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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
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
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
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.
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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
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.
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)
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
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!)
Yeah, he failed because he forgot to mention SCO
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
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?
with my supercollider.