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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
http://musiclub.web.cern.ch.nyud.net:8090/MusiClub /bands/cernettes/firstband.html
And then it was posted to Slashdot. Well, it had a good run.
~Lake
Mirrors?
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.
who's floating hand is that on the red dress?
...was available for Macs in '92? Color even?
Mirror here.
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.
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
You'd think he would have compressed the jpeg a little better. An image like that shouldn't be 217k. With a "normal" jpeg compression algorithm the file is brought down to 65k with no loss in quality. Especially with the amazing 10BaseT and 2400 baud modem technology available in 1992!
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
That was terrible. And I'm mad that you beat me to it.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
But when were those photos of BG posted to the www? I've got photos of my great grandparents from 18xx but they weren't on the web before 1992.
cat life | grep joy >> memory
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
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.
Surely the first image to appear in a web browser was one during the development of the browser. You don't just chuck in some code and wait for your users to tell you if it loads images or not. Images would have been one of the first things tested.
Even the standards for displaying the images were thought up and hopefully tested long before the first image compatable web browser was made.
Their home page uses the blink tag, what more proof do you need?
InThane
Does this help? I'm engaged to a geek girl I met on a C Programming channel on IRC. :) And she cooks too!
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
J.-L. Godard
This is...
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I am using Lynx, you insensitive clod!
Do you need a drm thingie to view it?
Your skill in reading has increased by one point!
Well, it gave me a hadron!
It's physics girls, it's 0053am, gimme a break...
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
That must've been a fun courtship.
"C'mon, baby, let me show you my pointer."
http://musiclub.web.cern.ch.nyud.net:8090/MusiClub /bands/cernettes/firstband.html
In case of Slashdotting, break mirror.
It was women.
;)
The year after, when I started studying CS at the university of Copenhagen, the net was already awash with porn (ok, slightly exaggerated, but it was there and easy to find)...
Not very good quality, resolution-wise, but we got the general idea
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
That is a lame picture.
To think that a medium that bolstered the US (and World) Economy via the "dotcom boom" and still generates billions of dollars a year for the pr0n industry would have started out with the transmission of such a stupid picture restores my hope for the future.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
I'd Hit it!!!
Oh, wait. Crap. Wrong website.
Did he work something out with his wife so she could keep hers?
Seriously, I've heard of women keeping Maiden names, but not men. I doubt it's a Maiden name thing, but I'm just curious how he got a hyphenated last name.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
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.
Yeah, that Darl McBride guy has sure changed since then...
But I thought Mr. Goatse was the first to grace the internet with his gaping hilarity?
Before trying to look smart, look at the pictures.
mnewberg.com
I worked at CERN a couple of summers ago and saw the Cernettes and other physicsfolken band play at the Hardronic festival. I have to say, it's an otherworldly experience. CERN is one of those weird meshing places where there's an overload of talent. You'll walk out of a lecture on the Standard Model and hear someone in the next room roaring through a Beethoven sonata, or pass by the terrace and see the old hands of particle physics, maybe even a Nobel laureate, chucking around a frisbee. I found it extremely inspiring.
To follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ("Ulysses", Tennyson)
Does this help? I'm engaged to a geek girl I met on a C Programming channel on IRC. :) And she cooks too!
Oh, sweet jesus this guy is springer fodder.
Ummmm...yeah, if 'she' asks you to meet 'her' for the first time late at night at some sleazy motel off the turnpike, for the LOVE OF GOD, man, don't go.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
C'mon, baby, let me show you my pointer.
Uh, that dangling pointer?
/ducks :)
cpghost at Cordula's Web.
Except that "very first photo" is called "LHC5.jpg". No web browser supported jpeg format until Netscape.
I call shenanigans.
Here is a torrent of the Geek Girls :P
Geek GirlsPeace
With such *hot* girl geeks, it's no wonder it never took that long for porn to be available on the web.
No it wasn't and don't call me Shirley.
Good, inexpensive web hosting
...What was the first site ever to be Slashdotted?
The net had been awash with porn for years, on usenet. I think it took another week after this photo was up on the web that the web was awash with porn.
J
I'm pretty sure the dancing 7-Up guy was first. Either that, or the letter that mails itself. Two. Amazing. Classics. ;)
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.
beat, heheh
... that gave birth to a whole new way of disseminating porn.
is an authentic reproduction of the page that carried the first internet photograph. Even the load times are the same!
That self mailing e letter was a classic, but the construction worker sign - the one with an stickman digging holes on the ground - would be #1 for me.
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...
This sig donated to Pater. Long live
on my Amiga 1000 from a BBS. It was in 4096 color HAM mode, at a time when EGA was standard on PCs and the Mac only did Black and White.
Yes it was of a woman.
I showed it to a friend of mine, and all he could say was "yeah but it doesn't move", and went back to using his Hercules based AT clone with the monocrome monitor and downloading MacPaint images in black and white using some DOS reader to view them, having to scroll up and down to look at dithered women.
I think after that, someone got the idea to create animated files of women and post them to BBSes or the Internet.
It was unusual, there it was, magazine quality image of a woman, and all he could say was that it didn't move. Something his computer could not display, ah well.
The woman in the Amiga picture was in her underware, IIRC, but had good skin tones.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
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).
Does it not say something about slashdot that the first image on the web was a bunch of chicks and we're only finding out about it in 2005.
:)
I guess that's pretty much the sketch for most folk here
Judging from the time it took to load the page apparently they're using the same server they had in 1992...
Al Gore invented the internet.
Computer Games - Les Horribles Cernettes
The first band on the web shares their songs freely in mp3 format, with no DRM. Look how far we've come... sigh.
For context, click Parent.
That's what pr0n looked like back then. It is widely known that the Internets were invented to transfer pr0n.
Either there is some poor joe still downloading this foolish thing or we are the first people to see it.
Just wondering, but as The True Origin of The WWW, I suspect they have enough bandwidrh to handle being the subject of a Slashdot article.
Tag lost or not installed.
Why's that lady-on-the-far-right's hand dipped in chocolate?
- A R T
I remember back in the day when people collected images for the mere sake that it looked cool to have a semi-recognizable picture on a computer screen. I can clearly recall calling my parents from the other room to look at Captain Kirk in EGA color and them not being at all as impressed as I was. Or when VGA hit, balloons, and those images of the rose, the clown, and that girl with the hot lips were on every single floppy shareware disc.
Those were weird times. Downloading images from BBS's merely because it was cool to have your monitor display images.
Has anyone ever come across an archive of those old BBS EGA/VGA images?
Three-thousand years of steppe farming and then WHAM, Steam Engines. Nukes. Donkey Kong. (The atom bomb pre-dates Mario. Think about that.)
So pardon me while I pause to reflect on this. Strangely, I find the awe with it all only registers on the intellectual level. The actual, "Wow!" factor feels kind of dead in the water. That's the part which impresses me. Humans adapt to new stuff really well. When the shit hits the fan, I bet there won't be badly dubbed Japanese crowds running amok in the street.
-FL
with my supercollider.
Uh, that dangling pointer?
:-(
I wish it was
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
I was trading files with my friends with a 1200 baud modem and a Mac SE/30 back in '89. That doesn't count. Certainly the "first image" would have had to been linked off a page for it to qualify. Where's the page?
NeXTstep's worldwideweb.app could display _anything_ which one's NeXT system was set up to display and thanks to the magic of Filter Services, .jpg support was trivial.
William
(who still hasn't updated his personal web site to xhtml and css so that he can view it from his Cube)
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
I thought pr0n was what made the internet so popular?
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