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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. Coral Cache Link... by openglx · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://musiclub.web.cern.ch.nyud.net:8090/MusiClub /bands/cernettes/firstband.html

  2. A mirror by James_G · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mirror here.

  3. Re:What Kind Of Scanner... by RatBastard · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  4. img tags didn't exist then by dananderson · · Score: 4, Informative
    img tags didn't exist in '92. They came later with Mosaic. It was probably an anchor () tag that was required.

    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.
    1. Re:img tags didn't exist then by sepluv · · Score: 3, Informative
      I'm glad to hear that. This is the obvious way of doing it, and I couldn't think why on earth he didn't do it that way.

      That's how it is in XHTML 2.0 anyway, so he's got his way now.

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  5. Re:This has to be fake by plcurechax · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:This has to be fake by node+3 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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).

  7. Re:Gasp! by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  8. Re:Gasp! by DarkMantle · · Score: 3, Informative

    this images does not predate image viewers.

    Exactly, the site says it was the first image ever clicked on. Not viewed inline.

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