JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years

An anonymous Jenni fan writes "Details are sketchy, but apparently within the past few days, JenniCam has announced that it is closing permanently on New Year's Eve. Jenni Ringley has run the site for over 7 and a half years and was even voted more popular than Linus in a ZDNet poll. Of course, such constant exposure has had its downsides; she has received death threats in the past. Last chance to check out that Slashbox while her life is still online."

Re:Closing Jennicam?

[Meowing]

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

Close, sort of. it was at the other Cambridge [cam.ac.uk].

Much more interesting camgirl

[Anonymous Coward]

While Jenni is mildly attractive, there are far more sexier and interesting camgirls out there. My favourite at the moment is Mercatur [mercatur.net], 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 [mercatur.net]) to advice on how to give good head to a guy (link [mercatur.net]).

She is also extremely cute. [mercatur.net] And single, I believe ;-)

Re:Jumped the Shark...

[weave]

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.

The original coffee-cam was at Cambridge, England

[hughk]

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.

the reason this is special

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:The coffeecam relocated

[physos]

It is here now:

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

Re:Much more interesting camgirl

[ScottSpeaks!]

...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:Closing Jennicam?

[ykardia]

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 [spiegel.de]

Re:Jumped the Shark...

[markhb]

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?

Re:Am I the only one?

[Gandalf]

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?

[christopher240240]

mosaic

Re:Jumped the Shark...

[Anonymous Coward]

"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:The end of an era...

[Drakonian]

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 [findarticles.com] 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.