Suggest you try it - there's some interesting stuff in there! Not just her.

Well, thanks to /. the closure has already started by Otis_INF · 2003-12-04 23:06 · Score: 1

... at least the site is slashdotted :)

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the reason this is special by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:15 · Score: 1, Informative

is because she is the original cam girl. well probably not the first, but the first known to setup a cam, and let it run 24/7 showing everything she did. you could say she started a trend. i never thought she was good looking, but you got to give her credit. she gets an idea for a project, goes through with it, and keeps it going for 7 and a half years.

most of us dont mind being seen on cam, or on the web, but just imagine a cam on you 24/7 for 7 and a half years, in the bathroom/kitchen/bedroom/living room, all over the place. plus she probably made descent money doing it, not counting all the equipment people donated, and what not over the years. give the girl some credit.

ya ya ya !!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:18 · Score: -1

Fucking awesome post. You hit the nail on the head. We are all sobbing for Jenny.

Re:The coffeecam relocated by physos · 2003-12-04 23:19 · Score: 2, Informative

It is here now:

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518 ,1 82486,00.html

s/wark/walk/ by AllUsernamesAreGone · 2003-12-04 23:24 · Score: 1

Damn dyslexic fingers....

Who went to a Jennicon? by Saint+Stephen · 2003-12-04 23:25 · Score: 4, Interesting

In (1999) I think, I went to a JenniCon. It was fun. She had a timeshare place in Virginia. There were about 14 people there. All the other guys were crashing on the floor of her timeshare -- I rented a place on the other side of the complex.

She's just a gen-Y pothead. (She and her then boyfriend smoked Pot the whole time, and didn't offer us any. I finally got her to pass me the bong and TreeH got nervous in case they saw me doing it on the cam).

I think she was part of some national psychological program to profile us Internet Whackos. Whatever. I was there.

Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:25 · Score: 0

You actually went to a JenniCam convention (of sorts)? You truly have wasted your life.
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by JavaLord · 2003-12-05 02:31 · Score: 1

In (1999) I think, I went to a JenniCon. It was fun.

I don't want to come off as judgemental here, but that is they gayest thing I ever heard of. JenniCon? I can't believe people would even bother to watch a chick on a grainy webcam when there is so much quality porn on the newsgroups.

But hey, whatever floats your boat
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Saint+Stephen · 2003-12-05 02:44 · Score: 0

It was kinda gay, which is why I made a big point about saying I got my own $300/night timeshare on the other side of the timeshare.

What are you, afraid of yourself or something?
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:51 · Score: 0

t was kinda gay, which is why I made a big point about saying I got my own $300/night timeshare on the other side of the timeshare.

Yes, but the point is you still WENT.

Your above defense is like, "Yes, I went to the homosexual orgy, but I didn't join in-- I just watched and jerked off!"
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:52 · Score: -1

Oops -- I read that as vagina at first.
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Saint+Stephen · 2003-12-05 03:02 · Score: 1

Nah, there was nothing really sexual about it.

Have you ever been to a grateful dead show? All hippie/bohemian activities are kind of "wierd".

I like Carla. There was another kind of strange girl with a boob job that showed up "Anna" I think. She was a flake (kind of stupid). The rest of us were just intellectuals.

Hey, it was big enough to make a headline on Slashdot. Basically anything that absorbs the nation's attention is worth paying attention to, just to see what the fuss is about.

It's gay if you go back.
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:35 · Score: 0

The rest of us were just intellectuals.

bwhaha, oh I'm sure it was a mensa meeting in disguise. Hey, it was big enough to make a headline on Slashdot. Basically anything that absorbs the nation's attention

Now Slashdot == the Nation? Oh boy. I'm willing to bet that 90 percent of the population doesn't know what the hell Jennicam is.

(it's) worth paying attention to, just to see what the fuss is about.

There is a lot of stuff their is fuss over. There is a lot of fuss over isreal right now, go check it out!
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:40 · Score: 0

I'm willing to bet that 90 percent of the population doesn't know what the hell Jennicam is.

Wow, so I guess that leaves only 28 million who do
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:13 · Score: 0

You're probably thinking of Ana Voog from anacam. She's got a nice arse, FWIW.
Re:Who went to a Jennicon? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 15:30 · Score: 0

...do you think anybody would ADMIT to doing something so inane?

Zombie site by marmoset · 2003-12-04 23:26 · Score: 3, Insightful

The site's been undead for years, stumbling around muttering "brains, brains" and bumping into shit. 99% of the time the camera's focused on an empty blue chair. It all went downhill when she stole her "friend's" fiancee and boinked him on camera.

Jennicam Pr0n on letterman / PBS by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Back in the day, I whored many a domain name.
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 .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.

Aaah jennicam. That stupid whore. NPR and jennicam .COM names now point at the expected places. :)

Re:Jennicam Pr0n on letterman / PBS by jfengel · 2003-12-05 09:52 · Score: 1

I was asked to meta-moderate a moderation as "troll", and I've been trying to decide. I guess I have to moderate it "fair", given that by the time jennicam was established, I would have imagined that all three-letter dot-com domain names were long since taken.

Then again, I knew a complete fool who had a 3 letter domain name. And you don't say that you got them at the same time. You could well be the guy who squatted npr.com.

The rest of the story rings true, but I'm going to call shennanigans anyway. I'll probably never know if I'm right or not.
Re:Jennicam Pr0n on letterman / PBS by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 10:17 · Score: 0

No shennanigans. It's a true story. I picked up a lot of three letter domains in early 1998. Jennicam was registered by someone I knew and I picked it up when he let it lapse. Jennicam.com *still* lists 'Datalens' as the owner. NPR of course, was intelligent enough to update the company name.

I'm not sure why you think this would be a troll. Were you somehow effected by this? That would make me laugh even more. :)
Re:Jennicam Pr0n on letterman / PBS by Lord_Dweomer · 2003-12-05 12:39 · Score: 1

"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."
And this is the exact reason why there is no credibility behind internet advertising. I'd lecture you about advertising ethics, but seeing as how you would do something like this, I doubt you'd care.

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Re:Jennicam Pr0n on letterman / PBS by jfengel · 2003-12-05 13:24 · Score: 1

Nah, I don't think it's really a troll. (One of the hazards of meta-moderating is that you get to see the real trolls.)

I'm just surprised to hear that there were 3-letter domains available at all in 1998. (I've sometimes wondered if there are any available post the dotcom crash.)

Glad to hear the story is true. It's funny.
Re:Jennicam Pr0n on letterman / PBS by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 15:34 · Score: 0

You are just pissy cause you didn't profit from it. Whiner.

naked pics? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:40 · Score: -1

so does anyone have any pics of her naked or having sex? please post them.

Rubbish by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:48 · Score: -1

I'm trolling here for several year and I can still moderate with my troll account.

Mmmmm...Cake..... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Was it a chocolate cake? That is my favorite.

Re:Mmmmm...Cake..... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:45 · Score: 0

Of course it was chocolate cake goddammit!!!
Unless he had just been to Starbucks in which case it would be coffee cake.

