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Webcam

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A glimpse of the private life of Jennifer Ringley, who has a Webcam in her bedroom.

Any camera connected to the Internet, usually for the purpose of displaying an image on a Web page. Webcams are trained on a wide range of famous sights such as London's Tower Bridge. They have also been placed inside birds' nesting boxes, refrigerators, strip clubs, and bedrooms. What may have been the first Webcam was aimed at a flask of coffee in the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. An American, Jennifer Ringley, pioneered the use of Webcams to put her private life on public display with the JenniCam.



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