February 26, 2005

Blast from the Past

Silvano de Gennaro of the CERN Musiclub posts what he says was the first image published on the Web (image after the jump; I was going to post it here, but it's so funny that I wanted to build up some drama).

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". I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them to Tim's now famous "info.cern.ch". 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!

I'm assuming it's true, since you can't make up stuff this wonky. Additional discussion and links at Slashdot.

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Posted by johndan at February 26, 2005 11:33 PM | TrackBack