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The First Image Published on the Web
rcastro0 writes "A charming picture of "Les Horribles Cernettes" was the first ever to grace a web browser window, according to Silvano de Gennaro from the CERN Music Club site. He writes '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".' As an aside, the all-girl rock band is still singing about "colliders, quarks, microwaves, antiprotons and the Internet.""
Gasp! Girl geeks! Be still my beating heart!
Vital measurments: 503px by 400px w00-w00!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Was those same women with their clothes off.
Is that more painful than passing a kidney stone?
The Spoon
Updated 6/28/2011
I was tranfering pictures with fricken teletypes long before this.
One word: Cleavage
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
A girl band singing about physics?! It's a nerd's dream come true.
Sigs are for the weak.
"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!"
The first picture on the web maybe, but only one of countless slashdotted sites.
it's a no brainer that the first photo on the web is of seductively posed young women
that's been the basis of the web ever since
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
And then it was posted to Slashdot. Well, it had a good run.
~Lake
...here is the last image published on the web.
slows to a halt as four thousand nerds all simultaneously click "Submit" on their joke about nerdy girls in a band.
Sigs are for the weak.
And of course, the picture is loading about as fast as it would have when the web was first invented.
I'm pretty sure 1983 is before 1992... :)
First Pictures of the WWW
Stuff that matters, indeed.
Followed by the first SpyWare...
please tell us about your web surfing experience in an email, be sure to include anything you yourself have typed, such as credit card numbers, expiration dates, password, PIN numbers, and so on.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Is the speed intentional or has the site already been ./ed. It made me laugh either way
Judging by the speed at which images load from this site, they still use that original server, and 56K leased line from 1992.
That was terrible. And I'm mad that you beat me to it.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
I mean, this information was known for what, 12 years?
Hardonic Festival? So the Web was actually produced for porn, and all this physics crap clogging it up is just scientists getting a free ride.
--
make install -not war
Their home page uses the blink tag, what more proof do you need?
InThane
I am using Lynx, you insensitive clod!
I'd Hit it!!!
Oh, wait. Crap. Wrong website.
AWWW. Damn you. I actually did misread the caption, which in actuality reads:
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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".
CERN Hard-onic festival?! Wha wha wha?!!!! I thought they were Swiss not Swedes...
But damn. The second one from the left..niiiice. Got that Susanna Hoffs thang going on.
We slashdotted CERN? Holy mother of god, do you know what the size of their pipe is and the amount of computing power they have there? They are more or less the centre of GRID development, they routinely break file transfer rates records and they routinely transfer terrbytes of information accross the world to universities. Looks like distributed computing 0, distributed slashdoting 1
C'mon, baby, let me show you my pointer.
Uh, that dangling pointer?
/ducks :)
cpghost at Cordula's Web.
I'd hit it....
Wait, isn't this Fark?
Was anybody else even slightly scared that they were going to get Goatse?
(oh: sweet open-sourced information! Get some while it lasts!)
Provided a new heavy isotope of the beer atom is produced in significant quantities....
Congratulations on one of the lamest attempts at hitting all the Slashdot talking points for karma whoring purposes. "Uh, see, this is the first image on the web, so for some reason it's a copyright violation, and somehow that ties into P2P networks, and the RIAA is evil if they're gonna try to ban that and control music and the whole web and I AM NOT A ROBOT!!"
You fail it.
I remember seeing them perform at CERN during that summer. Their tunes included "Daddy's Lab", "My sweetheart is a Nobel prize", and "Microwave love". I also remember that in a promotional photo, the boyfriend of one of the members digitally enhanced her breasts. The alteration was removed (after she heard about it, I believe).
No, it was on NeXTStep. Capitalisation is meaningful here, as NEXTSTEP was the name given to the system only after NeXT hardware was abandoned. Berners-Lee did all his work on NeXT hardware, in the NeXTStep days. See ObjectFarm's OpenStep Confusion.
with my supercollider.