In April 1995, "Rox", a small public access program from Bloomington, Indiana, became the first series distributed via the web, with an episode titled "Global Village Idiots". In January 1999, Showtime licensed the animated sci-fi web series "WhirlGirl", making it the first independently produced web series licensed by a national television network. A month later, the series, created by David B. Williams and produced by his Visionary Media studio, premiered on Showtime in a first-ever simultaneous web/telecast. The WhirlGirl character went on to appear occasionally on Showtime, hosting a “Lethal Ladies” programming block, for example, but spent most of her time online, appearing in 100 webisodes.