First pic uploaded to teh interwbs

[ThePresence]

This.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...rate-photo-20th-anniversary-article-1.1111769

The first photo to ever be uploaded to the Internet is, not surprisingly, pretty underwhelming.

The image, uploaded by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee in 1992, was edited on a color Mac in version one of Photoshop and saved as a .gif, according to Mother Board.

Now the rudimentary photo is experiencing a rather small-scale revival as it celebrates its 20th birthday on July 18.

"It's sort of terrible and charming," Lesley Martin, a photo scholar at the Aperture Foundation, told Mother Board after she was shown the picture for the first time.

The image contains a photo of a comedic musical group known as Les Horrible Cernettes. The group consisted of both admin assistants and significant others of scientists at the CERN laboratory in Geneva.

Silvano de Gennaro, an IT developer at CERN, took the photo of the Cernettes while he was backstage at the Hardronic Music Festival, an event organized by CERN's administrators, on July 18, 1992.

"When history happens, you don't know that you're in it," de Gennaro told Mother Board.

The musical group, which became pretty popular among members of the European physics community in the early '90s, caught the attention of Berners-Lee when he befriended one of the group's members, Colette Marx-Nielsen.

Marx-Nielsen was also part of an amateur operatic society that Berners-Lee belonged to. He was a pantomime for the group, often dressing up for audiences as a woman.

When Berners-Lee began developing a new version of the World Wide Web that supported photos , he turned to de Gennaro, who had been playing with the Cernettes photo on version one of Photoshop.

"The Web, back in '92 and '93, was exclusively used by physicists," de Gennaro told Mother Board. "I was like, 'Why do you want to put the Cernettes on that? It's only text!' And he said, 'No, it's gonna be fun!'"

Berners-Lee then uploaded the image to a Web page about CERN's musical acts without issue, changing the way the Web looks forever with one seemingly insignificant photo.

The original version of the image has since disappeared. The Mac it was edited on died in 1998.

But the Cernettes, who are performing at their last-ever concert on July 14, still take pride in it.

"I kinda put it out sometimes and say, 'Well, I'm in the first photograph on the World Wide Web.' People don't really care," Marx-Nielsen said. "I suppose it had to be somebody, and it just happened to be us."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...h-anniversary-article-1.1111769#ixzz20KtRNBGB

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Looks shopped.

 

[NatePo717]

And here I thought it would have been porn of some sort.

 

[manimal]

glad it wasnt of a scrotum or a tain.

or goatse

 

[khon]

Not at all surprised that it was a picture of women, only surprise is that they're actually dressed.

 

[rh71]

1992–1995: Growth of the WWW

In keeping with its birth at CERN, early adopters of the World Wide Web were primarily university-based scientific departments or physics laboratories such as Fermilab and SLAC.

Early websites intermingled links for both the HTTP web protocol and the then-popular Gopher protocol, which provided access to content through hypertext menus presented as a file system rather than through HTML files. Early Web users would navigate either by bookmarking popular directory pages, such as Berners-Lee's first site at http://info.cern.ch/, or by consulting updated lists such as the NCSA "What's New" page. Some sites were also indexed by WAIS, enabling users to submit full-text searches similar to the capability later provided by search engines.

There was still no graphical browser available for computers besides the NeXT. This gap was filled in April 1992 with the release of Erwise, an application developed at the Helsinki University of Technology, and in May by ViolaWWW, created by Pei-Yuan Wei, which included advanced features such as embedded graphics, scripting, and animation.[7] ViolaWWW was originally an application for HyperCard. Both programs ran on the X Window System for Unix.[7]

Students at the University of Kansas adapted an existing text-only hypertext browser, Lynx, to access the web. Lynx was available on Unix and DOS, and some web designers, unimpressed with glossy graphical websites, held that a website not accessible through Lynx wasn’t worth visiting.

So if the graphical browser first came in April '92, how come that was the 1st image uploaded months later in July '92?

Did they test the graphical browser with text?

 

[dank69]

And here I thought it would have been porn of some sort.

That was the 2nd one. And the 3rd. And the 4th-1000th.