14/04/1996 Nineteen year old Jennifer Ringley creates the popular website JenniCam
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The Girl Who Accidentally Invented Live-Streaming
During her junior year at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Jennifer Ringley installed a webcam in her dorm room and provided images from that webcam on her website named JenniCam. The webpage refreshed automatically every 3 minutes with the most recent picture from the camera.