I just checked the Jennicam slashbox a week ago... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:56 · Score: 0

...and now she's closing down the website. :(

Maybe it's just me. Slashdot ought to have an SCO Slashbox.

Jenni == Fat Slut by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-04 23:57 · Score: -1

Only a 27 y.o. slashbot would want to see her nasty FUPA.

That's another piece of internet culture gone... by zoeblade · 2003-12-05 00:01 · Score: 1, Funny

...I guess Cats will give back all our base next.

Internet World '99 by tomfuck · 2003-12-05 00:08 · Score: 1

At the New York Internet World in Fall of '99, Handspring officially announced their first product - the Visor handheld. On the other side of the exhibition hall, some dot com had Jenni there signing autographs. Judging by the line she had, you'd think that she had usurped all of the attention from Handspring. Everyone wanted to meet her. Of course I wanted on line and got her autograph, too! I couldn't resist.

Oh, crap! by Helmut+Kool · 2003-12-05 00:08 · Score: 1, Funny

There goes my social life!

Is it my imagination.. by Channard · 2003-12-05 00:09 · Score: -1, Funny

OK
webcrawler starts to suck
altavista goes static

Is it my imagination, or did that start off as a haiku?

"Slashbox"? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:19 · Score: -1

*snicker*

Re:"Slashbox"? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-09 17:36 · Score: 0

I thought the slashbox was Malda's wife.

Moved on to better things by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:21 · Score: 0

I guess JenniCam had its time and place. Now we can occupy ourselves with Paris Hiltonand Pamela Anderson leaked footage.

Re:Moved on to better things by srmalloy · 2003-12-05 01:16 · Score: 1

I guess JenniCam had its time and place. Now we can occupy ourselves with Paris Hiltonand Pamela Anderson leaked footage.
And Jenni can find out whether, as Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."

An slashdot advert... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:23 · Score: 0

Are we disguising adverts as articles now even for Camwhores who will go offline in a few days?

This is a new low in slashdot advertising.

Have no fear by EvilNutSack · 2003-12-05 00:28 · Score: 1

Pantscam is still here!

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Excellent Idea ... by AftanGustur · 2003-12-05 00:31 · Score: 1

I'll be glad to give it a moment of silence when shows like Big Brother and Survivor are finally gone.

Now, wouldn't that be an excellent /. function ... When a "sad" story is posted, noone can post a comment for the first 2 minutes ..

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Re:Excellent Idea ... by Fjornir · 2003-12-05 04:16 · Score: 1

First off, it is already implemented in the Slashcode. And second, using that functionality for that purpose is the Wrong Way. If somebody controversial snuffs it, I should be able to shout "Hurray!" from the rooftops even if you feel like staring at a blank computer screen for a couple of minutes. As such, if a moment of silence if justified it should fall to the mods to mod everyone down who posts before a suitably reverent pause -- OR YOU COULD JUST NOT CLICK THE LINK FOR A MINUTE OR TWO, AND YOU'D NEVER NOTICE ANY DIFFERENCE. :P

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Re:Excellent Idea ... by AftanGustur · 2003-12-05 05:05 · Score: 1

I should be able to shout "Hurray!" from the rooftops even if you feel like staring at a blank computer screen for a couple of minutes.
Of course you should,,, but /. is not required to provide you with the rooftop..

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Re:Excellent Idea ... by shockwav1 · 2003-12-05 08:05 · Score: 1

Ahhh... I can see it now... GNAA and all the other idiots adding "sleep 120" into their scripts...
Re:Excellent Idea ... by Fjornir · 2003-12-05 08:58 · Score: 1

Of course you should,,, but /. is not required to provide you with the rooftop..
Uhm. Duh. But remember, your moment of silence is as much an act of speech as my shouting, and /. need not provide you with that either.
This is silly. Last post, so feel free to mock me however you wish. :)

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age comments ... hee, hee by cascadingstylesheet · 2003-12-05 00:31 · Score: 4, Insightful

Hee, hee ... I just love the wtf, she must be , like, 27 or even 30 now! Of course she has to quit! posts ...

Yes, egads, how could a 27-30 year old woman possibly be attractive? :o

Hmm, maybe I should just be glad that there is a whole segment of the population too stupid to give me any competition ;)

Re:age comments ... hee, hee by Cnik70 · 2003-12-05 03:15 · Score: 1

I think she hit the wall at 21, the last few years have just been a death march.

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Re:age comments ... hee, hee by hsoom · 2003-12-05 03:41 · Score: 1

Here here!

The older the berry, the sweeter the juice. It's the truth.
Re:age comments ... hee, hee by matt-fu · 2003-12-05 07:30 · Score: 1

It's not that 27-30 year olds are unattractive.
It's that Jenni is unattractive.

Nope by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:34 · Score: -1

She was kinda cute. Now, she is a fat camwhore. Don't give me any BBW shit; being a fat slob isn't beautiful, chubby chaser.

Continental Drift by Pete · 2003-12-05 00:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Thank god we've still got the thrill-a-minute continental drift cam.

Much more intelligent. And more exciting.

:-)

Pete.

Re:Continental Drift by tedDancin · 2003-12-05 02:17 · Score: 2, Interesting

Thank god we've still got the thrill-a-minute continental drift cam.

Oh man, you gotta check out the Slow Motion Mode... WTF??

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still waiting to read about anything that matters by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:49 · Score: -1, Troll

even another phonIE corepirate nazi puppet shill storIE would be better than pretending that nothing matters?

morons' same old letter to corepirate nazi felons (Score:mynuts won, do not disturb the 'flow' of the stock markup fraud execrable)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 05, @06:09AM (#7637472)
lookout bullow.

seems as though without all this last gasper ?pr? ?firm? scriptdead stock markup fraud payper liesense softwar gangster execrable fear-biting, few would have even yet heard of the good gnus?

the daze of the whoreabull phonIE hostage scams of the naykid furors of the fraudulent kingdumb of payper liesense softwar gangsters, are WANing into coolapps/the abyss, at the speed of right.

consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... get ready..... see you there?

don't look for a stuff that matters storIE about it anytime soon.

From the CNN link by kworthington · 2003-12-05 00:53 · Score: 3, Interesting

In the CNN link posted above (which was written when the site was online for three years), there's an interesting quote in lieu of the site about to go offline:

Ringley says she will keep the site going indefinitely -- "I can't imagine any situation which would cause me to want to" take it down.

Ironic huh?

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Re:From the CNN link by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:08 · Score: -1

whats ironic about her having no imagination?
Re:From the CNN link by Pedro+Picasso · 2003-12-05 07:47 · Score: 1

Not ironic, just an unforseen occurance. It would only be ironic if it were a complete reverse of the expected order. For instance, if by saying she would never take it down she in fact caused its demise, that would be an ironic situation.

