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I remember Jennicam. It wasn’t porn, but people watched it in the hope that some day porn might break out.

Looking back, anyone could have predicted that live streaming technology would eventually be used for porn, but what really surprised me was that the actual killer app of live streaming turned out to be watching people play video games.

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I remember a parody account where a girl livestreamed her life from a camera shoved down her pants. Of course the screen was dark the entire time.

Edit: A remnant of the site still exists!

http://www.monzy.org/pantscam/

If you watched late at night it was porn any time her boyfriend stayed over. She definitely had sex live on the cam.

I am pretty sure I remember tuning in and seeing sex multiple times. Maybe I misremember...

Playing semantics here, but is that porn? You could argue it wasn't made with prurient intent.

It was watched with it, though.

No matter what the thing is, someone, somewhere, gets off on it. It's like a reverse Rule 34. (Is there already a rule saying "whatever it is, it's porn for someone"?)

A true movie of life could never be made - it'd be too obscene to get published...

wiki is saying she did stripteases for the camera.

She originally gave access to the stream for free and then later started charging for it. She also originally blocked it during sex but then stopped. Makes me think she had a "people will pay to see me bang" motivation.

Not proud of the fact that I know this, but a certain Hitachi-manufactured appliance made an appearance a few times. Ahh, the 90s, when a 180x180 pixel badly focused image at 1 fps was all it took

Was it even 1 FPS? I seem to recall it only took a picture once every few seconds.

She clearly missed out on some product placement opportunities.

It was definitely every few seconds, as 12 year old me remembers!

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