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1996·Early web, before YouTube

JenniCam

The first person to put her whole life online, a decade before anybody called it content.

You might remember it as Jennifer Ringley webcam

From the early web

This Moment began as a web page, not as a video.

The story

What this was

Jennifer Ringley, a nineteen-year-old student at Dickinson College, pointed a webcam at her room and left it running. The site ran from 14 April 1996 to 31 December 2003. Before it, webcams watched coffee pots and car parks; this one watched a life, and millions of people a day watched back. The Museum of Modern Art included it in a 1999 exhibition.

It first appeared in 1996, during early web, before YouTube.

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Early web, before YouTube

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Behind the record

Where it came from

There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a web page, not as a video.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

What happens
Jennifer Ringley, a nineteen-year-old student at Dickinson College, pointed a webcam at her room and left it running. The site ran from 14 April 1996 to 31 December 2003. Before it, webcams watched coffee pots and car parks; this one watched a life, and millions of people a day watched back. The Museum of Modern Art included it in a 1999 exhibition.
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