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The First Image Published on the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-than-barbie-and-the-rockers dept.

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.""

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  1. Gasp! by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    "A charming picture of "Les Horribles Cernettes"... 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!

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    1. Re:Gasp! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > Gasp! Girl geeks! Be still my beating heart!
      >Vital measurments: 503px by 400px w00-w00!

      LHC? Hey, it gave me a hadron.

    2. Re:Gasp! by Chess_the_cat · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah and it's even weirder when you remember the WWW predates the graphical browser. So I guess Tim Berner's Lee posted the image but no one saw it until Mosaic was released.

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    3. Re:Gasp! by rk · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey, that's okay, 'cause so am I. :D

  2. And the second image by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was those same women with their clothes off.

    1. Re:And the second image by Gromius · · Score: 5, Funny

      bet that would give somebody a hadron... /ducks

    2. Re:And the second image by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
      > And the second image
      > Was those same women with their clothes off.

      Close, but not quite. It was those same women with their undergarments simultaneously teleported one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.

      Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for such a thing, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

    3. Re:And the second image by drix · · Score: 3, Funny

      The porn finds you, silly. Honestly, how long have you been on this "Internet" thing? A day? ;)

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      I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
    4. Re:And the second image by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Same here -- this guy comes over to my house and says "Hey there's a new way of getting porn where you don't have to run uudecode!!".

  3. Passed what??? by jdray · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...I was passing an historical milestone...

    Is that more painful than passing a kidney stone?

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  4. The web, then, as now. by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 5, Funny

    One word: Cleavage

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  5. Girl Band! by clean_stoner · · Score: 5, Funny

    A girl band singing about physics?! It's a nerd's dream come true.

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    1. Re:Girl Band! by Gromius · · Score: 5, Funny

      and I hear they have massive bosons too :)

    2. Re:Girl Band! by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny
      A girl band singing about physics?! It's a nerd's dream come true.

      The actually kinda remind me of the B-52's...

      radio shack is a little old place we can get together, radio shack, bayyy-beeee!

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    3. Re:Girl Band! by ScruffyScrode · · Score: 3, Funny

      A girl band singing about physics?! It's a nerd's dream come true.

      So you are telling us you had a nerdgasm?

  6. of course by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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    1. Re:of course by fyoder · · Score: 4, Funny
      I used to think that Tim Berners-Lee could never have anticipated that the web would become a major porn delivery system. Now I discover he started it.

      I had thought it was intended for physicists to use to share data. I suppose that could still be said to be true, and that it is just my assumptions about the nature of the data that were wrong.

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  7. ...and then, the unthinkable. by LakeSolon · · Score: 5, Funny

    And then it was posted to Slashdot. Well, it had a good run.

    ~Lake

    1. Re:...and then, the unthinkable. by CA_Jim · · Score: 4, Funny

      On the other hand, a picture of pretty women was posted on the web for 12 years before slashdot hit them. It makes you wonder if /. crowd is slowing down.

  8. Slashdot server... by clean_stoner · · Score: 5, Funny

    slows to a halt as four thousand nerds all simultaneously click "Submit" on their joke about nerdy girls in a band.

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  9. Sloooow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And of course, the picture is loading about as fast as it would have when the web was first invented.

  10. Typical /. late coverage by Piquan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, this information was known for what, 12 years?

  11. I am using Lynx, you... by melikamp · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am using Lynx, you insensitive clod!

    1. Re:I am using Lynx, you... by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Here's the ascii version:

      /O\ /O\
      -|---|--
      / \ / \

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  12. OMG! by asdfasdfasdfasdf · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd Hit it!!!

    Oh, wait. Crap. Wrong website.

  13. I swear that's what I read! by NoData · · Score: 3, Funny

    AWWW. Damn you. I actually did misread the caption, which in actuality reads:

    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.

  14. Re:Teaser by cpghost · · Score: 4, Funny

    C'mon, baby, let me show you my pointer.

    Uh, that dangling pointer?

    /ducks :)

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  15. Re:Old-skool by Alien+Being · · Score: 4, Funny

    chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga zip
    chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga zip
    chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga zip
    ooh, yeah baby, that's it
    chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga zip
    chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga zip
    a little more
    chugga chugga chugga chugga ding ding ding ding

  16. Obligatory by MagicDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd hit it....


    Wait, isn't this Fark?

  17. Les Horribles Cernettes .... ? by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was anybody else even slightly scared that they were going to get Goatse?

    (oh: sweet open-sourced information! Get some while it lasts!)