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Nostalgia by Toontje · 2003-12-05 00:55 · Score: 1

Boy this gives me the shivers. Jennicam, who doen't now this? I got in internet dialup account about 8 1/2 years ago. My life changed at the moment that I clicked the dial button. Information explotion overload, internet rocks. I tried to look at everything that catched my attention. The only sad thing is. Many things came quickly but also went away quickly. A lot of nice sites have died or floating around like they are lost in space. Does anybody remember some good old 'classic' bookmarks Internet became and is my life.

Re:Nostalgia by Zog+The+Undeniable · 2003-12-05 02:17 · Score: 1

Well, the Infamous Exploding Whale is still there, although last time I looked their hate mail was 5 years old.

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Re:Nostalgia by Fred+IV · 2003-12-05 02:48 · Score: 1

Don't know if it's there or not anymore, but internet nostalgia makes me think of telneting to marvel.loc.gov from my university VMS/VAX account.

Catching up on beauty sleep? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 00:57 · Score: 0

7:52am? Still sounds asleep? Must be nice :P

Interview by lxs · 2003-12-05 00:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

Any chance of a slashdot interview by way of a farewell?

Re:Interview by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:58 · Score: 0

No.

Love,
Jenni

Getting on a bit? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:01 · Score: 0

7 years online huh? Is the shutdown perhaps due to Jenni getting on a bit and starting to sag here and there?

A sad day.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:07 · Score: 1, Funny

To think, JenniCam was probably the first site I surfed left-handed...

Maybe I'm not in the know... by Atrophis · 2003-12-05 01:19 · Score: 1

but I always thought this camwhore crap to be nothing but poop. When I first herd of jennycam was right after it opened up. I took one look and realized how interested lonely people and perverts were going to be. Fact being, I never really found her attractive nor interesting.

Now we have all this other voyeur crap like Big Brother and other such reality BS I could choke. Anyhow... birth of a new fad? And hopefully the death of one too.

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Well, I've been around the net for quite a while, by kahei · 2003-12-05 01:22 · Score: 1

...from before HTTP, for instance, and I've never heard of JenniCam. I think you should consider the possibility that there's a large population of people out there who have better stuff to do.

I mean, I know that sounds mean, but it's kind of an 'interesting to some, though not all, bored American kids' thing rather than an 'interesting in general' thing, isn't it?

I guess there was a generation that only discovered the internet about the time webcams came along, and to that generation maybe webcams are the stuff of sentimentality.

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Nope... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:25 · Score: 0

I would have to say that I could not give a rat's ass about the JenniCam. Sorry, but who cares about looking into someone's life...that is, unless you don't have one of your own.

I remember hearing about JenniCam on the commercial of one of those talk shows...I can't remember which RickiLakeOperaTrailerTrash show it was. Ahh..like it was yesterday...still...who gives a F#%*

Jenni...here is to 7.5 years of wasted bandwidth!

Interneting since 1996 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:29 · Score: -1

and never hear of this one.

I've Got It! I've Got It! by tds67 · 2003-12-05 01:30 · Score: 5, Funny

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!

Blogs Today = Webcams Yesterday? by rhkaloge · 2003-12-05 01:32 · Score: 1

I keep seeing how people expound on the blog "movement" and how it's an important vehicle of social change and commentary, and while I know that's probably all hooey, I couldn't think of an equivelent phenomonononon until now - webcams. As someone said, everyone and their sister had a webcam, you could watch webcams of people's pets, but eventually they died out or became porn sites.

So how long until the entire internet is one big porn site?

Skippy

What are you, blind AND stupid? by NDPTAL85 · 2003-12-05 01:33 · Score: 1

There are TONS of sights out there, amatuer and professional with women well over 30, 40 and 50. Have you completely missed the MILF phenomenon? Mothers I'd Like to Fuck? What about the amaturer wife websites? The Mature websites for older ladies? Wetlands.com is full of them. Jesus.

What are you stuck in some immature mind loop that cannot see any woman over 30 as attractive? Are you going to be hunting for 25yr and younger girls for the rest of your life? How sad if so.

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Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by jonnyfivealive · 2003-12-05 03:01 · Score: 1

theres somehting sad about all this, but i think its you. good lord, that is some nasty crap. you must be old. when you were young, i bet you didnt like the idea of seeing 60yr old women naked. only way ill enjoy it is when its my wife 45 years from now

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Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by NDPTAL85 · 2003-12-05 03:51 · Score: 1

I'm actually 23 and I have enjoyed women 20 to 30 years older than me since I was 15.

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Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by benzapp · 2003-12-05 06:46 · Score: 1

Have you completely missed the MILF phenomenon? Mothers I'd Like to Fuck?

Yes. That is just gross.

Are you going to be hunting for 25yr and younger girls for the rest of your life? How sad if so.

Thats like saying wanting to have a nice rare steak at Peter Luger's is sad, rather than wanting to eat a Sizzler.

Besides, who needs to deal with older chicks when you can go to Montreal, and get a beautiful french prostitute for $125US an hour? It would be nice if prostitution was legal in the US, outside of $2000 escorts and the occasional crackwhore... But the women in Montreal are far more attractive anyway.

We are talking about human nature here. It is perfectly normal for men to find younger women attractive. And besides, all women become angry bitches as they get older because they are jealous of younger girls. It doesn't matter if you have convinced yourself that aspect of humanity can be changed. Every time she sees a hot 22 year old, she will will be consumed with vice.

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Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:02 · Score: 0

That sounds like statutory rape. No wonder you're so perverted.
Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:15 · Score: 0

Your wife is 15? Weird.
Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by CAIMLAS · 2003-12-05 07:17 · Score: 1

You obviously missed the obviousness of the fact that I do not view porn with such vapid consumption as you appear to.

The reality is that very few women over 30 are attractive, particularly if they've had a kid or two (generally). Most women don't take care of themselves. It's a rare woman over 30 that would fall into those categories, let alone some webcam girl that wasn't terribly attractive in the first place.

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Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by elemental23 · 2003-12-05 08:08 · Score: 1

you must be old. when you were young, i bet you didnt like the idea of seeing 60yr old women naked. only way ill enjoy it is when its my wife 45 years from now

Your wife is 15?

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Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by jonnyfivealive · 2003-12-05 08:28 · Score: 1

well, i stand very corrected. keep doing your thing, i suppose. to each his own

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Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by NDPTAL85 · 2003-12-05 11:52 · Score: 1

I don't have to or want to pay for sex. Nuff said on that.

I'm not disputing that men find women VISUALLY attractive. But some older women can be visually attractive as well, while lacking the annoying immature personalities that plague younger women. And not every older woman is jealous of younger women. Not the secure ones who are sure of their own beauty. Stereotypes and assumptions are bad.

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Re:What are you, blind AND stupid? by benzapp · 2003-12-05 18:45 · Score: 1

I don't have to or want to pay for sex. Nuff said on that.

Yeah sure, you can walk into any damn bar you want, pick the most beautiful woman there, take her home, fuck her, and tell her to get out. Sure thing.

Anyone can get laid, but the question is at what cost and with how much effort, and with what result?

Good lucking getting that beautiful 19 year old french girl when you are like 35 or 40. Seducing a girl that young is also distasteful. I would rather pay a professional than actually mess with some young chick's heart.

