Initially the camera tended to be turned off during especially private moments, but after awhile the site displayed Ringley engaging in full sexual intercourse, including explicit oral and vaginal sex. It was not billed, however, as a pornography site and indeed it was not, because rather than showing staged sex acts for purely commercial benefit, it showed all details of Ringley's life. It was therefore one of the first opportunities, in any medium, ever to legally observe the ordinary human sexual behavior of a complete stranger. Washington D.C. Ringley moved to Washington, D.C. in 1998. She added webcams to cover the additional living space (four webcams captured images of her life). Eventually, she started to charge for access to her site, allowing both paid and free access with the paid access updating the images more frequently than the free access. She added more pages to her website that included pictures of her cats and ferrets. Her site was doing well as she stayed home and claimed her profession to be a "web designer" for her site.[11] Ringley attracted a following both on and off the Internet. Ringley owned several ferrets and "Ferret Magazine" featured Jenni and one of her ferrets on the cover of their magazine. Years later, Ringley appeared topless and even nude in "Celebrity Sleuth," an adult magazine featuring minor celebrities. Jenni also appeared in an episode of the television show Diagnosis Murder, playing a fictionalized version of herself. She also hosted her own Internet talk show on The Sync, an early webcasting network based in Laurel, Maryland. Ringley's standard of living improved with a new larger apartment, expensive furniture and several trips to Amsterdam with her accountant, which she claimed were business trips. She also claimed that the experience improved her self image and self body image.[12] Ringley began to take trips to visit other cam girls, including Ana Voog of Anacam.com. At the height of her popularity, an estimated three to four million people watched JenniCam.org daily. Jenni eventually purchased the domain jennicam.com as well. Ringley appeared on July 31, 1998 as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. At the end of the interview, and even after having been corrected once, Letterman plugged the site as Jennicam.net instead of the correct Jennicam.com (Ringley owned both jennicam.com and jennicam.org). People visiting the previously non-existent Jennicam.net found a porn site with the greeting, "Thanks Dave". She also appeared on the Today Show, and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.[13] Sacramento Ringley later moved to Sacramento, California. Some fuss was made when she suddenly became involved with a man who had been involved in a stable relationship with a common friend.[14] She shut her site down on December 31, 2003, citing Paypal's new anti-nudity policy.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Trivia Parody sites arose as Jennicam became more popular as well. One known one was jonnicam.com, the life of a cat who pooped in a litter box. Ringley sometimes went by her initials JKR.
