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The first picture on the Web

A bit of history here. From the CERN MusiClub:

LHC: The First Band on the Web



You are looking at the VERY FIRST photo ever published on the web!

Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hardronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of "the CERN girls" to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the "World Wide Web". I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them to Tim's now famous "info.cern.ch". How was I to know that I was passing an historical milestone, as the one above was the first picture ever to be clicked on in a web browser!"

Silvano de Gennaro

Very cool -- hard to believe that the web celebrated its tenth birthday a few years ago... Posted by DaveH at December 1, 2005 2:05 PM