I'm not disputing that men find women VISUALLY attractive. But some older women can be visually attractive as well, while lacking the annoying immature personalities that plague younger women. And not every older woman is jealous of younger women. Not the secure ones who are sure of their own beauty. Stereotypes and assumptions are bad.

This proves you are young. Yes, its pretty obvious young women have degenerate personalities. But the mistake you are making is that improves with age. Women who are still single when they are 30 definitely are more refined, but that is only because they have figured out what pisses men off after 14 years of trying. As soon as you are married, BAM the bitch is back in full swing. Now, I am just telling you this because you are naive, and you clearly haven't read stories from the past. I mean come on, this is a major part of Homer's writings.

Generally speaking the only women who do not feel a great sense of loss as their decling beauty are women who take their role as mothers very seriously. Those sort of women are not at your college, and in general aren't in the US. Even if the woman is a man hating lesbian on campus, that will change when she reaches a certain age.

Stereotypes are good. It is the greatest tool humans have for making sense of the world. The problem in our society today is they are selectively applied, especially in regards to women. Positive stereotypes regarding women are encouraged (they are civilized, caring, compassionate people). Their vices are unknown to those indoctrinated in colleges.

Conversely, men seemingly have no positive stereotypes. Classical positive stereotypes of men, the poet, the artist, the creator of civilization has now been reserved for homosexuals who are feminine men, even though women cannot be artists of any great measure (with a scarce few exceptions in history). No one would question the validity of the classic masculine vice, aggression.

It has been known throughout the ages that women are vain and have a natural predisposition to the acquisition of material goods (the root word of materialism is mater, or woman in latin). These are tendencies, which perhaps once had biological meaning. It doesn't mean they are a rule... but in our modern society of egalitarians, the belief is there IS no human nature. We have no innate behavioral tendencies. Everything is socialized.

Anyway... you will figure that all out eventually, and try not discard all the wisdom of your ancestors.

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she's been upstaged by Paris by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:35 · Score: 0

Hilton. Seen her home video, she's bopping, the phone rings, she answers it? Better than Bo Derek in 10.

I'm sure Jenni's got more sense than that. You really should see "The Simple Life" on Fox. It's just hillarious.

I had such site by timlyg · 2003-12-05 01:36 · Score: 0

Yea..I think I still have...people check it out! My world is out there too

Oops I crapped my pants by Bitter+Old+Man · 2003-12-05 01:39 · Score: -1

Sorry everyone...

Cassettes came later by HangingChad · 2003-12-05 01:42 · Score: 1

You haven't lived until you loaded your program over a teletype on a long roll of yellow punch tape, which you had to do at a certain time of day so you could have your precious 0.0003 seconds of main frame time. Only to have the tape break half-way through loading. Cassettes were a vast improvement. You know you've been in the business a long time if your first computer kit was named KIM I.

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Re:Cassettes came later by SillySlashdotName · 2003-12-05 05:42 · Score: 1

You young whippersnappers!!

My KIM-1 was NOT my first computer kit...

Shucks, the KIM-1 used the 6502 instruction set, didn't it?

Remember the 8008? The S100 bus? Computer shopper when it was worth getting just for the adds from other users - and it was printed on newsprint?

One of my first professional programming jobs was to write an application on a TRS-80 that did dispatching, inventory, billing, and ordering for a company. The trash-80 had 32K of memory, and TWO 5.25 FLOPPY DRIVES! We were not sure the companies would pay for the second floppy drive or the extra memory - after all, how were they going to justify the cost?

Yeah, the good ol' days...

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Re:Cassettes came later by angst_ridden_hipster · 2003-12-05 08:58 · Score: 1

Christ, man, if you were going to spring for the Expansion Interface, you should have shelled out for the full 48k memory. After all, TRS-DOS used up nearly eight kilobytes.

The smart money was on the 48k upgrade, and running NEWDOS/80, especially when version 2 came out. That, or ProDOS, which had native support for not only SSDD disks, but DSDD disks as well, and no messing around with settings.

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Re:Cassettes came later by HangingChad · 2003-12-05 12:30 · Score: 1

Shucks, the KIM-1 used the 6502 instruction set, didn't it?
Exactly right!
Remember the 8008? The S100 bus?
That was the one you programmed by setting a series of dip switches, right? It was just a box with switches and lights on the front panel. Hey, at least KIM had a real keypad! lol. Man, that brings back memories...a lot of them bad.

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Godbye Jenni the web will miss you. by thbigr · 2003-12-05 01:42 · Score: 1

What can I say that hasn't been said here. I will miss her. She was bold.

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I did that too except to.. by i_want_you_to_throw_ · 2003-12-05 01:47 · Score: 3, Funny

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

Re:I did that too except to.. by Fjord · 2003-12-05 02:50 · Score: 0

LOL

That is way too amusing

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Re:I did that too except to.. by mikael_j · 2003-12-05 03:35 · Score: 1

Ditto, but with alqaeda.net, I decided to drop that site in 2002 after quite a few (badly written) death threats from people with AOL accounts.. humorless bastards, the terrorists handbook on alqaeda.net was funny, in a morbid sort of way...
/Mikael

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Re:I did that too except to.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:00 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I hope you aren't white or you are a fucking race traitor.

for people offended by this, join us at Stormfront. White people are currently 7% of the world's population, in 50 years that will be 1%, in 100 years, .5%. We have no homeland, we will be a minority in all our major countries such as the US, France, and England. We are defending the existence and continuation of the White Race, which potentially could become extinct in a short time.

For those who do not understand the difference between White Nationalism and White Supremacy (which is not really an organized belief) please read this site.
Re:I did that too except to.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 21:19 · Score: 0

I hope you aren't human or you are a fucking race traitor.

For people offended by this, join us in spreading our seed far and wide. Have unprotected sex with as many women of as many ethnicities as you are able. Make as many hapa kids as you can, the sooner this purity stuff becomes impossible, the better. For the women reading this out there, go ahead and have unprotected sex with more women, the world needs more sexed-up lesbians too.

If on Dec 31... by RossWhite · 2003-12-05 01:47 · Score: 1

...Jenni is killed by a sentient houseboat, I'll be really interested. Otherwise, blah.

Re:I've Got It! I've Got It! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:50 · Score: 0, Funny

shouldn't that be 86.7.53.09? Wait, that's reserved... nm :-)

Re:Well, I've been around the net for quite a whil by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:52 · Score: 0

I mean, I know that sounds mean, but it's kind of an 'interesting to some, though not all, bored American kids' thing rather than an 'interesting in general' thing, isn't it?

Yes, but is it "Stuff that matters?"

Oh how sad by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 01:57 · Score: 0

Oh how sad a world it is when they mourn for a camwhore.

Vim by Jennifer+E.+Elaan · 2003-12-05 01:58 · Score: 1

I used to think that way, until the lack of any decent command-line editors at the time ('98 or '99) drove me to start learning Vim. As I became more comfortable in it, I started using it more.

