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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.""
http://musiclub.web.cern.ch.nyud.net:8090/MusiClub /bands/cernettes/firstband.html
Mirror here.
Welp, I had an Abaton 300 DPI SCSI scanner on my PC that was originally a Mac scanner. That was back in 1991 or 1992. Back when Everex (who owned Abaton) was still alive. It was a three-pass monstrosity that overheated on the third pass half the time, resulting in red streaks down the image.
I remember selling scanners for Macs years before people on PCs were interested in them back in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Tee-hee. Interesting.
t es/songs/on_the_web.html
http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/musiclub/bands/cernet
SNACKS ARE AWESOME
On musiclub.web.cern.ch/musiclub/bands/cernettes/ there was a large 57MB Real Player RM file that will probably get /.'ed so I created a torrent.
HERE is the TORRENT
LHCLive.rm
Peace
Mosaic didn't support JPG initially either--just GIF and some obscure X bitmap file (xbm?). JPG support came later with Netscape and latter versions of Mosaic.
Here is a torrent of the Geek Girls :P
Geek GirlsPeace
Actually all the early browsers didn't have inline attachment support. They either dumped it to a file (Save As...) or based on the MIME type (graphics/jpeg) they would launch an external application like xv.
The first web browser was on NEXTSTEP (now called OS X), which supported jpeg natively. If you support images at all using NEXSTEP's built-in objects (I assume it was NSImage then as now), you automatically get jpeg support. You'd have to pretty much have some reason not to show jpegs if you weren't going to include support for them, unlike Netscape (nee Mosaic) where the developers had to add in all the formats you wanted individually (graphics format support wasn't all that advanced back then under most Unices, as Rasterman wouldn't start on imlib for about 4-5 years).
She has her left elbow close to her waist, and has her left hand turned outwards, you twit.
A few notes on how the band started:
The group -- which bills itself as "the one and only High Energy Rock Band" -- formed in 1990 when a secretary at CERN complained that her physicist boyfriend spent his nights and weekends smashing protons in an underground collider. She confessed her woes to friend and computer scientist at the laboratory, Silvano de Gennaro, who wrote a song about her plight.
From that episode, "Collider" was born:
I gave you a golden ring to show you my love
You went to stick it in a printed circuit
To fix a voltage leak in your collector
You plug my feelings into your detector
You never spend your nights with me
You don't go out with other girls either
You prefer your collider
You only love your collider
Your collider.
Other songs:
"Surfing on the Web" (Surf me on the Web/ My page is all for you/ Call me on the Web/ I'll open my windows to you), "Strong Interaction" (You quark me up/ You quark me down/ You quark me top/ You quark me bottom), and "Computer Games" (Since you've gone away/ I've got a million games to play/ I've got your 80 megabytes full of computer games)
An interesting start to downloading of pictures on the web...
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Well, back in 1992 the web was mostly text. For a 217K image, you didn't view the picture inline on a webpage.
:)
You would download the file and view the image in an external image viewer; sort of like how you would do it via FTP or Gopher.
And yes, I remember having a 1200 Baud modem, which was about as fast as the LHC is right now under the Slashdot effect
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this images does not predate image viewers.
Exactly, the site says it was the first image ever clicked on. Not viewed inline.
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
I know what you mean. Golden times.
Also there were many images converted from the nice Deluxe Paint IFF images on the Amiga.
A few sites on the net appears to collect these old files. I have a modest archive with the entire contents of some BBS image folders from 1989 to 1990. Try searching for yrose.gif, clown.gif, cheetah.gif, mouse.gif - they sometimes yield a cache of these things.
http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/GIFS/
There's one...