Flash forward to now. I know the function of every key on the keyboard in command mode, and use most of them instinctively. I can barely use notepad now, because when I want to make a change I instinctively reach for the Esc key. And I'm starting to get really spoiled on syntax coloring (including writing my own syntax files for formats that don't already have them) and folding.

The advantage becomes blatantly obvious when one of my coworkers is hanging arond my desk, and suddenly a massive edit just *happens*, leaving them wondering how (usually this involves macros, since a vim macro is defined by 2 keystrokes and executed by 2 keystrokes, making the fact that I'm creating one almost invisible). When you type at over 80WPM, the time involved with reaching for a mouse starts feeling pretty painful.

Vim is rather like a tall mesa. It's hell to climb, but the view from the top is amazing.

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Re:Vim by tomstdenis · 2003-12-05 02:07 · Score: 1

Again totally off mark. I never said the tools are not good. I said they're not required [and generally not good for newbies who grew up with msdos edit then notepad].

While I don't think I type 80 WPM [I do type quickly but prolly not that fast] I don't find using a mouse a huge problem specially since I typically type on a laptop keyboard which has all it's own problems...

Tom

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Re:Vim by Jennifer+E.+Elaan · 2003-12-05 02:12 · Score: 1

I grew up on ms-dos edit, back when it was still an alias for QBASIC /EDIT (actually, I grew up with BASIC 7 for the C128, but that's another story). And certainly, for newbies, there are easier systems.
I seriously doubt that you can type anywhere near 80WPM on a laptop keyboard. Laptop keyboards, by virtue of design, restrict the maximum typing speed for most people. I'd be lucky if I can get 50WPM on one. Typing faster than that, keyboard effects become very important. I'm *extremely* picky about my keyboards, only using decent buckling-spring versions.
I think what you miss here is the "Ease of Use" vs "Efficiency of Use" tradeoff. Vim is *NOT* easy to use. I would never make the claim that it is. The commands are confusing and I spent the first couple years hating it. However, it's the most efficient editor I ever used.

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Re:Vim by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:38 · Score: 0

At last! Someone who also types fast and likes vi (or vim - hey doesn't matter to me.) If I wasn't married already... ;o)

I totally agree about the 'reaching for the mouse' thing, as well as hitting the ESC key and getting strange results (or nothing) whenever using something else like notepad (or when I have to type on someone else's account... and they're using emacs! etc.)

I wonder if I'll ever actually meet someone in 'real life' with this disposition...
Re:Vim by packetgeek · 2003-12-05 04:29 · Score: 1

Again totally off mark. I never said the tools are not good.

Actually, you said I can safely say that perhaps us "young whippersnappers" don't use vim or emacs because they suck?

And in case you seemed unclear the first time you reiterated with I never said that emacs/vim are not powerful. I just said they suck.

So, they suck != not good ???

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Re:Vim by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 05:12 · Score: 0

He's an idiot, let's move on.

and... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:00 · Score: 0

Good riddance to it and her. The net needs less garbage like this.

Re:Well, I've been around the net for quite a whil by ViolentGreen · 2003-12-05 02:01 · Score: 1

It wasn't just localized around computer geeks. There were newspaper articles, magazine articles, spots on news. It got a lot of press. It was a semi-large thing that someone would live their life with a webcam recording their daily activities for the whole world to see. This was before weblogs, before "reality" telivision. It was a fairly new idea.

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Why?!? by rgsmith · 2003-12-05 02:03 · Score: 1

Hundreds of posts thus far, and absolutely NO one has thought to email her or give her a call to find out why she's closing it down? I'm going to drop her an email, and we'll see what response I get back.

CowboyNeal, let's get on the interview thing. Definately a must-have.

Re:Why?!? by Profane+Motherfucker · 2003-12-05 03:42 · Score: 1

Well, I'm guessing becuase nobody really gives a shit. It's like WB dropping some really shitty sitcom and all 12 fans crying about it.

Oh, well. by pointbeing · 2003-12-05 02:16 · Score: 0

At least now we get to watch Paris and Nicole.

Best of luck, Jenni.

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Deep Blue? by bsDaemon · 2003-12-05 02:19 · Score: 1

There is some anime movie called 'Deep Blue' (i think; i try to block it out) that is extremely similar to this. honestly, this is the only time a movie has genuinely disturbed me (saw it freshman year in college)

Re:Deep Blue? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 04:12 · Score: 0

Do you mean Perfect Blue?

While that movie was incredibly disturbing, I don't see what it has to do with Jennicam.
Re:Deep Blue? by bsDaemon · 2003-12-05 04:48 · Score: 1

that would be it. well, she has the website -- and the fat bitch pretends to be her because she's gone insane, and gets the guy to believe the real singer is an imposter so he'll kill her and stuff.

Ripper is a gangster! by doc_traig · 2003-12-05 02:24 · Score: 0

Pnubot was the shit in that conversation. God bless the bots.

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Ahhhhh! by ph43thon · 2003-12-05 02:25 · Score: -1

I hope some eternal flame beast thing rises up to drag you and that joke back to the depths of HELL!@### where you two belong.

p

I kid.. I kid..

Re:Ahhhhh! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:12 · Score: 0

man, you -1 modders take your humorlessness serious..

It's just a little joke

Credit Shmedit by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:28 · Score: 0

"give the girl some credit"

It never ceases to amaze me how some people demand praise for acts that basically require losing any sense of shame.

Re:Credit Shmedit by gryphokk · 2003-12-05 03:04 · Score: 1

It never ceases to amaze me how some people demand praise for acts that basically require losing any sense of shame.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

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You don't date much do you? by laddhebert · 2003-12-05 02:33 · Score: 0

I take it you don't get too many dates huh?

-L

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Older woman by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:33 · Score: -1

My wife is 8 years older than me, in her 40's, has a better body than many woman in their 20's, and loves sex. I'm looking forward to fucking her silly after work tonight.

This is a big moment by gamgee5273 · 2003-12-05 02:35 · Score: 4, Interesting

Understandable, but big. I remember when it came online (yes, Virginia, it was a big thing in the college student Internet community). I checked in on her from time to time and I actually knew an English graduate student who was studying JenniCam as a sort of dynamic autobiography (English students want to see the "textual" in a lot of things... books, poetry, video, toast... I know, I was one). The argument made sense, though, as JenniCam is (or, soon will be, was) an almost completely exposed private life unfolding in front of the viewers' eyes.

And, yes, I was one of the ones who thoguh she was cute. Still do, too. :D

Good-bye, Jenni.

Where!? Where!? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:36 · Score: -1

Did you say bisexual camwhore? URL?

The truly amazing part by Hoi+Polloi · 2003-12-05 02:39 · Score: 2, Interesting

I'm not surprised by it closing, I'm more surprised that it was still going! Sort of like a sci-fi movie where they find dinosaurs still living in some remote jungle valley.

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So What by gnuLNX · 2003-12-05 02:43 · Score: 0

My God....freaking geeks!

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Someone check the coffee-cam by Hoi+Polloi · 2003-12-05 02:47 · Score: 0

That coffee must be finally ready by now

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Who cares? by NickRuisi · 2003-12-05 02:48 · Score: -1, Troll

Really.. who really cares about this? When I was single, I'd rather spend my time in the local bar oogleing real women and trying to get them to go home with me than looking at another self-centered bimbo with trying to make some stupid statement about society.

Re:Who cares? by fuzzybunny · 2003-12-05 03:21 · Score: 1

I can do this during work. It's great working in a large investment bank in a city known for beautiful (albeit cold) women who like to dress attractively. Especially if the company has loads and loads of open meeting areas and cafeterias and windows to offices, and the local culture doesn't frown so much on looking at pretty girls as back home in California :-)

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Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 05:01 · Score: 0

Make it so

(Sounds definitely much better than,
Make it so, Fuzzybunny.)
Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:03 · Score: 0

Euro trash!

A pioneer.... by TheSync · 2003-12-05 02:51 · Score: 4, Interesting

Jenni was definately a "pioneer." I believe she was the first person to do the 24/7 homecam thing in a serious way. And I think her existance helped to drive a lot of reality-based entertainment, including influencing the writers of "The Truman Show". She also was an early blogger.

My wife and I worked with her to produce "The Jennishow," a series of streaming video shows about her crazy life, which changed the course of our company, and without it there never would have been a "Geeks in Space" Slashdot radio show.

We had a lot of fun filming "The Jennishow," including going for a ride in a private plane of a fan, JenniCon with the "top fans", and another fan leading us to the house at the end of the Blair Witch Project. It was a trip!

Re:A pioneer.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:01 · Score: 0

"without it there never would have been a "Geeks in Space" Slashdot radio show."

Would anyone have noticed?
Re:A pioneer.... by happystink · 2003-12-05 06:11 · Score: 1

If you count being an online diarist as being a blogger, there were thousands of "early bloggers" at the same time as her, a lot of them more interesting.

As for the no "Geeks In Space" thing.. Oh man, I'm sorry, I can't even narrow my answer down to one wisecrack on that one.

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First MP3.com, and now this? by telstar · 2003-12-05 02:52 · Score: 2, Funny

Will nobody volunteer to archive the hours and hours of Jennicam footage? We're losing a valuable piece of our digital history.

So wonderfully anti-PC by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 02:52 · Score: -1

Hahahaha! It feels so good to guiltlessly laugh at something not approved of by the Political Correctness Police (PCP?)

Best Early Site ..... by nbvb · 2003-12-05 02:53 · Score: 0

Mirsky's Worst of the Web.

Re:Best Early Site ..... by Hoi+Polloi · 2003-12-05 03:21 · Score: 1

Wow, that gives me flashbacks!

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Re:Best Early Site ..... by red+floyd · 2003-12-05 04:32 · Score: 1

Still missed here. That was a great site!

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wow by jonnyfivealive · 2003-12-05 02:57 · Score: 1

i am entirely amazed at the fact that you got modded up for that. sensible as it was, i never would have thought that the /. crowd would appreciate it, hehe

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Re:I've Got It! I've Got It! by LittleGuy · 2003-12-05 02:59 · Score: 1

I've got it! (I've got it!) I've got it!
I got your IP on the whois thing
I've got it! (I've got it!) I've got it!
For a good view, for a good view, ping....

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Inputs? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:03 · Score: 0

I can still play with her (PCI) slot though.

You are right! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:05 · Score: 0

I need to watch someone do their laundry. Now THAT is fulfilling!

Re:I've Got It! I've Got It! by ph43thon · 2003-12-05 03:10 · Score: 1

hehehe... why do I feel like the only one who took 15 seconds to figure that one out. "Why is this funny? It's a reserved IANA address... is it a funny name at the bottom?" Better than that dumb "Don't go Jennay" joke... AHHHH! I shit my pants in fear.

p

I kid.. I kid..

Nursing homes in the future by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:14 · Score: 0

I'm looking forward to when all of those "oh so trendy" youngsters hit their golden years. There they'll be, with blurry tattoos, ancient piercings, and listening to 40 year old hip hop recordings. Meanwhile their business suit wearing, clean cut, classical music listening grandkids visiting them just roll their eyes and try to stifle their groans.

Re:I've Got It! I've Got It! by Fjord · 2003-12-05 03:16 · Score: 1

Plus, I don't think you can have .09, just .9

86.75.30.9 is fine tho.

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Porn in the past by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:18 · Score: 0

Oh yah!? Well back in MY day I had to look under my dad's bed to find some nudie pix. And they were mostly just T&A or the occasional beaver shot if I was lucky. Now I can find hundreds of cum guzzling teens in seconds! You damn kids have it so easy now-a-days.

damn. by pb · 2003-12-05 03:20 · Score: 1

Not 26 yet. :)

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Re:I've Got It! I've Got It! by KilobyteKnight · 2003-12-05 03:21 · Score: 1

shouldn't that be 86.7.53.09?

64.141.14.2 works if you sing it like:

Sixty-four One-Fourty-One Fourteeeeen Twoooo-woooo-oooo

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Error... by esaglam · 2003-12-05 03:26 · Score: 0

This camera has performed an illegal psycho error and will be shut down permanently....

Please contact your nearest voyeur magazine for possible alternatives...

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Open member's gallery to all as farewell by Quietti · 2003-12-05 03:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

My earliest recollection of Jennicam dates back from 1996. Back then, she was still living a bachelor's life at the dorm and would sometimes tease the camera. I think I even recall one time when she masturbated online (but don't quote me on this, it's been ages).

Looking back, she reminds me of Sarah St-James. Girl-next-door looks that trip your sensor array, but don't explode it. Cute.

I stopped visiting her site the day her picture archive and pretty much anything of interest became a paying subscribtion. Maybe now would be a good time to make everything open-access, as a farewell gift to all, during the last month of operation?

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The Truman Show? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:43 · Score: 0

Isn't this first "reality TV" experiment? People watched it for years, and I bet they'd do it all the time if it was in their living rooms.
Watch someone else's life instead of living your own. We do it all the time..

Maybe The Truman Show isn't far off..

Re:I've Got It! I've Got It! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:53 · Score: 0

You, sir, have just posted the funniest Slashdot comment I've seen as long as I've been visiting this site. Cheers!

Re:You were but... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 03:57 · Score: 0

... you scored -1 and he got +5

I worked with her by EvilStein · 2003-12-05 04:01 · Score: 2, Interesting

I'm happy to say that Courtney is a lot better off these days, IMHO.
She was at Netscape at the same time I was.

Jenni moved to the suburbs of Sacramento, got fat & out of shape, and ended up picking up an office job with the County. heh.

She wasn't the first by EvilStein · 2003-12-05 04:08 · Score: 1

I can't recall the name, but Jenni was *not* the "first camgirl" - but she's probably the first that charged $$$ for it.

But ... by Wordsmith · 2003-12-05 04:08 · Score: 1

But Linus is so much cuuuuuuter!

Don't worry... by kikta · 2003-12-05 04:08 · Score: 1

This guy is a well known troll/jackass. You weren't coming off as elitest. He always comes off as the asshole he is.

Re:Don't worry... by DeltaSigma · 2003-12-05 09:38 · Score: 1

Thanks for the information. I thought it was just a miscommunication... ...of course I'm so gullible I'll probably keep talking to him as long as he doesn't resort to the troll-cornered "you're gay" and other unrelated insults.
Re:Don't worry... by kikta · 2003-12-05 10:34 · Score: 1

I once stumbled upon a thread where him & someone else were disagreeing. Then it turned into something like this:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=88171&cid=7637 617

Had him on my enemies list every since, so I didn't make the mistake of taking him seriously.

In Her Defense by nick_davison · 2003-12-05 04:12 · Score: 1

Taking more of a look around her site, I can't see anywhere where she actually claims to be a web dev.

A couple of personal web pages != being a web developer... Whatever horny wannabe nerds want to believe about a slightly geeky looking chick with a webcam. So, my apologies for disecting skills I can't find her ever claiming to have.

On the other hand, she is in California and she is begging for money - which pretty much fits the profile of most genuine web devs out here right now. ;)

9800 baud? by dr_db · 2003-12-05 04:54 · Score: 1

More like 9600. And when someone told me they had access to one through their university, I told them it was impossible. Nothing was that fast. I was in hog heaven when I went to 300 baud. To get to compuserve I had to dial a local datapac # (for 40 bucks a month) and then connect to compuserve through that (for another 40).

First mouse I saw, I flipped over and used like a trackball. Felt pretty stupid afterwards.

I can still remember 6502 assembly - I used to make cards for the apple. I really like boot tracing disks - that was a riot. Copy the code from the drive controller down into ram, then change the jump out point. Run it, and it would load the first sector of the disk in, then you could trace it, and get it's jump point. All the time, the people writing the copy protection would be fighting that (self modifying code, etc)

I hated tapes. I hated punch cards. I have a daisy wheel printer that weighs at least 150 pounds right behind me now.

I used to visit Jennicam. I will miss that.

That was a Loooong 15 minutes by jafac · 2003-12-05 05:01 · Score: 1

. . . and I was looking forward to spending my autumn years watching her take out her teeth at night, and changing her "adult daipers" - but I guess camwhoring is a sport for the young.

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Roll call by MacJedi · 2003-12-05 05:42 · Score: 3, Funny

24

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She's a dolt by EvilStein · 2003-12-05 05:44 · Score: 1

Look for the old MacAddict interview where she claimed to have a l33t "DOS firewall" - heh

Era, pfft! by Grendel+Drago · 2003-12-05 06:13 · Score: 1

Where are webcam sluts these days? Not the whores, I'm talking about the ones who give it up for free.

Right next to easy venture capital and totally vacant business plans, just behind the internet pet-food store and the internet toenail-clipper store. Across the street from any prospect whatsoever of getting a job.

I tell ya, man, it's not just the corporations who've stopped giving it up for free.

--grendel drago

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Re:Era, pfft! by Afrosheen · 2003-12-05 08:03 · Score: 2, Insightful

It's the opportunistic spirit that drives many would-be-free-camwhores into a life of 'click here to see my naughty parts live'. Think about how many people used to throw old crap away, now they hock it on Ebay. The same concept applies to camwhores. They figure, hell, if I'm going to show my tits on the internet to some anonymous pervs and skript kiddies that cracked the password server, I might as well make a few bucks.

I tell ya, there just aren't enough quality whores anymore.

the real reason by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:17 · Score: 1, Funny

they don't make a webcam with a wide enough lens to capture her entire body

Jennicam by retro128 · 2003-12-05 06:23 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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Re:Jennicam by JDWTopGuy · 2003-12-05 15:16 · Score: 1

You DID take a screenshot, didn't you? I'm not saying you should share it with us, but it'd be a cryin' shame if you didn't take a screenshot.

It'd make a good MasterCard commercial: "Your boobs broadcast directly to your sister's co-worker: Priceless."

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Re:Jennicam by pimpinmonk · 2003-12-05 17:01 · Score: 1

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.
Were these Sisqo routers?
Re:Jennicam by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-06 00:17 · Score: 0

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.

Oh come on. Just admit it, you got so addicted that you wrote an interface into WGET and GIMP to download the latest Jenni image every 30 seconds and check the quanity of pink in the image just to alert you at the earliest possible moment... !

Oh wait... maybe that was me not you ;-)

Bernadette Taylor by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 06:38 · Score: 0

I lost interest in camgirls when Bernadette Taylor left us.

I'm sorry to hear Jenni closing her site. Would much rather heard of Ana Voog leaving.

Re:Bernadette Taylor by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 19:10 · Score: 0

Ditto, I got a little nostologic a couple of days ago and typed up www.bernadette.net just for kicks. Still not responsing at all, I bet she still owns the name. Otherwise some (run of the mill) porn site would have picked it up by now. As I remember it she left really abruptly, without giving any reason, or warning. Part of me was wondering how she was doing with her cancer, even just a text message that she was alive and well would have been nice.
Oddly enough I checked out Jenni's site at the same time, One thing that I noticed was that her journel hasn't been updated since Aug. Besides the occasional naked picture, Jenni was really the first blogger to make a big splash on the Internet.
During the time that I explored both of those sites, I also managed to find a site which featured a couple of "college students", but the site's main page contained a plead from that guy to get that girl back (and a lot of pictures of the two of them together). Seems that they parted ways and the poor smuck was out of a job. In all fairness it was really sad, you know, the typical stuff about how her family hates him, and how much he loves her, etc.

THAT was creepy... by thegnu · 2003-12-05 07:03 · Score: 1

dude, just think about the breasts. no thinky about mauling of web standards...

breasts.
happy.

[although i must admit that i F**KING HATE it when people throw crappy websites together that don't display correctly. grrrrr.....]

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screw the Jennicam, I miss... by sammy+baby · 2003-12-05 07:11 · Score: 2, Interesting

...The Frickcam!

Ah, Miss Frickell, when will you once again grace us with your visage?

Sure, maybe for losers and tools by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:13 · Score: 0

You guys crack me up, taking the whole geek thing so seriously. Go out and get some fresh air. Enjoy a footie match. Get a brew and talk about something meaningful.

You are not alone there by XSforMe · 2003-12-05 07:14 · Score: 1

But I am certain a lot of pervies will say you are.

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Your steak analogy... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 07:19 · Score: 0

...seems kinda flawed (although at the same time, funny - due to the "meat" reference). Mainly, because good steak from a good restaurant is "aged". A lot of people don't know what this means (which means there are a lot of *stupid* people out there), but what it basically means is that to get a *really tender* steak, you have to let it sit - and slowly rot. Basically, in a refrigerated area, you let the meat get *old*. As the meat gets old (ie, is rotting), it gets softer (as well as sweeter - just all part of the putrefacation process!), ie - more tender. At a certain point, it is no longer fit to eat - but there is a spot where you can take it and cook it, and it is just perfect ("aged to perfection" is a common marketing term) and tender.

Makes me wonder how many people in those fancy steak restaurants really understand that they are eating old and rotted meat (btw - please don't get on me about how all meat is "rotting", because it is dead - what do you take me for, an idiot?)...

So, in this case, with aged meat - older is better! Should it be any different for women (I daresay "no!")?

i draw the line at 45... by thegnu · 2003-12-05 07:34 · Score: 1

and search for 50, just so i don't exclude the hot 46-year olds.
and i'm 19. :-) ---[obligatory smiley]

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The G3 is on the M$ loading dock.... by brodin · 2003-12-05 07:38 · Score: 1

only if there's a G3 in the photo. Where's the G3?

The G3 is on the M$ loading dock....

Feeling in a trollish mood today by Kjella · 2003-12-05 07:40 · Score: 2, Funny

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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stephthegeek and ugrabcam by stankyho · 2003-12-05 08:06 · Score: 1

That's ok. The jennicam will be missed. But I have been running ugrabcam on stephthegeek's cam for a couple years now.

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Not eating is free by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 08:23 · Score: 1, Insightful

If only poor people could afford to get to one of those fat-burning movie theaters or weight-reducing restaurants they'd be thin?

You're kidding, right?

I don't know about where you live, but here it doesn't cost anything to step out of the front door and go for a walk or maybe even a run.

math skillz aint good by jonnyfivealive · 2003-12-05 08:26 · Score: 1

no, but i apparently ahve the math skills of a 2 year old, hehe. my mistake, i was trying to say she is roughly 25

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inside story by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 08:31 · Score: 0

Appearently:

PPAA (Pornographical Picture Association of America), a division of MPAA, decided that jennicam.com is stealing profits from paid, famous stars by providing inferior content at a lower price. Thus, the site has to go down.

"tales from the net" by Charlie+Bill · 2003-12-05 08:54 · Score: 1

I was listening to an archived version of "This Americal Life" the other day recorded in 1997 called "Tales From the Net". In it they described the weird reaches of this new Internet thing, including Jennifer Ringley. It all sounded so weird then and they responded with such incredulity:

"What?!? You mean you just have this camera going all the time?!? And its -not- necessarily all about sex?"

It was as if it were some sort of big joke that only they appreciated.

Now, when cams are as ubiquitous as teenaged girls with problems, I wonder if they were...

reality tv... by Kashif+Shaikh · 2003-12-05 10:08 · Score: 1

Just what is so fucking interesting watching reality tv shows? They try to make it interesting with one party trying to badmouth the next(i.e. "So what do you think of Sasha?").

I don't know why people like it, but people like my bro absolutely love "american idol", "joe blow", "911", "bachelor"(in canada), etc. My bro isn't the 'regular joe'(he's pretty smart), but something of those shows appeals to him. I for one, cannot sit through any reality tv.

Real life is boring, I like to watch more interesting shows such as CSI(amazing drama).

kashif

Man, where is the story and drama of shows these days?

Re:Well that sucks... I hope DarlCam closes soon! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-05 11:12 · Score: 0

...as I would certainly welcome that news!!!

An upshot of the innovation of web voyeurism... by ctrl-alt-elite · 2003-12-05 11:17 · Score: 1

While it may have spawned innumerable teenage imitators, one fortunate side-effect of the JenniCam is the FatCam the webcam that allows you to track the daily intake of junk food consumed by the developers at Troika Games.

I love the Internet...

Dev-cam by Avihson · 2003-12-05 13:09 · Score: 1

So when is Linus gonna set up a cam and get naked while coding some kernel schedulers? Can I buy him stuff from his wishlist while I read his blog about libc calls

Better Linus than Ballmer!

Live! Nude! Uncle Fester Uncut, Uncensored.....

Do You really want to start that kind of arms race?

Re:That's another piece of internet culture gone.. by JDWTopGuy · 2003-12-05 15:09 · Score: 1

That's okay, because then:

In Soviet Russia, all your base are still belong to us!

Now when the soviet russia effect goes out, start panicking. But the real meltdown happens if somebody can prove that 42 is NOT the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

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The Real Milestone by llywrch · 2003-12-05 15:09 · Score: 1

Ah, 1995, I remember it well . . .

I was working for this company that soon became a synonym for a hightech sweatshop: Stream. And one of their clients was called Netscape. Yes, _that_ Netscape.

I joined the team supporting Netscape about a month before they released NS 1.2 -- the one you could buy in the stores bundled with Eudora, some crummy 3rd-party TCPIP stack, & the Shiva dialer. Talk about going from the light into darkness with one step: one week, almost every other call I handle is from someone who knows more about computers than I did -- calls from Sandia Labs, Hewlett Packard (back when they knew technology), the NASA Jet Propulsion Labs in California, a sysadmin from InfoWorld, &c. -- the next week, I'm talking to people who don't know their backspace key from the left arrow. Jeez, I still think I could hear the IQ of our customers fall in the days between those events.

You know, sometimes I hate the fact that I earned a paycheck helping these jerks onto the Internet. Probably almost as much as Stream's current employees who have to support computer software & hardware that was broken when designed.

Ever since I left Stream, my experience of the Internet has consisted of finding one more neat use or idea that eventually gets destroyed because the great mass of the unwashed decides to make it their personal urinal.

And if you should ever meet a guy by the name of C. P. Thompson who worked for Netscape, kick him in the nuts for me. He was a PHB before Scott Adams was ever cool.

Geoff

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Oh no! by Go+Aptran · 2003-12-05 16:18 · Score: 1

Now where will I go to look at endless images of an empty couch or a computer chair with a coat draped over it?

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Who'se next? by Cyclone66 · 2003-12-05 16:24 · Score: 1

So when is goatse going to retire?? Please god let it be soon..
After that.. tub girl...

Putting the "whore" in "camwhore" by Bloody+Twit · 2003-12-05 17:58 · Score: 1

(warning: slow links ahead)

I recall a little rant from long ago in response to then-19-year-old Jenni admitting to cheating on her boyfriend. Thrice. With the same 32-year-old guy. She caps-off the cyber-confession by commiting some good ol' fashioned copyright infringement against Peter Gabriel.

Good reading, really.

Oh, and good riddance you lousy, cheating, exhibitionist bitch.

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The Jennishow by ackme · 2003-12-06 02:16 · Score: 1

The Jennishow was the best thing about the whole Jennican phenomenon. Viewer mail was great fun, the new car, the cooking show, and going to meet her family was just surreal. It made Jenni "real" in a way that the cam never did. Lots of good stuff was on "The Sync" in those days, but nothing came close to The Jennishow.

Good job, thanks!

It's called "aging" by OhioJoe · 2003-12-06 17:09 · Score: 1

She closed after 7 years because she started it when she was 33. :)

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in Yahoo by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-07 16:15 · Score: 0

Download yahoo messenger

login after registering

Chat - Join group, Romance, Adult,

spree, the hedgehog by milovoo · 2003-12-15 22:12 · Score: 1

I'm going to miss Spree, the hedgehog the most.

Did anyone else out there tune in for spree?

Apparently he ended up at the Saint Louis Zoo, sigh,
I guess I wasn't keeping up.

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